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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: 254. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider proposals for the equal entitlement to mothers of children born through surrogacy to apply for maternity leave, maternity benefits and parental leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38217/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: 400. To ask the Minister for Health when the gene therapy drug zolgensma will be approved for reimbursement by the HSE; if same will be made available at an early date to a person (details supplied) for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31388/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Chair, I do not accept that I am only entitled to four minutes. I have been here since the start so I am entitled to the same number of minutes as everyone else. I ask the Minister about the title currently held by St. Vincent’s University Hospital. Do we know what title it has? I sit on a hospital board and know it has a lease, which is granted under certain terms. Does it hold a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: We do not even know. In other words, it may be restricted on what it can grant, because of the title it already holds. Could that be the position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Surely, if the Department is dealing with negotiations and the issue of getting a lease, it should know what the prior title is? What title does it currently hold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Can that be clarified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: The second issue is that 42 consultants wrote in. They were concerned about the debate that should occur on how this structure is set up. Has there been a direct meeting with the representatives of those consultants, so that their concerns can also be taken on board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Has the Department contacted the consultants directly since they issued their statement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: With regard to the structure of the board, the board of the National Maternity Hospital is independent. When the hospital is established on the St. Vincent's site, will the board be under the jurisdiction of the St. Vincent's structure or will it be independent of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: Why can it not be set up so that it is independent of the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: I am asking a very clear question. Why can it not be independent of the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: It is a simple question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: The Minister could answer it here. Why can the board not be independent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: I am asking the Minister to deal with the question. Why can the board not be independent of the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: In fairness, it is a crucial question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: That is not the question I have asked. Concerns have been raised that the Department and the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group will have a say and will be able to overrule the people who are working on the front line. Can this issue be looked at so that the board that is set up to run the national maternity hospital cannot be overruled by the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: It will still be part of the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group however. Can we not draw a clear line, which can be done in company law, ensuring the board's independence and that it is not answerable to any body other than the HSE and the Department of Health? That is what I am suggesting. In other words, we now have a board that is answerable to the HSE-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: May I come in later as I have another meeting to attend for approximately half an hour?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: My apologies, as some of this may have already been raised. Unfortunately, I had to be at another committee meeting this morning. I have a question about the initial contract that was entered into, which was about the structural elements of the building and all of that structural work. My understanding is that work is now substantially completed. Why cannot the issues about the additional...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Colm Burke: What was the initial price in relation to phase A?