Ellen Coyne

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622 appearances 9 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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The Pat Kenny Show · The Spat between the government and the Rotunda continues. · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

It sought a meeting with Jennifer Carol McNeil, which is interesting because previously it had kind of been in discussions with the HSE rather than with the department.

But in requesting that meeting, it said it wanted the opportunity to basically explain its position, not change its position.

So yesterday, the Department of Health responded, the secretary general responded, not the minister, and effectively said that the minister will not be meeting and will not be agreeing to meet with the board of the Rotunda until it backs down.

Well, I mean, yes, it is correct that without indemnity insurance, a maternity hospital can't operate.

That's the very reason there is no such thing as a private maternity hospital in the country.

And the issue is institutions as a whole are indemnified.

So if there's one consultant who's breaking their contract, you can't take the insurance away from them.

You have to take it away from the hospital as a whole.

Now, all she said was that there was questions over the insurance status.

And we know that's a threat.

But I suppose the other point I would make, or maybe might be made, is that while there's been a lot happening in public over the last two weeks since Professor Daly appeared before the Oireachtas Committee, there were a lot of conversations between Daly and Carol McNeill over the course of the last year.

Apparently, there was actually a warning issued this time last year to the government that the Rotunda had adopted a position where it would be doing things differently.

And we also found out last week that actually apparently the board of the Rotunda made a decision to defy slanted care as far back as September 2024.

So while I know everything has kind of come out in the open very quickly over the last week in particular, this is something that's actually been it's been a debate that's been going on as far back as 2023.

Well, yes.

And I know that if I don't know if any of your listeners have tried to, but if people know that they are not planning to have children, you can't remove maternity benefit from your insurance policy.

So it all feeds into all of our premiums.

It is interesting that as we reported on Saturday, the VHI has actually declined to process two claims for two babies that were born in the rotunda under a consultant who was on a public only contract.

So it's

No, because as far as I understand, it was actually VHI that raised concerns with the Department of Health first rather than the other way around.

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