The NMH at St. Vincents

Is there something "fly off the handle" about my original post. I believe I even began asking the questions of what should be on a board. I have since learned that there are 26 members and 8 are medical. I didn't even mention anything negative about Noirin, I merely posited that medical staff are different than gardai.

"What should the board makeup of a hospital be? I would have assumed some people with actual medical experience would be important to have any context of the problems and available tools in a medical environment? I am not so sure how doctors would operate under a police like management structure. Many of them are clinical researchers and teaching physicians and would have the ability to move easily to other high paying jobs and internationally, too much stick and little carrot won't work for them. Completely different resources to the gardai. I guess you also need a good accountant and a politician."

Noreen O'Sullivan is an excellent choice if you want dishonest board members who are incompetent and good at smear campaigns. I suppose the other board members will get any penalty points quashed too?

Only in Ireland would this nonsense be accepted.

Well delayed the start of the work to be strictly accurate, not a brick laid yet AFAIK.

According to a live discussion programme on RTE right now, there is what seemed to be a settlement between the SVHG board and the Dept of Health over membership of the new SVHG board [an alternative three members] and the lease of the new NMH building to the state for either 100 or 200 years reported on in todays Irish Times. However the RTE host has also mentioned that Dr Boylan has objected to what has been reported, saying the NMH situation hasn't changed. The Labour Party member on the RTE discussion group has just made similar objections to the way the NMH is proposed to be managed, saying its time that the religious and vested parties should get out of the proposed new NMH completely. I haven't got a link to the I/T article as I want to get a print copy of it to read what the actual article has in it before I post any statement on what is actually in the I/T article.

It looks like the new proposal is an attempt by the Govt to distract the public with the extended lease to convince people that the actual owners [the nuns] will not have any continuing behind-the-scenes connections with either SVHG and or the site apparently handed over to SVHG. Dr Boylan has made it plain that the situation will stay fouled up until the site is completely free of any vestige of RC ethical control [overt or covert] and the Labour party seem to have taken the same position. I believe its more lies and a smoke and mirror job again by the RC church with the assent of the Govt coalition. The lies of mother church are coming home to roost with the sisters. Coincidentally the public is distracted with how the state {the Govt and the HSE] are handling the Covid-19 situation, all eyes taken off the activities over ethical control of the NMH site on the SVHG property.

Just wish they would bloody just get on with it , ignore all the naysayers and wackos ,and just build it already.

Notb a patch on these ones in fairness

There is a thread OP but surprisingly hasn't attracted any traffic since last year

As I said earlier this is now a done deal and will go ahead during the next week.

The battle is over and nobody is saying we don't need a new hospital.

Instead of attacking the motives of those who oppose the Elm Park site why not ask ourselves why the NMH and the Children's Hospital were not co-located with the Connolly Hospital on the 50acres owned by the state with plenty of room for expansion?

Most people give birth in the nearest non private hospital , theres not much choice involved. Abortion is now legal in Ireland. I presume if a womans life is in danger she will be allowed to get an abortion. My theory is maybe 10 per cent of people in Ireland are actually Catholics, the rest go along with it because most schools are still owned by the Catholic Church. More people in small towns, in rural areas go to mass most people in dublin don't bother going. I don't know if medical procedures are decisions will be effected by the fact the hospital is on land owned by the Nuns