Results 4,401-4,420 of 6,020 for speaker:Martin Conway
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Martin Conway: Mr. Watt appreciates how important the matter is and how it is exercising the public. It is important for a maternity hospital to be built that is fit for purpose. There is much concern in particular about whether the Vatican gave consent for the transfer of the lands. The Minister was asked that and he did not answer the question this morning. There are issues and I do not apologise for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)
Martin Conway: From my point of view anyway, I would like to be disassociated with any comments about corruption. I just do not agree.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Heritage Centres (10 May 2022)
Martin Conway: As always, the Minister of State is welcome. This issue has been ongoing since the Shannon Airport Authority decided that it no longer had a strategic interest in Shannon Heritage. The questions then were what would happen to Shannon Heritage's facilities and under whose auspices would they be. King John's Castle has been transferred to Limerick City and County Council, which is a good fit....
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Heritage Centres (10 May 2022)
Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to take this matter on behalf of the Minister for Transport. I accept people's bona fides in this. I accept the fact that there is an interdepartmental working group, which is absolutely the correct way to go about this, but there is a bottom line, which is that the taking over of the Shannon Heritage sites in County Clare cannot result in a...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Martin Conway: The schools building programme in this country has been very successful over the past number of years but many more schools are needed. I have a concern that I know is shared with colleagues, which is that come 4 p.m., many of our fantastic school buildings cease being in use. The Department of Education really must formulate a strategy to use these well-funded and beautiful public...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: Speaking of our new Ukrainian friends, the Cabinet subcommittee will be meeting today to review where we are at. We now have 29,000 Ukrainians living in Ireland. Many of these are children who are going to school and who have little English. There is also a quite a number of Ukrainians who were teachers in Ukraine. They have good English and are working in schools doing translation. Yet,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: I thank our guests for coming. I know it was at short notice but it was important for us to have an engagement with them. I have been aware of the work of Dr. Boylan for many years and would like to acknowledge it. The women of Ireland very much appreciate what he has done over the years. Are all legally available services, including termination of pregnancy, being provided in Holles...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: What is Dr. Boylan's response when practically all of the midwives in that hospital are in favour of building a new national maternity hospital and do not in any way feel they will be compromised or that the services they are providing at the moment will not be provided in that new national maternity hospital? In addition to that are the managers of the 19 maternity services around the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: It is important to put on the record that the chair of the board of Holles Street hospital is the Archbishop of Dublin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: I suggest the same thing will happen in the new national maternity hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: No. The Sisters of Charity will have no active role, part or active engagement, high up or low down. They will just let the facility do what it is expected to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: Mr. Boylan made a very important point that he has not seen - none of us have - the correspondence between the Vatican and St. Vincent's.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: Where did Mr. Boylan see what he quoted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: We had a four-and-a-half-hour engagement yesterday with the Minister and his legal people. We were told that, for their own reasons, which include the fact that St. Vincent's is a campus with a number of healthcare facilities on it, and corridors in the new hospital will be interlinked and so on, they did not believe it was practical to gift it. It is not on the table. It will not happen....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: Does Mr. Boylan accept that a 299-year lease is probably the longest lease that has ever been given to any entity in this country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: I am not expecting Mr. Boylan to be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: I will go back to the point I made earlier, which is that is clearly not an option that is on the table. Everyone on this committee wants the State to buy the land. The ideal scenario is it would be a freehold and in State ownership for eternity, but that is not an option. I am trying to figure out from what Mr. Boylan is saying, with the two options of being able to purchase it and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: It is not for sale. That is the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Martin Conway: The Minister was before the committee yesterday. The land is not for sale. We cannot buy something that is not for sale. We cannot go down the compulsory purchase route because it would set the project back another ten years. I am again putting it to Mr. Boylan that it is not an option. Where is his solution since that is not an option?