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From Crux:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Catholic hospitals in Ireland could be asked to remove crucifixes and other religious symbols from rooms with non-Catholic patients, according to a new report issued on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The report was issued by an independent review group led by former European Union official Catherine Day, which was asked to look into the relationship between the Irish state and Church-run hospitals.<\/p>\n

There are a dozen Catholic hospitals in the Republic of Ireland, all of which receive state funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recommend that organisations should be cognisant of the impact of decor on patients\/service users and strive to ensure that their personal preferences in this regard are met to the greatest extent possible,\u201d the Day report said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Newstalk FM, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the report wasn\u2019t going to force hospitals to remove religious symbols from the public areas of their facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a campaign from the Government or anyone around removing cribs or crucifixes or statues of Our Lady \u2013 that\u2019s not what\u2019s going to happen. But it is a message to charities and voluntary bodies that do run hospitals and schools just to have regard to these things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the 21st century, things have changed, a lot of patients, a lot of kids aren\u2019t religious, maybe aren\u2019t Roman Catholic, and the ethos of an institution that\u2019s publicly funded should reflect the public, not just any one section of the public,\u201d Varadkar told the radio station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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