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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: No. We all know what age Dr. Holohan is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: No, we all know what age Dr. Holohan is. It is the 40 years, in other words-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Okay. Contrary to previous questions, this is provided for in a Government decision for Secretary Generals. Those Departments might help us and might help the internal inquiry by outlining the process by which the Secretary Generals of those Departments were seconded, as it were, into two different university sectors. The terms and conditions involved in doing this in a State-funded...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Except in relation to deputy Secretary General level, which this was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: It comes back to the communications and our star player here. To some degree, in olden days, Robert, no one would know who you were.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: No one should know who you are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Okay. There will be reviews of books and things like that. Some people have been described as bullies, thugs and all the rest of it. Some people have been said to be robust in getting their own way. It was an interesting and fraught period. However, the communications piece just seemed to misunderstand not the nature of the position, but the person who Mr. Watt was seeking to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: There were accusations that Ministers were not informed, but I think Mr. Watt would say that he had not got it to the point where the Minister ought to have been informed. There will be others who may be here sitting beside me who might take issue with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: That is my summary. It would be helpful, in terms of the internal inquiry, if the two Departments - the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Department of Education - provided a few details of the process they followed in terms of their Secretary Generals going to the university sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Does the deputy Secretary-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Leaving Dr. Holohan out of it as a personality, on the deputy Secretary General piece and kind of accommodating that into the Secretary General model of secondment, that is kind of unprecedented and there is no Government provision for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Mr. Watt has probably passed seven years as Secretary General between the two Departments. If there was a decision not to extend the term and he was nowhere near his 40 years of service, we could anticipate a similar arrangement could be entered into, given the Government has approved this process in 2011 and 2021, so his particular expertise and experience would not be lost to the public...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (28 Apr 2022)

John Lahart: 13. To ask the Minister for Finance if motor insurance premiums are decreasing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (28 Apr 2022)

John Lahart: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the VAT reduction to 9% in gas and electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ukraine War (28 Apr 2022)

John Lahart: 122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding he is allocating to support Government initiatives that are helping Ukraine and the Ukrainian people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20546/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lobbying Reform (28 Apr 2022)

John Lahart: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he proposes to change the laws around lobbying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20547/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (27 Apr 2022)

John Lahart: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service unit of his Department. [20341/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Prevention (27 Apr 2022)

John Lahart: Likewise, I acknowledge the increase in Garda numbers, but what people want to see, which is the age-old challenge, is gardaí on the streets. Be it the area covered by Tallaght Garda station, the area that is in need of a Garda station in Citywest, or Rathfarnham Garda station, which covers Firhouse, Ballycullen, Knocklyon, Rathfarnham and Churchtown, the public never see a garda on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Prevention (27 Apr 2022)

John Lahart: It is not only in the city but also the suburbs. Tallaght Garda Station, the main Garda station in my constituency along with Rathfarnham Garda station, was designed in the 1970s and built in the 1980s. It is completely outdated. The Garda in Tallaght now take two floors of the Plaza Hotel, adjacent to Tallaght Garda station in order to be able to fulfil the functions they must fulfil. It...