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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that parents or guardians bringing their child to hospital are already dealing with a very stressful situation for their child, themselves and their family and the idea that coming out of hospital, they could be landed with a bill of €800 for the child's stay in hospital is something we can consign to the dustbin of history. This is exactly what this Bill will do. I will now...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital and Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (1 Jun 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...ensure we will have a state-of-the-art, modern, co-located national maternity hospital that will be able to expand greatly and deepen the services provided. The State will own the hospital and the land for 299 years under leasehold ownership, a common ownership approach with multiple operators, such as apartments. The new hospital will be entirely secular. Its founding rules, contained...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (26 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in which key stakeholders presented to Taskforce members on important topics in women’s health. In November 2019, the topic of ‘Perimenopause and Menopause’ was presented, the video of this presentation is available on gov.ie and YouTube.  The HSE has developed a dedicated landing page - hse.ie/menopause - to improve user experience and accessibility to relevant...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...provide all services. The State, via the Minister for Health, will have the power to directly intervene if the hospital fails to meet these requirements. The State will own the hospital and the land for the next 300 years. This has been confirmed by the HSE, the National Maternity Hospital, St. Vincent's Healthcare Group and the Attorney General. The Government added three decisions...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: If we were building on public land, by definition, there would be no lease.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the first hospitals to provide termination services. It was one of the first sites for the new specialist menopause clinics. It has been involved in many of the new services rolled out around Ireland last year and this year. It is involved in the advances in midwifery-led maternity care, gynaecology, genetics, endometriosis, fertility, mental health and much more. It is also widely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: May I finish the sentence? I want to be respectful of the Deputy's time. St. Vincent's Healthcare Group has been consistent for the past nine years that gifting the land has never been on the table.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I will say one thing before I ask Mr. O'Donoghue to come in. In this proposal, we own the land for the next 300 years. It is a leasehold ownership that we will have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I respect the Deputy's view but disagree with it. It is not an accurate characterisation of what is happening. St Vincent's is not appointing board members to the new NMH because it owns the land. Let us say a third party such as a developer in Dublin owned the land. That developer would not be appointing board members to the new NMH. This is a partnership and, as Dr. Mahony spoke to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...we disagree. It is complex. Of course, an investment of, potentially, €1 billion in a new healthcare campus is complex but the complexity and the governance structures are not based on the land. As Mr. O'Donoghue has said, we have leasehold ownership of the land for the next 300 years. The fact St. Vincent's has freehold ownership of the land and it reverts to it after 300 years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...expressly prohibited in the new national maternity hospital. There is no mechanism for any religious involvement, now or at any time in the future, in either St. Vincent's Healthcare Group or the new national maternity hospital. Ireland does not have a good track record when it comes to religion and women’s reproductive health. It has a poor and dark history. Women are,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The State is the owner of the building. In 300 years' time, the land would revert to St. Vincent's.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that goes back for generations and it is understandable that this mistrust is there. I will make a few quick points as follows. First, a view has been expressed that we could just own the land and the building and that it could be a HSE hospital. We could take the current national maternity hospital out of it and it could be a HSE-run hospital. There are 19 maternity hospitals or units...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: To be clear, I am saying that land ownership has nothing to do with what will go on in the hospitals and that it is not why directors are being appointed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the services. Clearly running it as a HSE hospital is not the answer because that is not providing any guarantees. So where do we go? We know that simply having it as a public hospital on public land run by the HSE by definition does not guarantee it because all the hospitals that are not guarantee it because all the hospitals that are not providing services are that model. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that hospital is contributing because it is selling its building on Holles Street. We are putting in nine new directors and replacing all of those old structures. Right now, we do not own the land under the Holles Street hospital and we do not own the building. The chair of the board is the archbishop of Dublin. There are elected representatives, councillors, on the board but there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The first two questions are around this ask from the Labour Party and others who say they want a State-owned building on State-owned land. I understand fully why people want that. The point I was making previously was that this does not provide the guarantee that people may be demanding because when you look at the remaining maternity hospitals or wards that do not provide them, you can see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Perhaps Mr. Devane or Dr. Mahony could come in on the Mulvey agreement, but I will make one point. The idea that the ownership of the land has anything to do with church influence at this point is simply not true. The church, the nuns, the priests, the rabbis, the imams: none of them are involved. St. Vincent's Healthcare Group is a secular and voluntary healthcare group that we are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Housing Provision (26 Apr 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...called McAuley Court which consists of ten one-bedroom Older Persons units located on the grounds of St Vincent’s Hospital, Athy, County Kildare. At present, four of these units are occupied. The lands on which the Scheme was built are owned by Kildare County Council and the Health Service Executive. This year there are renewed attempts by the HSE, who are working with Kildare...