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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)
John Lahart: I thank the CEO and his team.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Income Inequality (17 May 2022)
John Lahart: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on Ireland’s level of income inequality as found in the recent European Union survey on income and living conditions data, including progress to meet the National Social Target for Poverty Reduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24670/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2022)
John Lahart: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the findings of the most recent European Union survey on Income and living conditions data, including measures in place to support those found to be most at risk of poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24669/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulation (17 May 2022)
John Lahart: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process by which the taxi regulator introduces new regulations; if stakeholder engagement is carried out before new regulations are introduced; if proposed new regulations have to be signed off by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24451/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probate Applications (17 May 2022)
John Lahart: 617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that the Probate Office is not responding to calls from the public or from solicitors; the reason that the office does not return calls that are made to it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24794/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have a couple of really brief initial questions and I hope they require only brief answers. Did the Religious Sisters of Charity insert or attach any religious ethos conditions into the transfer of shares when departing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Did the Vatican try to impose any conditions on St. Vincent's Hospital Group or St. Vincent's hospital before the share transfer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Have the clinicians ever been told to refuse a patient medical treatment on religious grounds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: That is fine. The nuns announced they were gifting the land and then they did not gift the land. Will the witnesses give a brief explanation of what happened there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: People are watching because there is much complexity around the different company structures that have been set up. Watching and listening to the debate, it seems that St. Vincent's hospital owns the land, the National Maternity Hospital will create a new hospital on site-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: That hospital will overlap existing St. Vincent's hospital architecture.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: It makes a lot of sense. Mr. Menton has a background in business and commercial property transactions. It makes sense to establish an entity to govern at the very least the overlapping pieces.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: The integrity of the campus was an issue going back and the witnesses have spoken about it and covered it. As a political point, in 2017, St. Vincent's Hospital Group was not countenancing any sale or lease of part of the land or any separate ownership of a hospital on-site. That goes to what the current Minister, Deputy Donnelly, has achieved. The HSE actually owns the hospital and the...
- 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: Okay. We have dealt with the Vatican papers. One of the witnesses spoke about the model of the Bon Secours group, which was purchased by an international healthcare group. Is that possible here? Is it possible for an international healthcare group to view the entire St. Vincent's hospital campus, including a new national maternity hospital, as one structural entity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: As a result of the 2010 Comptroller and Auditor General report, the HSE has the first option on what, exactly, if there is a decision to sell?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: If the group cannot sell the national maternity hospital, could it sell any of the existing St. Vincent's hospital campus?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Could the national maternity hospital be used as mortgage leverage?
- 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?