Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Health Minister seems to have run out of patience with voluntary hospitals, including those most dear to the inhabitants of south Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
It is hard to avoid a sinking feeling that the people who sat around the dinner parties of south Co Dublin last weekend saying John Collison was on the money when he called for Ministers to take back power from quangos will be sitting around the same tables this weekend saying the boards of St Vincent’s hospital and the 15 other voluntary hospitals are dead right to tell Jennifer Carroll MacNeill to take a hike. These institutions also include St Vincent’s, the Mater, Beaumont and the main maternity and children’s hospitals.
The attempts of the Minister for Health to imp
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