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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (29 Feb 2024)

John Lahart: ...supplied); if it remains in the ownership of the State in the form of the HSE; if there are plans to dispose of it; if local people can continue to enjoy historical rights-of-way over parts of the land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9377/24]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

John Lahart: .... They are very badly needed, but they tend to be retrospective rather than designed into suburbs. We have an opportunity to re-envisage things. Adamstown is one of the few designed towns in Ireland. That is one of the things I have learned. South Dublin County Council, after much public consultation and deliberation, formulated an area action plan for the Citywest geographic area....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: ...and other health professionals is the cost of accommodation in Dublin. As a result, attracting staff obviously has to be a key issue. Mr. Gloster mentioned how determined he was that if the Land Development Agency sought to take some HSE land that he would want to leverage that. This is a theme I want to come back to again. What progress has been made in this regard? What planning is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: ...it would be lawful to provide or withhold the treatment or care is a matter for the law". We have come up against that in matters regarding termination of pregnancy, where it is the law of the land, and where there are particular issues regarding conscientious objection, etc. That has been a challenge for the State, or where there is a particular outlook in a particular care setting. I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the Land Development Agency is providing new homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33186/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: ...centres. Do not even think about levying car parking. It is a great incentive for people to use it. The chief executive officer mentioned at the end of questioning the last time we met that the Land Development Agency, LDA, had big eyes on the HSE's land bank. This question is for both witnesses. I thought it was an interesting concept. The HSE is open to discussions and positive...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Commemorative Events (18 May 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister for taking my question. I tabled this question in February and it might have done a tour of Departments before it landed on the Minister's desk so I am grateful to her for taking it today. It relates to a commemorative date plaque of the first famine commemoration, which was held, not in Skibereen in 2009, but at the Custom House in Dublin, appropriately, in 2008.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (9 Mar 2023)

John Lahart: ...quite a bit of work. The final request, which I ask the Minister of State to bring back to the Minister on my behalf, is for the Minister to visit St. Aidan's Community School in Tallaght. It has substantial lands and some very exciting works could be done in conjunction with the Department, the local authority and the school community.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (15 Nov 2022)

John Lahart: 403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the profit gained from the agricultural use of land (details supplied) and or the capital value of the piece of land will be taken into account for a means test for an application for a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56621/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

John Lahart: ...is when it appears as a planning application or proposal. How do we facilitate early conversations that do not spook the horses but get people into an open conversation to consider a piece of land in the county that may lie idle - may be completely unused even as amenity space - on which a development incorporating rightsizing could be built along with the amenities associated with modern...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

John Lahart: ...Luas, the Dublin Port tunnel and terminal 2 at Dublin Airport. People then say, "This is almost here. We just have to get on with it." Do we have a ballpark or some kind of figure that we can land on regarding the overall cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

John Lahart: ...now is €9 million in claims. That is a big sum but it seems that a tight game is being played in the overall cost of it if some of that has been due to court decisions and if those decisions land your way, as was said. The figure we are dealing with is between €9 million and €500 million, which is a big gulf.

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: ...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: ...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 land is being leased at...

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: .... They could say, essentially, that what they have done with having a rent of €10 a year is that this is a gift to the State because there is no cost to it but the State does not own the land in perpetuity. The HSE has a lease on it for 299 years. What was that transition from the Religious Sisters of Charity into the St Vincent's Healthcare Group about? This relates to Deputy...

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

John Lahart: ..., 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: The national maternity hospital is subject to a constitution, subject to ministerial direction and subject to the law of the land, not the Vatican.