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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Will the Chair let me come back in? I have to go out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry about that. It was an awful fit of coughing there. It does not look good in this Covid era. I hope I have protected the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: There is, however, a more serious question on which I need clarification. Mr. Stephen Dodd SC provided a briefing for Uplift. Dr. Boylan has probably seen it. In part of it, Mr. Dodd SC talks about what I am getting at here. The religious history, the mistrust and all of that that we have all spoken about is a big part of it but I am beginning to think that this is more about mammon than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: The reason I was interested in it was because of that statement yesterday from Professor Deirdre Madden and Dr. Sarah McLoughlin. They are really concerned about the independent review that was established by then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, in 2018 and the outcome of that review that Dr. Catherine Day was involved in, which recommended in strong terms that it is far better for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Is it not in the design yet or in the maps?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank Dr. Boylan and thank the Chair.

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

Bríd Smith: I am substituting for Deputy Gino Kenny. I thank all the witnesses for the work they do and for coming along here today. I have to say that I feel that we are in the middle of something really weird. Drip-fed bits of information keep coming at us, as elected politicians. We are not getting the full truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. For example, the Minister has just...

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

Bríd Smith: Before she comes in, I will make a point. Everything the Minister says conflicts with the fact sheet from the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group. The Minister says we own the land but the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group says that it owns the land. The Minister asks what interest the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group has but it says that it has an interest in it. The St. Vincent's Healthcare Group...

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

Bríd Smith: The St. Vincent's Healthcare Group says something different. The Minister and the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group are singing from different hymn sheets and that does not help. Could the Minister have a meeting with the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, sit down and ask why it is saying one thing when we are saying another and why it says it owns it when we say it does not? I ask the Minister...

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

Bríd Smith: Please. Yes.

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

Bríd Smith: It is not always in a habit.

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

Bríd Smith: My time is up so I want to make a couple of remarks before I finish. Fair play to Ms Brosnan for having such confidence that she can guarantee the future of women's healthcare in terms of abortion in this country. Nobody in the United States can guarantee it for women in America and they have had it long, long before we have had it. While I have a minute, I want to thank Professor...

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

Bríd Smith: Somebody did use it but nobody here.

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

Bríd Smith: I think we all accept that.

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

Bríd Smith: It is not my language.

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

Bríd Smith: Exactly. Absolutely.

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

Bríd Smith: No. I did not say that I do not trust everybody. The Minister is making it out that I cannot deal with anybody.

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

Bríd Smith: That is not what I am saying.

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

Bríd Smith: We are about to deal with the question of the hospitals and the GPs that do not provide that service under the abortion review.

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

Bríd Smith: There are three different constitutions here.