Governance of new hospital

Dear Editor, I may be wrong on this but my recollection is that two years or so ago, the Theological Institute of the Jesuits in Milltown, Dublin was transferred to Trinity College. Inevitably, the college authorities required that the governance of the new faculty should rest in the hands of the college.

That seems fair enough. Why then should the governance of any institution, faculty or department that is placed within St Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH) escape the governance of the authorities of SVUH which ultimately awards degrees in the name of UCD?

What happens to say the new Children’s Hospital which is to be placed not only on the campus of St James’ Hospital, but where any degrees awarded anywhere in St James are under the name of Trinity?

Yours etc.,

Gerald Murphy, Dublin 16.