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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: When was the conversation that Dr. Boylan had with the archbishop?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: So it was 30 years ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: I am aware of that actually. I would be aware of that and probably more aware of it than most. When was Dr. Boylan master?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: So that is 25 to 30 years ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Much has been-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Yes, but Dr. Boylan talked about the values of Mother Mary Aikenhead and not about Catholic doctrine. There is significant difference. I have no qualms about saying I would have come to this with the same queries as Dr. Boylan. I will return to where we began. He talked about red flags. I think a lot of those were answered yesterday. On women and women's voices, it is vital that they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: I will make a few brief points. I have listened to Dr. Boylan and I know he demands great respect, particularly among women. Nonetheless, I cannot help but think he has pressed all the appropriate buttons in his contribution today that frighten people, particularly in the context of women's health and the hard-fought gains therein. He is frightening them over the independence of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Satisfactory-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: I did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Does Dr. Boylan accept-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: I will skip the preliminaries. I have other questions. I raise the point about the protection against merging with another healthcare group. The Bon Secours model was mentioned. Do the witnesses have any comment on that? In other words, the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group could merge with another foreign or domestic healthcare group. That would strand the NMH to some degree or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: My questions were on the geographical location not meeting population demands and on the seepage from an overcrowded St. Vincent’s University Hospital into the NMH.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: I thank the Chairman, and I thank the officials for their presentations. I have two questions. They relate to a couple of pieces I was reading about France. In the context of the offsets by the Government, my layman's interpretation is that if you throw money at an economy during an inflationary period in terms of wages and things like that, it just helps to drive up the cost of living if...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: It would not be capping them, but maybe restricting the increased levels by saying that you can increase but you cannot go beyond a certain point.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: We do not know this but maybe France does not have an energy regulator so that is out of the hands of Government here in this sense, even though most of the energy companies in France are state-owned. The second piece was about being able to look at the top 120 most important staple retail purchases. Again, France is looking at trying to cap the price of these. Clearly, a retailer could...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: Mr. O'Connor is right. It would be interesting to drill down into this. An Indian friend of mine is one of the hardest-working people I have ever come across. He has worked really hard. He opened an Indian restaurant in Deputy Boyd Barrett's area between Monkstown and Dún Laoghaire. He opened a second restaurant in Sandyford just before the Covid pandemic. He has managed to keep...