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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: However, it is not subject to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: I appreciate that, but it concerns the present situation. Things may change in the future. This is the point I have been making regarding the long-term lease and structure of the board of management. In other words, what the Minister has said applies today but I refer to what might happen in future. Several clinicians around the country have refused to carry out the procedures concerned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: To clarify, it would be due to a lack of professional expertise in a particular faculty on that site and the hospital just not dealing with such aspects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: That is fine. I presume that conversation is being undertaken to change the number of board members in the State's favour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: How much has the State invested in St. Vincent's University Hospital? Does the Minister happen to know offhand? How much has that been annually in recent years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: In essence, therefore, this is a State hospital. It is like our schools and things like that. I suspect it is completely State funded, except for private practice and such aspects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: No. I have about a minute and a half left and I will move to another point. I do not understand the structure of St. Vincent's University Hospital. Should terminations be available at St. Vincent's University Hospital as it is now? Is that a service which should be available there or is it a service that just cannot be available there, as a matter of interest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: Right now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: Have any terminations taken place in St. Vincent's University Hospital then, given that it is not a service that is precluded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: That is fine. Returning to €300 million of State money provided to the hospital annually, and this may be a frivolous thought on my part, but could the State just nationalise the hospital? Whatever about a compulsory purchase order, CPO, process, could the State just nationalise the hospital, since it funds it entirely?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: Sure. We are already putting a vast amount of money into the hospital annually. I refer to the €300 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: This is not a point I am making to get at the Minister. He is a very good colleague of mine. It is a bigger question, I suppose, in respect of his position as Minister. What goes to the heart of any concerns I have is that the State, in essence, runs this hospital. It has done so since the numbers of religious have diminished over the years. The State invests a colossal amount of money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: I welcome the Minister. He has my support during a tricky time in terms of the new regulations. If you can tease out the different details, there is broad acceptance among the public of the need for them, especially when on considers the international context relating to the variant. A number of weeks ago, the Taoiseach, in the context of delaying the relaxations, mentioned that the Delta...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: 79. To ask the Minister for Health the reason so few of pharmacists in the Dublin 6W and Dublin 24 areas are administering a vaccine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37547/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if all persons in the 60 to 69 cohort that received a first dose of a vaccine (details supplied) will have received the second by 19 July 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37546/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (13 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: 304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason an organisation (details supplied) has received no response or acknowledgement to its submission in January 2021 for funding for the refurbishment of an arena. [37373/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Citizens' Assembly (13 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration is being given to the need to set a date for the citizens' assembly on biodiversity loss before 16 July 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37372/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: 437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements that are available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37272/21]