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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Have the clinicians ever been told to refuse a patient medical treatment on religious grounds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: That is fine. The nuns announced they were gifting the land and then they did not gift the land. Will the witnesses give a brief explanation of what happened there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: People are watching because there is much complexity around the different company structures that have been set up. Watching and listening to the debate, it seems that St. Vincent's hospital owns the land, the National Maternity Hospital will create a new hospital on site-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: That hospital will overlap existing St. Vincent's hospital architecture.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: It makes a lot of sense. Mr. Menton has a background in business and commercial property transactions. It makes sense to establish an entity to govern at the very least the overlapping pieces.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: The integrity of the campus was an issue going back and the witnesses have spoken about it and covered it. As a political point, in 2017, St. Vincent's Hospital Group was not countenancing any sale or lease of part of the land or any separate ownership of a hospital on-site. That goes to what the current Minister, Deputy Donnelly, has achieved. The HSE actually owns the hospital and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Okay. We have dealt with the Vatican papers. One of the witnesses spoke about the model of the Bon Secours group, which was purchased by an international healthcare group. Is that possible here? Is it possible for an international healthcare group to view the entire St. Vincent's hospital campus, including a new national maternity hospital, as one structural entity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: As a result of the 2010 Comptroller and Auditor General report, the HSE has the first option on what, exactly, if there is a decision to sell?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: If the group cannot sell the national maternity hospital, could it sell any of the existing St. Vincent's hospital campus?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Could the national maternity hospital be used as mortgage leverage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I am thinking about what is in it for the Religious Sisters of Charity. I may be wrong on this. I can think of one other example in my constituency where the Sisters of Mercy did not give land away but sold it at below market value to a local sports club on the basis that it would never be developed residentially and that there would be recourse. It just could not be done. As a result, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Provision is made regarding any of the properties of the public hospital such that the HSE would have first refusal on the sale of those. Is that not correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: For a period of time. It seems there are no Vatican papers. Mr. Menton said the group could not go down the Bon Secours route of a foreign healthcare group coming in and buying the entire site. The group cannot mortgage the new building; it can only mortgage the freehold interest, which is not really worth-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I can take an interpretation put on the Mary Aikenhead values from the extreme end but it seems even a humanist could stand over the values.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: They are not Catholic doctrine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I assume the existing private end to the public hospital will reflect the history of the contribution. All of that cannot be cancelled but the new maternity hospital will have no reference to any of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: Why did the nuns not decide to sell the site? They were getting out and they could have sold it to another healthcare group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: I presume the religious sisters established the hospital back in the day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)
John Lahart: As religious numbers began to diminish, they brought in a lay element to help them run it. Twenty years ago that was set up into the formal St. Vincent's Healthcare Group.