The Green Party has suspended two TDs – Neasa Hourigan and Patrick Costello  who voted in favour of a Sinn Féin motion which calls for the new National Maternity Hospital to be fully public and located on publicly owned land.

Senator Pippa Hackett, Minister of State of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

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