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

John Lahart: On the €910 million, the additional costs come to around €50 million.

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

John Lahart: Everybody here seems to be saying that we do not want to come down on any side vis-à-visthe board and BAM. Without meaning to belittle the situation, for context, it seems to me that if a contractor was working on a school or a house and there were questions about a low rate of productivity, progress reports not being provided for the four most recent months, insufficient resources...

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

John Lahart: As usual, there will not be enough time. It is fascinating. I thank our three contributors. I will start where Professor Madden finished. That is something I will have to take away. I am a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, and paragraph 3 of Professor Madden's statement reads: "As clinicians, doctors have no unique competence in the resolution of ethical issues -...

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

John Lahart: I do not mean to pin Professor Jones into a corner, but from his own life experience - forget everything else - does he think there are absolutely no circumstances in which an intervention along those lines is appropriate?

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

John Lahart: On the advanced declarations, I am very interested in the three contributions here, and they have been very valuable again with regard to taking them away. The capacity piece is something we are going to have to go into a little bit more. The waiving of consent is, again, a tricky area. I will go back to Professor Jones. He says that if the numbers go up, the categories expand and...

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

John Lahart: What numbers have gone up?

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

John Lahart: From 1,000 to 10,000 when?

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

John Lahart: Could Professor Jones expand on "categories"?

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

John Lahart: That would be helpful, I thank Professor Jones. I find it hard, as a human being. I am not pressing Professor Jones, as I accept his bona fides. However, I find it hard to encounter someone who has never seen a situation where they have not been moved to think that there has to be a better way than this, because this is a terrible existence for a human being, whether it is in terms of the...

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

John Lahart: I will ask a few questions and I will leave it to the three witnesses to answer. One of the witnesses referred to those who might feel pressured to use assisted dying as an option. Can Professor Donnelly or Professor Madden give an example of what that pressure might look like and where it might come from? Have we any anecdotal or hard evidence in that regard? What does an advance...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost to date of the BusConnects project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34285/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost to date of the BusConnects project for Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34287/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost to date of the Metrolink North project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34289/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost to date of the Metrolink Southwest project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34291/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the centralisation of the defective concrete blocks grant scheme, the pyrite remediation scheme, the defective apartments and duplexes remediation scheme and any other relevant scheme to expedite and simplify the roll-out of these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33730/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider creating a statutory oversight body for the construction sector that will investigate claims of negligent practices and-or defective buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34183/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider creating a construction defects insurance fund operated by the State, funded by the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34184/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: 714. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of the average medical card, including the direct cost to the general practitioner; a breakdown of the indirect cost, to include the cost of drugs and other schemes which the medical card permits exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33675/23]

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]

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

John Lahart: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the cost-rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33187/23]