Jun 8, 2026 · 46 min · 13 segments
Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris joins Monday with Gavan Reilly for a wide-ranging interview on three of the biggest stories of the week. The Rotunda Hospital has climbed down in its…
Gavan ReillyHost
Simon HarrisGuest
Bríd SmithPanelistAustin HughesPanelistEllen CoynePanelist
We're joined now by political correspondent with The Irish Times, Ellen Coyne, by economist Austin Hughes, and by the former People Before Profit-Solidarity TD, uh, Brid Smith.
You can scan the QR code that's appearing on your screen right this moment, uh, to send us a message via WhatsApp.
Um, before we get into, uh, the, the return on everything else, Brid, I, I imagine you must be thrilled that the Fine Gael Minister for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown has gone to bat and so successfully argued down the gilded consultants in favor of a fundamentally leftist idea such as equality in healthcare.
Well, it was an, an extraordinary, um, interview that she did with, um, on RTE because, I mean, she's one of the most right-wing- Class conscious, class conscious of our own class people in Dáil Éireann.
Um, and I think she's probably trying to smell the coffee of slightly more left kind of ideas about social democracy in this country.
Um, but what she has taken on in terms of the National Maternity Hospital is interesting, because maternity is the one area in medicine that doesn't have its own hospital.
And so, like, the, what she's taken on now is kind of to champion the idea, possibly, in the future, of a, of, of a national maternity hospital that's a private maternity hospital.
And it seems that what was going on was when a private consultant wasn't available in an emergency, a public consultant-
We're joined now by political correspondent with The Irish Times, Ellen Coyne, by economist Austin Hughes, and by the former People Before Profit-Solidarity TD, uh, Brid Smith.
You can scan the QR code that's appearing on your screen right this moment, uh, to send us a message via WhatsApp.
Um, before we get into, uh, the, the return on everything else, Brid, I, I imagine you must be thrilled that the Fine Gael Minister for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown has gone to bat and so successfully argued down the gilded consultants in favor of a fundamentally leftist idea such as equality in healthcare.
Well, it was an, an extraordinary, um, interview that she did with, um, on RTE because, I mean, she's one of the most right-wing- Class conscious, class conscious of our own class people in Dáil Éireann.
Um, and I think she's probably trying to smell the coffee of slightly more left kind of ideas about social democracy in this country.
Um, but what she has taken on in terms of the National Maternity Hospital is interesting, because maternity is the one area in medicine that doesn't have its own hospital.
And so, like, the, what she's taken on now is kind of to champion the idea, possibly, in the future, of a, of, of a national maternity hospital that's a private maternity hospital.
And it seems that what was going on was when a private consultant wasn't available in an emergency, a public consultant-
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