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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: I will call Senator Colm Burke in a moment. I wish to return to the global issues. The Committee on the Future of Healthcare sat for 11 months and produced the Sláintecare report. While the Sláintecare report is viewed differently by different organisations, it was a cross-party report looking at the future of healthcare and offering a ten-year vision for the healthcare system....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: If consultants' pay was equalised and the pay scale increased to €211,000, surely that would be sufficient to attract doctors to come and work exclusively in the public health system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: If the pay scale was brought up to the level mentioned, would that attract consultants to work in the public system only?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: Is Mr. Varley saying that doctors will not work in the Irish health system unless they are allowed to have private practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: The point I am making is that what we are doing now is not working. Sláintecare proposes an alternative model and, in some instances, a radical one. There is universality within Sláintecare, such that people will be treated on the basis of need rather than ability to pay. We have a system which allows people to be treated on their ability to pay rather than based on need. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Varley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: Before Deputy Durkan comes in, because he has been in on a number of occasions-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: I know that. We will not leave the Deputy out. Following a brief comment from Senator Colm Burke, we will go to Deputy Alan Kelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: I am going to ask the Deputy to be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank Senator Colm Burke and ask the witnesses to store those questions. Deputy Kelly will be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: The Deputy has five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Alan Kelly. I am going to allow Deputy O'Reilly and Deputy Durkan in for one question and then we will try to clear all of those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: I ask Ms Ní Sheaghdha to be as brief as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Michael Harty: To sum up, this morning and last week we have identified the problems and the solutions but unfortunately we fall down, as happens with many other reports, on implementation. We have huge implementation deficit disorder not only in the health service but in the Oireachtas as well and we do not know how to follow through on the best available advice. I thank Dr. Peadar Gilligan and Ms....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. There is a vacuum in rural Ireland in banking. The pillar banks have left rural Ireland and those which are still there have diminished customer service in, or excluded it from, their banks so it is difficult to speak to somebody when one goes into a bank now. One of the positive aspects of community banking is that customers deal with somebody...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank the Minister and Mr. McRedmond for attending. I also thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to speak because, while I am not a member of the committee, I feel very deeply about this issue. I understand that Mr. McRedmond and the Minister have a job to do to make An Post viable. However, as public representatives, our job is to represent our communities, particularly those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Michael Harty: I ask Mr. McRedmond if it is possible that the review date could be extended to 31 December, as opposed to 29 September, to give a community an opportunity to put together a viable business project. The time limit is so short for many communities that do not have the capacity to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Michael Harty: Can a person who is applying for a licence for a new contract get information about the volume of business under the previous contract?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (7 Sep 2018)

Michael Harty: 683. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1675 of 24 July 2018, the number of days in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018 on which MRI scanners were out of operation at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35790/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (7 Sep 2018)

Michael Harty: 945. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to support the development of community based Parkinson's nurse specialists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36850/18]