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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

John Lahart: ..., including the provision of services such as elective abortion, are directly contradictory to Catholic teaching. The Vatican papers are like something out of "The Da Vinci Code". What vehicle does Dr. Boylan see the Vatican using to impose Catholic doctrine on a State-owned and State-run hospital, which has a constitution that insists not only that these services should be available but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

John Lahart: No, but the hospital has a constitution. Does Dr. Boylan accept that the hospital's constitution insists that all clinically appropriate - and we will come to that - and legally permissible services must be provided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

John Lahart: But does Dr. Boylan accept that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

John Lahart: We know from yesterday that if it does not do this, the Minister can instruct it to do this. I know that one of the arguments is what would happen if there was a conservative Minister for Health. The fact of the matter is that the law of this land, thanks to people like Dr. Boylan, provides for the termination of pregnancy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

John Lahart: ...at St. Vincent’s must confirm if those are under the terms of the 2018 Act". They have confirmed that. They went as far as they could yesterday without breaching privacy and confidentiality. Does Dr. Boylan accept that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

John Lahart: Does Dr. Boylan accept-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: ...cost of living is significantly impacting on constituents of mine, as it is on those of all my colleagues. I read an interesting article about France. The country was in election mode, but that does not matter. The article stated: "A decision last year to limit the amount by which France’s largely state-owned energy companies could raise prices has benefited consumers and taken...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: We do not know this but maybe France does not have an energy regulator so that is out of the hands of Government here in this sense, even though most of the energy companies in France are state-owned. The second piece was about being able to look at the top 120 most important staple retail purchases. Again, France is looking at trying to cap the price of these. Clearly, a retailer could...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

John Lahart: ...;43 or €44 but he got it discounted to €38 because he was a regular purchaser. It now costs €83 or €84, discounted to €78. He has also been affected by the cost of petrol and diesel. This is because he does a lot of deliveries for people who order takeaways. I asked him if he was planning on increasing his prices. He told me he was waiting until...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (10 May 2022)

John Lahart: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that the Registry of Deeds Office has not opened since March 2020; and the reason that the Registry of Deeds Office does not open now; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22624/22]

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

John Lahart: ...given a mobile phone and complete paperwork. They are given a social security number if they arrive in Dublin Airport or Rosslare. However, for people who arrive in Dublin Port - not many do - it does not seem to have the ability to process refugees there in the manner in which they are processed in Dublin Airport. People are sent to Citywest and sent back to Dublin Airport to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: To what extent does Mr. Watt think leaks bounced into different actions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Does Mr. Watt think leaks bounced the Department into this? Was it reactive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Does Mr Watt think that the spirit of those Government decisions from 2011 and 2021 was designed to include deputy Secretaries General as well as Secretaries General?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: ...to establish a department of research and innovation, which illustrates the commitment of the Government to that piece. I ask the CMO to answer my question on the private sector pay piece. Does that differ from a normal personnel decision? The Cabinet Committee on Health, which is chaired by the Taoiseach, was to be seen to be in charge of overall strategic health direction. On the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: ...reading, the letter to Trinity was a proposal and not an agreement. The term “proposal” is loose enough. That is the benign interpretation. However, there is the signature signing up to it. Does Mr. Watt see it in the terms that there is a difference between a proposal and an agreement? What was the signature about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: ...is unrealistic to expect a person who has served as Secretary General somehow to disappear anonymously back into the same Department and work to another Secretary General. Someone who has been CEO does not go back in, as it were. Such people are fixed term, and I am assuming that explains the Government decision in 2011 and followed up again in 2021 regarding those Secretaries General...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: It is the same model, the only difference being that Mr. Watt was going to apply this to deputy Secretary General level. Dr. Holohan does not have to answer this, but is he near 40 years as a public servant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Does the deputy Secretary-----