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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: No. I am not asking about the one that matters; I am asking about St. Vincent's Holdings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: We will get to that one. My questions about the one the Minister says matters will come later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: But the Minister has no say or power of veto in respect of the constitutions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Has the Minister or any other member of the Government a say or power of veto over the appointment of the directors of St. Vincent's Holdings CLG?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Further-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: I have lost my pace now. The three current directors of St. Vincent's Holdings CLG were previously directors of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group DAC as well. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Were they appointed by the board of the healthcare group company at the time when the Religious Sisters of Charity were the shareholders of that company?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Can Dr. Mahony confirm that it is the case that the current directors of St. Vincent's Holdings CLG have the sole right to appoint successor directors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: The terms of reference are such that the company must have directors of St. Vincent's Holdings CLG on its board. It can pick only from directors of St. Vincent's Holdings CLG, so it has no control over who is appointed a director of St. Vincent's Holdings. It just has to accept whoever is there. Am I right in saying, then, that the direction and ethos of that company has the potential to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Currently, the directors of St. Vincent's Holdings CLG have the sole right to appoint successor directors to St. Vincent's Holdings CLG.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Am I right in saying, then, that the direction or ethos of that company has the potential to change and to evolve over time and that the Minister can provide no guarantee as to what direction it may take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: May I-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Yes, my questions about that are coming. I turn now to St. Vincent's Healthcare Group DAC. Can the constitution of that company be amended?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Has the Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: I have a number of other questions. Maybe-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Will the committee undertake to ask them-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: -----of the Department to get answers?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: I sat in the Taoiseach's office in 2016 following a general election as he was making his first attempt to ascend to the position he now holds. We talked at some length about privatisation within healthcare. I remember he used the private Bon Secours hospital in Cork as an example of private healthcare's over-reliance on the public system and the public purse to prop up its operations. He...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: I did not ask that question. I did not ask about ownership.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Thomas Pringle: My question was not about ownership.