Results 19,181-19,200 of 46,575 for speaker:Simon Harris
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I can. These four streams are all areas where Sláintecare is pivoted. Basically, we are asking, rather than telling from the top down, what people should be doing in the local health organisation. We are asking hospitals, community health organisations and voluntary organisations to tell us what they believe they can do. People tell me as we go around the country all the time: "I...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: No. It is fair to say the fourth stream is probably more applicable to other organisations but a voluntary organisation can apply under any of the streams. The fourth is nearly non-HSE specific but non-HSE people are not ruled out for the other three.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I answered some of the question previously but I welcome the chance to answer it again. I am somewhat uneasy with other people speaking or suggesting that they are speaking for my chief medical officer. The chief medical officer in the Department and I are ad idemon this, as are my officials. Deputy Chambers does not have to take my word for it. My Department at official level, not me,...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Deputy Donnelly went on the Drivetime radio show and reversed his position and said he would be voting to remove Mr. O'Brien, an unprecedented move.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Maybe it was a couple of days later but that is how the Deputy was viewing the director general of the HSE.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Fianna Fáil had no confidence in him.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I am not sure who is actually asking questions here but I am just pointing out-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I am pointing out that the Deputy wanted Mr. O'Brien to resign from his job in respect of the CervicalCheck debacle.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: There is not a thing going on. It is just that there has been lots of misinformation put out in recent days.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I am sure the Deputy does, for different reasons. I do not recall Mr. O'Brien having a conversation with me. That is not to say that he did not. We had many conversations. The reality of the situation is that I take my medical advice from the chief medical officer, who is a doctor. I had lost confidence in the management of CervicalCheck. I do not wish to speak for Deputy Lisa Chambers...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: The HSE stopped it two months later. I conveyed my decision to the HSE and it said women had already booked in and asked to allow them to have those appointments.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Sure.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I do.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Would Deputy Lisa Chambers give up Twitter if she was in Cabinet?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Exactly.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: The Deputy will understand why I take my advice in respect of whether it was a good or a bad decision from other sources than Opposition politicians. The president of the National Association of General Practitioners, someone the Deputy and her party cite quite regularly as having an expert view on primary care, stated again this week that he believed it was the right decision because many...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: The Deputy has suggested that I tweeted and created all this demand on capacity. Women were already going to their GPs. Women were turning up at their GP looking for reassurance, 110,000 of them. I made the decision not just about the repeat smear but also a free GP visit, which is different from the normal screening service protocol. I decided to offer a free consultation with the GP...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I was not sending women anywhere. Women were going to their GPs.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: That is true.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: That is true.