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- 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.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: We do not know this but maybe France does not have an energy regulator so that is out of the hands of Government here in this sense, even though most of the energy companies in France are state-owned. The second piece was about being able to look at the top 120 most important staple retail purchases. Again, France is looking at trying to cap the price of these. Clearly, a retailer could...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: Mr. O'Connor is right. It would be interesting to drill down into this. An Indian friend of mine is one of the hardest-working people I have ever come across. He has worked really hard. He opened an Indian restaurant in Deputy Boyd Barrett's area between Monkstown and Dún Laoghaire. He opened a second restaurant in Sandyford just before the Covid pandemic. He has managed to keep...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister and witnesses. The HSE board got some publicity today. Two voices demurred but there are 12 members of the board. The bottom line is the board has approved this, regardless of why and how many members did so. We have heard the views of Fergus Finlay as to why he supported it, but we did not get the view of the other eight or nine members as to why they supported it....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: This boils down to a few issues, that is, ethos, governance and ownership. It is as if the ethos piece has been forgotten because it seems to have been dealt with successfully. Ethos was a big issue two weeks ago for protagonists and opponents. It seems all the concerns and queries around that have been satisfied. Dr. Peter Boylan will be a witness tomorrow so I have no issue making this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: Is that the existing St. Vincent's Hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: That is in the existing St. Vincent's Hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)
John Lahart: It is either the first hospital under Catholic management in the history of the church that allows terminations or it is not a hospital through which a Catholic ethos permeates. It is one or the other.