Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said that the Government has received legal advice that there is no guarantee a compulsory purchase order (CPO) of the land earmarked for the new National Maternity Hospital site would be successful.
Speaking to reporters in Dublin, Mr Donnelly said that he had received “clear” advice from the Attorney General that there was “absolutely no guarantee that a CPO would succeed”.
“We would need to show that we need to own the land, I would imagine that St Vincent’s, or indeed the courts would say ‘Well you do own the land for the next 300 years’.
