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National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: -----and we attempt to form a left Government. That Government, because of this document, will never be ale to take full control and ownership of a hospital that was built with public money. It will never happen because one of the clauses accompanying the reduced level of rent states that St. Vincent's Holdings will never be challenged by the State and taken off the pitch. I ask the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the position in relation to the current JobBridge scheme and the current contracts with SeeTec and Turas Nua; when this contact expires; if there is a new proposed tendering process for the services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24562/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify what if any provisions her Department has made for dealing or absorbing current LES staff who may lose their positions as a result of the tendering process for those services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24561/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of including those who work in the homeless sector (details supplied) in the Covid-19 recognition scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe in which the working group to examine defects in housing report on defective apartments will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24835/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position in relation to defective apartments which have failed fire regulation standards; the scheme that he will establish to deal with the matter; if the mica scheme provides a blueprint for future schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the number of apartments that were purchased by local authorities which have defective elements such as fire standards and so on; if they can be included as part of any defective apartments scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24837/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 618. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will automatically extend stamp 2 visa permissions due to expire on 31 May until 30 September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24799/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 661. To ask the Minister for Health the plans there are to extend the Covid-19 recognition scheme to those homeless sector front-line workers who meet all the criteria publicly announced and who work in identical clinical and residential settings to sections 38 and 39 organisations already included in the recognition payment scheme; if he will acknowledge that the Government and HSE have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 696. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical card holders are often asked to pay at least €20 for a sick note from a general practitioner; if there are plans to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24469/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank all the witnesses for coming today. They will understand from our perspective that we in the Opposition have mainly been asking for a discussion around this deal for two years now, which we are only getting in the last two weeks. It is really unsatisfactory for us. Again, I will appeal publicly to the Government to delay this and give us more time because we are being pushed into a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Demographically, it was withdrawing and it knew that this was happening, obviously. Its membership is not stupid. History was taking its course in that the order was not going to be around forever in sufficient numbers. Mr. Menton started working in St. Vincent's Healthcare Group in 2014, is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: At what point did Mr. Menton have the first discussion with the Sisters of Charity about that evolution and the possibility of it leaving the group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Within one to two months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay. When Mr. Menton was recruited or appointed, did the Sisters of Charity play any role in his recruitment or appointment? Did it seek him out? Did it interview him? Did it appoint him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Invited by who?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: The Sisters of Charity wanted Mr. Menton back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: In a situation where the Sisters of Charity knew its demise was inevitable, the order wanted Mr. Menton back into the position that he is in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: There must be a good reason for that. I do not doubt Mr. Menton is a good worker and a conscientious man but there must be a good reason from its perspective. Staying on the question of evolution, Mr. Menton talked about how the hospital is now completely secular. Has he removed all the iconography? Is the Mother Mary Aikenhead picture gone? Are the crucifixes gone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay, so the evolutionary process is not complete.