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ONE OF THE most recognisable buildings in Ireland’s capital, Baggot Street Hospital on the city’s southside, is set to go under the hammer.
The HSE has commissioned property specialists Savills to bring the iconic building to the market.
While the hospital is situated in as prime a real estate area as the city has to offer, the deal will be quite an unusual one in that the HSE are demanding the provision of a 3,300 square metre primary care centre either on the existing site or elsewhere in the city.
This could see the HSE either maintain a lease within the building itself post-sale or consider a part exchange of another suitable building should the buyer wish to have the original building fully vacant.
Definitely not your common or garden sale.
With this in mind no specific guide price for the hospital has been named. Savills have suggested that the property, if fully vacant, could expect to fetch €14 million.
The hospital, famous for its red and black terracotta facade, was originally founded in 1831 by doctors from the Royal College of Surgeons, with the institution expanding over time to occupy numbers 14-18 Baggot Street.
The building became the Royal City of Dublin Hospital in 1900 following a visit by Princess Alexandra, daughter of Queen Victoria who was visiting Ireland at the time.
Since 1986, when it ceased to be an acute general hospital, the building has been known as Baggot Street Hospital. This was also when it became entrusted to the HSE.
“The HSE see this as an existing opportunity to develop primary care and community services in the central Dublin area,” said Savills in a statement.
What will become of the building is currently a matter of speculation, but with several international investors showing interest already a hotel or office block conversion would seem the most likely projects.
Savills’ John Swarbrigg, the agent handling the sale, told TheJournal.ie that the building “suits a multitude of purposes”.
I wouldn’t like to pigeon-hole it really, the zoning is quite broad so you could be talking an office building, high-end apartments, or a hotel.
Swarbrigg expects strong interest in the building due to “the uniqueness and quality of the offering, combined with very favourable dynamics in the residential, office and hotel markets in Dublin”.
We are expecting to attract substantial interest from investors across the globe, with a number of local and international investors already having made approaches.
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A million is too much to get accurate figures on sexual violence affecting Irish citizens? But 5 million on PR is just fine?
Is Mary Lou really saying she would rather invest a million in research than services? How many reports are there now gathering dust?
@lavbeer: it’s not either/or, we can do both. The SAVI report never gathered dust anyway, it has been used extensively by all agencies working to combat child sexual abuse. 1 million is a drop in the ocean compared to the billion the State has had to pay to the victims of institutional child abuse. A small spend now will go a long way to saving money down the line
Perhaps im just jaded…..but this seems like a political stunt to bring the female vote back for Leo…….after hes put his foot in it a couple of times on the repeal issue….
@Dearbhla Russell: DRCC and other groups have been seeking that SAVI be updated but Minister for Justice resisted.
In light of recent developments, including Tom Humphries, accurate measurement is seen as now required. There may well be political expedience at play but SAVI update is needed.
And if they could get back to him in a year or two that would be fine
Look at that Muslim Brotherhood supporter beside him in the photo. Wonder what their views on sexual violence are? Oh! I know. They approve and recommend it.
It is not a question of either €1 million on an update on SAVI 1 or spending this on vital services. It is not either/or. It is both/and.
An update on SAVI 1, a reasonably measurement of the problem, can guide in whether an increase in the allocation to support services is required, how and where funding should be allocated, how best to reduce the problem of sexual violence in Ireland and to better guide criminological policy in this area.
We need to do far more as a society to prevent sexual violence in Ireland and to support the unfortunate past and present victims of sexual violence in Ireland.
Prevent, address and try to rectify. First, gain an accurate measurement of causes, extreme, impacts and critically assess current reporting, detection, protection, sentencing, preventative and restorative measurements.
The experts in this area, including the DRCC and various criminologists, have all advised of the urgent need for an update to SAVI 1. Now is the time to get on with it.
The country needs updating with a better honest leader!
SAVI 1 needs to be updated so as to measure the estimated size of the problem. Many victims never report sexual violence offences to An Garda Siochana. There are reasons for this. Addressing a problem depends on accurate measurement of the true extent of the problem at present.
Your grammar needs TO BE UPDATED.
The SAVI Report and it’s methodology have been totally discredited, which is why it has never been revisited in all this time – untill now of course.
It was based upon the European FRA Report and the technique pioneered by Mary Koss, a feminist researcher who felt that official government unbiased reports didn’t provided the results she wanted so she set up her own surveys designed to adjust the figures to provide statastics more suitable to her ideology. She admitted in 1992 she surveys were flawed.
White Ribbon campaigns in several other countries have been totally discredited for several reasons with the governments of Canada and Australia noticing that they were being used to funnel the vast majority of money into salaries.
The SAVI report used a similar methodology and showed that 42% of Irish women and 28% of Irish men reported some form of sexual abuse. Almost a third of women and one in five men experienced sexual abuse in childhood with more than a quarter of women and one in ten of men experiencing it in adulthood.
This research has been based upong the idea that women and men don’t know what things like ‘stalking’, ‘violence’ and ‘rape’ mean and need a feminist expert to interpret for them and fill out the forms.
The SAVI Report – 2001 – contains the word ‘ABUSE’ one thousand six hundred and one times (1601). Is that not enough? Do you need an update, when you don’t even believe or act on official findings and data !
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