Results 19,741-19,760 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: If the group runs into difficulties again, it can mortgage the building of the new hospital. Is that not the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. All I can do is read what is in the first schedule, which refers to the premises as "any buildings erected or to be erected thereon".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: My understanding of that is that it would include the hospital building.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am just reading the schedule; that is all I can go on. The witnesses say the group is a new company now and a secular company etc. I want to ask Mr. Menton whether the Government has asked the group to gift or sell the site to it now that it is a new company and claims it is unencumbered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Has the Government-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am sorry; my question was has the Government asked St. Vincent's Healthcare Group now-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: -----or St. Vincent's Holdings to sell the site?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: It has not asked St. Vincent's Healthcare Group currently in recent weeks or months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the Chairman. I wish to check back on a couple of comments made by Mr. Menton. He stated that the last direct conversation he had about the State purchasing the site was approximately five years ago with Jim Breslin. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Was Mr. Menton present at that meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What was the view of the shareholders at that stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. Menton was not asked directly in recent times about selling the site. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Menton. As regards the offending phrase "clinically appropriate", the Minister is saying he has no issue with putting in a definition or removing that phrase completely. Holles Street has said the same. As I understand it, Mr. Menton is saying the same. I ask that he confirm that he would not have a difficulty with that phrase being removed from all the documents or a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is grand. When I asked about floating charges earlier in the meeting, Mr. Menton indicated that floating charges do not apply to all assets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, but those charges would apply to all other buildings and sites-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: -----currently and in the future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I refer to the issue of the ownership of the building. The first schedule to the lease refers to any buildings on the site. That is what premises means in that context. Under the heading of "landlord mortgaging", the lease refers to St. Vincent's Healthcare Group having covenants with the tenant not to mortgage or charge the landlords freehold interest in the premises, including...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: If the HSE consents to St. Vincent's mortgaging the site and the building, it could do it sooner than 20 years. The other phrase used in this regard refers to such consent not being "unreasonably withheld or delayed". If St. Vincent's gets into serious financial difficulty, as it has been from time to time-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I recall Mr. O'Raghallaigh's previous answer. I also recall clearly that St. Vincent's mortgaged the public hospital to build a private hospital, without any approvals. It does have form in this regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Our guests will be aware that the head of the HSE referred to St. Vincent's private hospital as having a parasitic dependence on the public hospital.