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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. O'Raghallaigh has answered. That is okay. I am happy with what he has said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Going back to Mr. Menton, the group's debt situation is pretty bad now. I am sure he would accept that. It looks like it is going to get worse because the group has had debt relief for the past two years as a result of Covid. That debt relief will run out later this year. Is that not the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: How long is that debt relief lasting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am sorry; I am under pressure with time. I need Mr. Menton to answer the specific question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am sorry; I am asking Mr. Menton about the debt relief as a result of Covid-19. Is that due to run out this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I just want a short answer, if Mr. Menton does not mind. In light of what Mr. Menton confirmed, how can he guarantee to the taxpayers of this country that the banks will never repossess the new hospital building?
- 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...