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Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

John Lahart: ...when there is very little that separates us. I am a republican and other Deputies are republicans but, very often, people seek to divide on very nuanced lines. The only losers are Irish people and republicans who value the conversation that is going on. I am grateful for the opportunity to put those kinds of thoughts on record for the first time in my eight years as a TD. I look...

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

John Lahart: ..., it was the last development before the Dublin Mountains. Tallaght was a village. When we were on a journey down the country, we gave the famous children's catchcry, "Are we there yet?", when we got to Tallaght village, which was very much set in the country. In the subsequent 50, 55 or 60 years, a huge amount has changed. Much has stayed the same. Much could have been done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the witnesses. One of the problems in the committee is that when new witnesses some in, and I speak for myself, I find myself oscillating, which I think is reasonable, forwards and back - I will not say between fixed positions - but it is interesting. That is why this committee was established. It is to tease some of these issues out. Therefore, if I come with a perspective that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: ...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 Cabinet-approved...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I congratulate the Minister and his officials. I brought forward a Bill during the previous Dáil regarding the issue of the antisocial use of scramblers, and my party colleague, Deputy McAuliffe, and I introduced a stand-alone Bill on that issue way back when the Dáil was sitting in the convention centre. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that was...

Joint Committee On Health: Life Cycle Approach to Mental Health: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

John Lahart: ...psychotherapist and I have a particular interest in mental health. I was taken aback by some of the content of the presentations. I thank ALONE, Sage Advocacy and the Mental Health Commission for forwarding papers to the sub-committee. Any Oireachtas Members or members of the public listening in will be particularly taken by the discussion on the huge impact of the Covid period on...

Special Educational Needs: Statements (16 Jun 2022)

John Lahart: ..., County Kildare. Can you imagine making that journey twice a day, travelling down the Naas Road before reversing back over the mountains to Kiltiernan? I do not want to allow this debate to go by without sincerely thanking the passionate advocates. I think of Miriam Kenny of Involve Autism, her husband, Brian, Alan and Colman and all of the others who assist them. I also think of...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

John Lahart: ...of the garden but are suitable for particular plants. Sometimes I think we are too late. A piecemeal manner of addressing this will not work. If you want to see the appetite for plastic, go into your supermarket. The most obscene example of plastic use is on airlines. When you order a cup of tea and a bun, you are given a plastic cup, a plastic spoon, plastic sachets of sugar, a...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: ...this day and age. Like every other Deputy present, I strongly support Sláintecare and yearn for the day when there is universal free healthcare, universal access to healthcare on an equal basis and good and decent healthcare. I do not just mean universal access, but universally timely access to every sort of procedure, every sort of consultant and every sort of care that is...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: .... I look at the construction jobs provided in the lead-up to the establishment of many of these corporations. I look at the very well-paid jobs and educated workforces they employ, so that people going through our university systems find good and gainful employment and pay lots of tax on the good salaries they earn. I think not just of all the jobs that corporation tax has provided over...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: ...of the questions asked by the public representatives were answered. Not all of them were answered so I have a few I would like to follow up on with the Minister of State. The guests did commit to forward papers to the committee on some issues, and I look forward to receiving them. There is some good news before I ask the questions. It was the Taoiseach who, in his role as Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank her for that because the parliamentary question response I got talked about the potential harms or risks to the population as a whole but it did not go on to elaborate on those. What Professor Flanagan has said is really useful and very helpful, that is, this could cause unneeded anxiety and alarm among the population. If the professor has more to say to us on that, please forward...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (28 Sep 2021)

John Lahart: ...centre; the hours of opening; the overall cost of the project both anticipated and real time; the details of the contractors and the contractual arrangements and costs for the lease of the centre going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46270/21]

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

John Lahart: ...the Australian ambassador. One of the first topics we spoke about was mental health from the Australian perspective and the challenges being faced. No nation is perfect, but Australia has a very good record in terms of strategic interventions in the mental health space and will be long recognised for that. Obviously, it is a completely different country and society. I wish to respond...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: ...facing any household in terms of money include how much it is earning or bringing in, how much it is spending, how much it needs, how much it saves, how much it owes and how reliable its income is going forward. Will the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform give a general overview of the outlook under those headings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: This is not a point I am making to get at the Minister. He is a very good colleague of mine. It is a bigger question, I suppose, in respect of his position as Minister. What goes to the heart of any concerns I have is that the State, in essence, runs this hospital. It has done so since the numbers of religious have diminished over the years. The State invests a colossal amount of money...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: ...the Department with responsibility for housing. It was before the current Minister’s time. Deputy Kelly was the Minister with responsibility for housing when one project was announced in my area. Deputy Coveney moved the project forward when he held the housing portfolio. However, the project had still not started before Eoghan Murphy, the former Deputy and Minister, took over...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

John Lahart: Thank you. As I have to go to the convention centre to chair a session at 10:30 a.m., I will do what politicians often do, which is to speak and run. No disrespect is intended. I thank Mr. Downes for his presentation and thank the witnesses for attending. On equality budgeting, the assistant secretary general will know that was an initiative of the last Committee on Budgetary Oversight,...