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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is grand. When I asked about floating charges earlier in the meeting, Mr. Menton indicated that floating charges do not apply to all assets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, but those charges would apply to all other buildings and sites-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: -----currently and in the future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I refer to the issue of the ownership of the building. The first schedule to the lease refers to any buildings on the site. That is what premises means in that context. Under the heading of "landlord mortgaging", the lease refers to St. Vincent's Healthcare Group having covenants with the tenant not to mortgage or charge the landlords freehold interest in the premises, including...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: If the HSE consents to St. Vincent's mortgaging the site and the building, it could do it sooner than 20 years. The other phrase used in this regard refers to such consent not being "unreasonably withheld or delayed". If St. Vincent's gets into serious financial difficulty, as it has been from time to time-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I recall Mr. O'Raghallaigh's previous answer. I also recall clearly that St. Vincent's mortgaged the public hospital to build a private hospital, without any approvals. It does have form in this regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Our guests will be aware that the head of the HSE referred to St. Vincent's private hospital as having a parasitic dependence on the public hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Some of us remember that very clearly and it is our concern now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is Mr. O'Raghallaigh denying that the licence vitiates the ownership issue in the lease?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: St. Vincent's mortgaged the public hospitals to raise money for the private hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is that where all the St. Vincent's debts come from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: From the private hospital building?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: The debts come from building the private hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Could maps be provided to go with the documents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: We were not supplied with those. I ask that they be sent to the committee overnight, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Menton.
- National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I want to go back to the term “clinically appropriate” and the reason there is no definition of it. That is particularly baffling given that there are six pages of definitions in the lease agreement. Across all of the other legal documents that have been released, there are pages and pages of definitions. Why is there no definition of the term “clinically...
- National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is the very point. It is baffling that the Minister is not prepared to provide a definition. I put it to him that there is no equivalence between the phrase “clinically appropriate” and names of different branches of medicine. That is a completely different thing. The term “clinically appropriate” is open to ambiguity. Even those who are in favour of this...
- National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)
Róisín Shortall: A definition in the legal document is needed.