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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: If it is possible, could the witnesses answer the question on options for the State to exit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Menton mentioned another negotiation, which concerns me. As it seems in the lease there is simply a requirement that there would be maternity hospitals and that if there is not a maternity hospital, there is a return to the €850,000 rent, which is the actual rent that is waived and reduced to €10. We mentioned earlier when that might apply. Permitted use is one of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I think the terms of the lease were considerably worse than anybody expected when that was being discussed, in terms of the €850,000 liability, potentially, if the State does not continue to have hospitals on that ground.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We keep saying that to use it as a hospital is the obligation. The obligation is permitted use, which includes reference to using it as a hospital and includes reference to clinically appropriate, so just permitted use-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That would return to market rent at that point. We would have a contract for the 210 years with market rent payable to St. Vincent's Healthcare Group if the State chose not to. There is no exit mechanism.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: If it does not, it pays market rent for the remaining period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I wish to pick up on the chair's point. He mentioned that significant risk to patient care was being given as the reason. I am not clear why that would not be the case with a HSE or other hospital that had a co-operation agreement. We were told it was about the distance, but a publicly owned hospital built on that site would be a situation. We heard it was about doctors co-operating, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is my final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: They are being dealt with by St. James's and the national children's hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The group would not co-operate with a different model in the same way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My point on the chairmanship was lost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I asked about the chairmanship but my question was not heard. The HSE is the tenant, but is there an inappropriateness in the landlord being chairman of the hospital, which is subject to these leasehold agreements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We have discussed that and I am conscious of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: On a point of clarification, there was reference to services in the context of the lease. Are those services provided by St. Vincent's Hospital Group guaranteed in the lease in the same manner as the maternity hospital services are guaranteed in the lease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There is no guarantee, in a legal sense, in respect of those services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I would begin by saying I am so sad to hear that last piece. Ms Exton spoke about pleasure. Dancing is one of the great pleasures in life that gives people a sense of their body and enjoying it. For me, it was a really empowering thing to go dancing and raving when I was young, from when I about 15 or 16 years old. It was really important to me because I got a sense of owning and enjoying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Byrne came to it at the end and it is the question of teacher training. There is an emphasis around managing the classroom sometimes. I was in a school that had just become co-educational and I was one of six or seven girls in a class of 35. I am very pushy though. There is the question of not just simply managing the classroom but having the responsibility to elicit and support all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I would like to return to the phrase "clinically appropriate". The nub of the term "permitted use" is that we have clinically appropriate and legally permissible services. I thank Mr. McGarr for highlighting the fact that the argument we have heard for "clinically appropriate" is that it would indicate that they should be services appropriate to a maternity hospital but that is, as Mr....