Results 18,061-18,080 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: When is it expected that it will be clarified?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Ms Canavan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister. I will start off on the question of ownership. It is more than two and a half years since the Mulvey agreement was signed off on and every time the Minister or his predecessor has been asked a question since then about what was happening the reply has been that finalisation of the legal agreement is imminent. That has been the reply for the past two and a half years...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I find that hard to accept. It goes way beyond being symbolic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: It is because of the fact that there is no example anywhere in the world that I am aware of where there is a hospital operating under the auspices of a Catholic organisation which performs the full range of women's healthcare services. If the Minister knows of any-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: If the Minister knows of any such hospital anywhere in the world, can he tell us where it is because I am not aware of one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: It is the case that the entire St. Vincent's operation, the entire campus and St. Michael's Hospital remain fully owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity. They have said at some point in the future they will transfer their shareholding into their own holding company. As of now, they still fully own the entire operation. Will the Minister be negotiating with that body? The Minister is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Sorry, I am short of time. I know what was said in the past. It is still the case that the Religious Sisters of Charity are the full owners of St. Vincent's University Hospital. They have said they will relinquish that ownership at some point in the future but it has not happened yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: The point is they still own it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: That share transfer will take place to a successor organisation to the Religious Sisters of Charity-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: -----which will be operating to the same-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: It will be operating-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister tell us who is appointing the holding company that is promised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Which is wholly owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I will repeat my question. Does the Minister know of an example anywhere in the world of a hospital which is owned by a religious organisation or a Catholic organisation, or had been previously on a site owned by a religious organisation, where the full range of women's healthcare services are available? Is he aware of any example of that anywhere because that transfer requires Vatican...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: It has the same ethical code as the Religious Sisters of Charity which is based on the foundress of that religious organisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I know what the constitution states.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I know what it states. Recently-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: That is my understanding of it and because the Minister has not been able to point to any example anywhere in the world, where a Vatican-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)
Róisín Shortall: -----approved transfer allows for the provision of termination services in a hospital. If the Minister can find an example of that, please let the committee know but there is none, as far as I know. The Religious Sisters of Charity issued a statement stating that the full range of healthcare services are available. I have not been able to find anybody who believes that statement. There...