Monday’s Oireachtas health committee meeting salvaged the previously disappointing record of TDs and senators in scrutinising the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) co-location project on St Vincent Hospital’s Elm Park campus, ahead of an expected cabinet decision this Tuesday. There was less re-hashing of already answered questions surrounding the now completed severing of ties between the Religious Sisters of Charity and St Vincent’s Healthcare Group (SVHG), or speculation about “Vatican papers” that may or may not exist; and more questioning in the one area where clarification remained necessary to protect taxpayers’ interests in the project: the security Bank of Ireland holds…

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