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- National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I absolutely intend to take issue with his reassurance.
- National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I am sure he is a lovely man. I do not know him.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that she has had to-date in 2022 with school principals and boards of management with regard to the refined DEIS identification model; if there is a mechanism by which a school can register its criticism of the identification model, particularly in cases in which anomalies may occur; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the July Provision programme which was commenced in 2019 but was paused due to Covid-19; if the review has been recommenced to date; the timeline for the completion of the review; the person or body that is carrying out the review; the terms of reference for the review; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: 316. To ask the Minister for Health when the ban on water births will be lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23907/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the committee for allowing for this possibility. It is very important. I thank Dr. Boylan and Mr. McGarr. They have come in here and have done so in a very modest, moderate way to try to educate us. I appreciate that and all their effort on the ground. I have despaired at various stages of this, but that is for another day. I will to try to clarify some aspects. I have read all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that but we do not own it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: Yes. I have seen it described as just a technical thing. Whether it is or not I want to put a few little things to bed here. It is a leasehold interest, so the HSE or the State will neither own the site nor the hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. McGarr. Moving to the use of the premises, in the context of things that have emerged - and I tried to listen as best I could to what happened yesterday and today - some of the premises will be used for private practice but we do not know how many rooms. Has that emerged?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: It is correct. Is Dr. Boylan is aware of whether that is private practice for the consultants who have both a public and a private contract or is it open to private medicine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. I thank Dr. Boylan. Then there is the co-location. I find it a source of frustration we are continually given the background of the importance of the hospital. That goes without saying. We were first to bring a motion before the Dáil to seek implementation of the national maternity strategy, which was not being implemented, further to a HIQA report that was condemnatory...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. The terminology around clinically permissible and legally permissible has been teased out so I am going to park that for a moment. Various things have been said about red herrings or misinformation. I have tried desperately to get all the information and make sense out of it, so I take issue with comments like that from various doctors, I might add, and various people. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: It is correct. St. Vincent's Holdings is a new company to which the nuns gave their share and it is owned by three directors who are shareholders.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: Okay, and we know nothing about how, in what manner or what conditions were attached to the Religious Sisters of Charity divesting its ownership of whatever it has given over. We know nothing about that, do we?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: That was a condition-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. Thus, at some stage, and Dr. Boylan has mentioned it, the Religious Sisters of Charity said it was giving it as a gift.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: That gift did not materialise-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: -----but what did materialise was a transfer that was confirmed just two or three weeks ago where Religious Sisters of Charity has finally given over its share to St. Vincent's Holdings at the top of the pyramid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: St. Vincent's Holdings would have been enriched immeasurably by that transfer of land.