Results 941-960 of 1,730 for speaker:Aisling Dolan
- Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: The Minister will come in again at the end. I thank Senator Higgins. I remind Members that all contributions should be made through the Chair.
- Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I thank Senator Boyhan. Since there are no other speakers, perhaps the Minister would like to respond.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I thank Senator Murphy for his very kind invitation to visit the National Famine Museum in Strokestown. It is a phenomenal facility. We got a chance to view it on Sunday. For anyone who is visiting and travelling around as part of their summer holidays, I suggest that they take time to stop off at Strokestown, to explore and to learn what our history means. As the Taoiseach has said, it...
- Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: The excitement of elections is something we should never forget.
- Seanad: Childcare Provision: Statements (17 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I thank the Minister for being with us today. A little bit of the feedback I have been getting locally on the funding models we are seeing in childcare, and perhaps the Minister might comment a little on it, has been around the idea that smaller childcare providers can still survive with this new funding model. I know it may be challenging in terms of having to expand their premises or...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: This morning, I attended a briefing at and tour of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, with the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, Professor Shane Higgins, the master of the hospital, Ms Mary Brosnan, the director of midwifery, the senior clinical team, and other Members of the Oireachtas. The hospital building dates from the 1930s. There are two wards, one with 15 rooms....
- Seanad: Media Report on Governance in Local Authorities: Statements (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke. I was elected as a Galway county councillor. As with Senator Flynn. it was a brand new world for me.I had little understanding of what is done by a local authority. It was a steep learning curve to understand how the local authority in any particular county, such as, for example, Galway County Council, is involved in so many aspects of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I wish to follow up on some of the points that have been raised. May I ask our legal expert, Mr. McGarr, whether Holles Street is currently on a freehold lease?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: Is Holles Street owned by the State then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: How many hospitals or medical facilities in the country are owned by the State?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: Can Mr. McGarr give an estimate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: Who owns the voluntary hospitals and the ground on which they stand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: Does that impact the types of operations currently conducted at Holles Street? Have the medical operations we are speaking about been impacted by the hospital's being on a long-term lease?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: As for the lease, though, the State does not own the site on which Holles Street currently stands.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: Dr. Boylan was master at that hospital. Can operations be conducted at the hospital irrespective of the ownership of the ground on which the hospital stands?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: Operations can happen there irrespective of who owns the land. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: The hospital is not owned by the State as such. It involves a long-term lease.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I understand. Will Mr. McGarr explain to me the difference between the long-term lease and the freehold lease for 299 years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. McGarr but I wish to go back to my questions. Mr. McGarr said Holles Street is on a long-term lease. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Aisling Dolan: Currently, the site at Holles Street is a long-term lease and it does not have an impact on the types of operation that can take place at the hospital.