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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That would return to market rent at that point. We would have a contract for the 210 years with market rent payable to St. Vincent's Healthcare Group if the State chose not to. There is no exit mechanism.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: If it does not, it pays market rent for the remaining period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I wish to pick up on the chair's point. He mentioned that significant risk to patient care was being given as the reason. I am not clear why that would not be the case with a HSE or other hospital that had a co-operation agreement. We were told it was about the distance, but a publicly owned hospital built on that site would be a situation. We heard it was about doctors co-operating, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is my final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: They are being dealt with by St. James's and the national children's hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The group would not co-operate with a different model in the same way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My point on the chairmanship was lost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I asked about the chairmanship but my question was not heard. The HSE is the tenant, but is there an inappropriateness in the landlord being chairman of the hospital, which is subject to these leasehold agreements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We have discussed that and I am conscious of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: On a point of clarification, there was reference to services in the context of the lease. Are those services provided by St. Vincent's Hospital Group guaranteed in the lease in the same manner as the maternity hospital services are guaranteed in the lease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There is no guarantee, in a legal sense, in respect of those services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My apologies.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We had an initial discussion on this in which I highlighted my concerns regarding amendment No. 23. I said that while I knew there were concerns within the specifics of the proposal put forward by Sinn Féin colleagues, I explained the understanding and reason people have for not wanting it to be limited, but wanting to name many forms of personal data. It is from a long record of a...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is the Minister confident about the conflict I identified previously whereby somebody would have the right to make a data subject access request under Article 15 when seeking information about who may have made inquiries about them? Is he sure there is no danger of a clash or curtailment in that regard?

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I apologise if I am delaying matters but we will not have the chance to clarify this in the same way on Report Stage. If somebody is to make a data subject access request on information and they seek information on who has made inquiries into them during a period of time when they were a child in an institution, is it the case that the provisions of this legislation would not in any way...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We may as well move on to the other sections but it is not really about whether article 15 will be limited. The question is whether there will be a danger of article 15 being interpreted in relation to this Act, which is slightly different. There is an article 15 process but you do not want an article 15 process which does not look to each data subject access request but in fact looks to a...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 24: In page 12, line 21, to delete “Regulation;” and substitute the following: “Regulation. For the avoidance of doubt, personal data as defined under the Regulation includes, in relation to a relevant person under this Act, all records relating to the adoption or informal care arrangement of a relevant person, regardless of whether that data is...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 25: In page 13, line 14, after “incorrect” to insert “or illegal”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 26: In page 14, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(j) any person or organisation involved in facilitating adoptions, or family separation;”. Amendments Nos. 26 to 28, inclusive, all refer to expanding the definition of "secondary information source". Currently, there is a list of various Departments, registered adoption societies and...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I appreciate that the Minister has the power to designate but I am concerned that he, or whichever other Minister down the line, may choose not use that power. There is no guarantee for the Oireachtas or the Seanad that the Minister will, in fact, designate religious orders or psychiatric institutions. I am concerned that the tone of the Minister's response seems to suggest a kind of...