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

Bríd Smith: Did they sell the shares on to somebody?

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

Bríd Smith: Did they make a lot of money out of that?

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

Bríd Smith: Did they make any money?

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

Bríd Smith: They sold them but made no money.

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

Bríd Smith: Transferred them without selling.

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

Bríd Smith: Please, that is what people want to hear.

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

Bríd Smith: For no money

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

Bríd Smith: For no money. Yes.

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

Bríd Smith: Can one sell something for no money?

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

Bríd Smith: Did the group give them a euro?

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

Bríd Smith: How does one sell something and not get money, or something else be it even a dozen eggs, for it?

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

Bríd Smith: Mr. O'Raghallaigh cannot remember the nominality of it?

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

Bríd Smith: They are now gone out of the picture. Now we have an evolution from religious to nothing. People have sent me photographs in the past hour of crucifixes, mass stands and different items around the hospital. I will again ask Mr. Menton when does the group hope to have all iconography removed from the hospital now that it has evolved into a secular hospital?

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

Bríd Smith: That does not answer my question. That is my second time to ask it. When I ask when that will happen, Mr. Menton could say it would be a month, two months, ten months or ten years. He could answer me that way.

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

Bríd Smith: Grand. In the next two to three months Mr. Menton hopes to have all that religious stuff moved.

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

Bríd Smith: Grand. There was a discussion earlier, and I cannot remember who asked the question, as to whether a member of the board would ever approach a clinician about his or her decision and the response was categorically, no, that would not happen. Could Mr. Menton envisage a situation where a clinician would approach the board about its decision given the very limited laws we have around...

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

Bríd Smith: Does that medical ethics committee have any of the ethics of the original Mother Mary Aikenhead group?

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

Bríd Smith: Could Dr. Holian send that medical ethics constitution to Members of the Oireachtas?

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

Bríd Smith: That would be gratefully received. All the information the witnesses are giving us is very interesting but at some point we need to put pressure on the Government to give us more time to deal with the rest of this stuff. There is a lot of stuff outstanding and a lot of stuff emerging that is causing concern.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Today the Tánaiste said the two weeks that we were given to consider the deal around the new national maternity hospital were given to look at what additional safeguards could be added. That question remains. What additional safeguards can be added? I am standing here because I am sore sitting. We have been sitting at long meetings about this issue all week. I will sit at more of...