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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I am thinking about what is in it for the Religious Sisters of Charity. I may be wrong on this. I can think of one other example in my constituency where the Sisters of Mercy did not give land away but sold it at below market value to a local sports club on the basis that it would never be developed residentially and that there would be recourse. It just could not be done. As a result, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Provision is made regarding any of the properties of the public hospital such that the HSE would have first refusal on the sale of those. Is that not correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: For a period of time. It seems there are no Vatican papers. Mr. Menton said the group could not go down the Bon Secours route of a foreign healthcare group coming in and buying the entire site. The group cannot mortgage the new building; it can only mortgage the freehold interest, which is not really worth-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I can take an interpretation put on the Mary Aikenhead values from the extreme end but it seems even a humanist could stand over the values.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: They are not Catholic doctrine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I assume the existing private end to the public hospital will reflect the history of the contribution. All of that cannot be cancelled but the new maternity hospital will have no reference to any of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Why did the nuns not decide to sell the site? They were getting out and they could have sold it to another healthcare group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I presume the religious sisters established the hospital back in the day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: As religious numbers began to diminish, they brought in a lay element to help them run it. Twenty years ago that was set up into the formal St. Vincent's Healthcare Group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Were the nuns there at that stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: They are now gone as board members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I am just trying to be objective. They could say, essentially, that what they have done with having a rent of €10 a year is that this is a gift to the State because there is no cost to it but the State does not own the land in perpetuity. The HSE has a lease on it for 299 years. What was that transition from the Religious Sisters of Charity into the St Vincent's Healthcare Group...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: That evolution from the sisters being exclusively in charge and then the establishment of the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, which essentially took over from the Religious Sisters of Charity-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: That group has a Catholic flavour to it and there is nothing wrong with that. This is what Deputy Bríd Smith was asking about. Is the spirit that permeates that influential in anything the healthcare group does?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I presume the Religious Sisters of Charity believe they have handed their legacy into good hands.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Is it into hands that reflect their particular denominational ethos now? Did it reflect that and does it now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: That is a kind of legacy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: That is an important point. I suppose it is subjective as to whether people believe it or not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: The Religious Sisters of Charity had quite a formidable footprint in healthcare in that part of Dublin. Their numbers were diminishing and they wanted to ensure their legacy in healthcare was not forgotten even though they were handing it over to an organisation and structure that over time would simply reflect the Religious Sisters of Charity's values of dignity and compassion but not their...