A poll on Claire Byrne Live had some damning figures for Simon Harris.
There’s a severe lack of trust in Minister for Health Simon Harris over his assurances that the Catholic Church will have no influence in medical procedures at the planned new National Maternity Hospital in St Vincent’s.
A poll on Claire Byrne Live of 1,000 people were asked: Do you believe assurances given by the Minister for Health that there will be no Catholic influence over medical procedures at the planned new maternity hospital at St Vincent’s?
Just 23% of people said that they believed Simon Harris’s assurances and a whopping 62% of people said they didn’t believe him. The remainder of those polled were undecided.
86% of those polled believed that the Catholic Church should have no role in maternity services.
It has also emerged that a former master of the National Maternity Hospital, Dr. Peter Boylan, has been urged to stand down from the board of the hospital by deputy chairman Nicholas Kearns.
The request was understood to be made over text at the weekend according to RTE.
Boylan has been vocally opposed to the religious order Sisters of Charity being given ownership of the new €300 million taxpayer-funded hospital because it owns the land where the hospital is being built.
As of this moment, Boylan has not resigned from his seat on the board and will attend a meeting of the board on Tuesday evening.
