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- Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: This is not a debate I was going to contribute on. It is not that I do not feel I have anything to say. It is just that I have heard the same speeches being made again and again over the years. I share the frustration of my colleagues in opposition. I am also very proud of the tradition of my own party. I am also conscious that this week we celebrated the life and passing of a great...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: I thank the witnesses. I will leave a minute at the end of my contribution to get an update on the Tallaght satellite and how that is progressing. If our witnesses cannot provide that here, they might forward to the committee a note on it. Is there are state-to-state diplomatic element to resolving this? Royal BAM Group has a very good name internationally. We also had a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: Please do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: Okay, the board has appeared before us previously with exactly this kind of narrative.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: What might be involved if BAM delivers that document and what does Mr. Gunning anticipate that it will contain?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: What happens if the NPHDB do not arrive at this position?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: Mr. Gunning says that BAM is not providing sufficient resources to deliver the hospital and to illustrate that point, BAM achieved 67% of its planned output in the past 12 months. Where does Mr. Gunning think BAM’s resources are? Do they have the resources?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: Is this on-site or in the country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: Can we get a brief update on the satellite centres?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: Is it working to capacity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: It creates a precedent though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: I thank the witnesses. The original cost was €910 million. The board has paid out €818 million, which represents approximately 89% of the total overall cost, and the building is 89% complete. That €910 million was not intended to include inflationary costs, which, if I am correct in saying so, amounted to €50 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: Were there any additional unforeseen costs claimed above the €910 million, aside from those inflation-related costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: What do they amount to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: On the €910 million, the additional costs come to around €50 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: Everybody here seems to be saying that we do not want to come down on any side vis-à-visthe board and BAM. Without meaning to belittle the situation, for context, it seems to me that if a contractor was working on a school or a house and there were questions about a low rate of productivity, progress reports not being provided for the four most recent months, insufficient resources...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: As usual, there will not be enough time. It is fascinating. I thank our three contributors. I will start where Professor Madden finished. That is something I will have to take away. I am a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, and paragraph 3 of Professor Madden's statement reads: "As clinicians, doctors have no unique competence in the resolution of ethical issues -...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: I do not mean to pin Professor Jones into a corner, but from his own life experience - forget everything else - does he think there are absolutely no circumstances in which an intervention along those lines is appropriate?