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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: The national maternity hospital is subject to a constitution, subject to ministerial direction and subject to the law of the land, not the Vatican.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: I am going to move on. Dr. Boylan also said that the State should own the land on which the hospital is built. We accept that and agree with that. He said that if this is not possible, “any capital investment by the State should only be provided subject to prior agreement on the services that will be delivered.” We have secured that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: This point came up-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: In his opening remarks Dr. Boylan said that "NMH clinicians who say terminations take place at St. Vincent’s must confirm if those are under the terms of the 2018 Act". They have confirmed that. They went as far as they could yesterday without breaching privacy and confidentiality. Does Dr. Boylan accept that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: When was the conversation that Dr. Boylan had with the archbishop?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: So it was 30 years ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: I am aware of that actually. I would be aware of that and probably more aware of it than most. When was Dr. Boylan master?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: So that is 25 to 30 years ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Much has been-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Yes, but Dr. Boylan talked about the values of Mother Mary Aikenhead and not about Catholic doctrine. There is significant difference. I have no qualms about saying I would have come to this with the same queries as Dr. Boylan. I will return to where we began. He talked about red flags. I think a lot of those were answered yesterday. On women and women's voices, it is vital that they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: I will make a few brief points. I have listened to Dr. Boylan and I know he demands great respect, particularly among women. Nonetheless, I cannot help but think he has pressed all the appropriate buttons in his contribution today that frighten people, particularly in the context of women's health and the hard-fought gains therein. He is frightening them over the independence of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Satisfactory-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: I did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Does Dr. Boylan accept-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: I will skip the preliminaries. I have other questions. I raise the point about the protection against merging with another healthcare group. The Bon Secours model was mentioned. Do the witnesses have any comment on that? In other words, the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group could merge with another foreign or domestic healthcare group. That would strand the NMH to some degree or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
John Lahart: My questions were on the geographical location not meeting population demands and on the seepage from an overcrowded St. Vincent’s University Hospital into the NMH.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: I thank the Chairman, and I thank the officials for their presentations. I have two questions. They relate to a couple of pieces I was reading about France. In the context of the offsets by the Government, my layman's interpretation is that if you throw money at an economy during an inflationary period in terms of wages and things like that, it just helps to drive up the cost of living if...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: It would not be capping them, but maybe restricting the increased levels by saying that you can increase but you cannot go beyond a certain point.