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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister and witnesses. The HSE board got some publicity today. Two voices demurred but there are 12 members of the board. The bottom line is the board has approved this, regardless of why and how many members did so. We have heard the views of Fergus Finlay as to why he supported it, but we did not get the view of the other eight or nine members as to why they supported it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: This boils down to a few issues, that is, ethos, governance and ownership. It is as if the ethos piece has been forgotten because it seems to have been dealt with successfully. Ethos was a big issue two weeks ago for protagonists and opponents. It seems all the concerns and queries around that have been satisfied. Dr. Peter Boylan will be a witness tomorrow so I have no issue making this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: Is that the existing St. Vincent's Hospital?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: That is in the existing St. Vincent's Hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: It is either the first hospital under Catholic management in the history of the church that allows terminations or it is not a hospital through which a Catholic ethos permeates. It is one or the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: My time is over but I will make this point, especially to people who are watching. Most of the emails I have had regarding this in the past one to two months, related to the justifiable and legitimate fear of women of church interference, or the interference of a religious ethos, in respect of any procedures they are entitled to under law. We seem to have forgotten that very quickly because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: Can Ms Higgins explain that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: I respect that. That comes under clinical appropriateness.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: I appreciate the Minister's reply and I want to acknowledge the sterling work being done by officials in the Department, under immense pressure, to deal with the conveyor belt of applications coming in. The Minister referred to 88,000 first-time applications this year, which is a pretty phenomenal figure. The fact that 400,000 passport applications have been made in the year to date when...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: I have a list, just from today, of criticisms, the main one being that the facility is simply unavailable. Again, I appreciate the pressure staff and officials are under but I ask the Minister to address that matter too.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: 82. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications from Dublin that are currently outstanding; the planning that is being carried out to ensure that there is no repeat of the delays with applications experienced in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22893/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: My question concerns the number of outstanding passport applications from Dublin and the planning carried out to ensure that there is no repeat of the delays with applications experienced in 2021.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: It was addressed in 2016.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Travel (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent visit to Kyiv; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the one-stop-shop in respect of the national retrofitting scheme will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22627/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the practice of banks of charging negative interest charges to client accounts held on behalf of clients by solicitors who have their office accounts charged by the banks and have to pass on these negative interest rate charges to their clients as a consequence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22625/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in assembling an appeals board in respect of the primary medical certificate; the plans that are in place in respect of the backlog of those awaiting an appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22632/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that the Registry of Deeds Office has not opened since March 2020; and the reason that the Registry of Deeds Office does not open now; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22624/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: 383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons accessing emergency accommodation in Dublin who are not on a local authority housing list in Dublin.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23450/22]