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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: I thank the Minister. Three members are offering. Can they decide among themselves who will speak or will one represent the three of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Does Deputy O'Connell want to take the lead?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Durkan. I am afraid that concludes our meeting because we must vacate this room for the next committee meeting, which concerns climate change. On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: -----and his official, Mr. Breslin, and Ms Anne O'Connor, Dr. McKenna, Mr. Liam Woods and Mr. Dean Sullivan from the HSE for attending.

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: I address my comments to the Minister, Deputy Harris, and the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. I have tried to constructively engage with them on health reform. This issue crystallises into health reform. It arises from issues of recruitment, retention and pay. It is also about health reform and recruiting and retaining nurses to deliver a proper level of care to our patients. The health...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (7 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: This is a very important question for the mid-west, particularly in the context of the controversies that are raging in so many areas of our health service. There is disquiet and frustration in the mid-west that the regional hospital, University Hospital Limerick, is first or second in the number of people waiting on trolleys for admission on a daily basis. There are two proposals to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (7 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: When will the 60-bed modular unit be delivered? According to the Minister of State, capital funding will be made available. While we accept that, the capital plans for 2019 to 2021 are being reprofiled and we do not know whether that funding will be available. The 60-bed modular unit needs to be made available urgently. It cannot be put off until 2020 or 2021. I understand that it will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (14 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if overruns at the national children’s hospital will not result in cuts to Office of Public Works funding earmarked for urgent flood mitigation measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7574/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: 151. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment at the Cork dental hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7454/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (19 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an assessment of the shortage of places in secondary schools (details supplied) will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7827/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (19 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: 304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of a replacement pharmaceutical industry for a company (details supplied) in view of correspondence from the company to the community detailing the wind down of its operations by mid-2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7767/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (19 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: 502. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received and plans to publish promised proposals by the ESB on the future on Moneypoint power station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7765/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (19 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: 503. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a progress report on the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7766/19]

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: I will be supporting the motion of no confidence in the Minister. I have observed his lack of understanding of health service dysfunction at close quarters in the past two and a half years from across the floor at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and in the Dáil. His understanding of the causes of that health service dysfunction has been poor and, unfortunately, not improved in...

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: This meeting has been convened to consider the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018. The primary purpose of this Bill is to amend the Health Act 2014 to provide that the HSE shall be governed by a board and that the executive shall have a chief executive officer, CEO, accountable to the board. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, and her officials, who will...

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Amendments Nos. 1, 8 to 15, inclusive, Nos. 18 to 20, inclusive, Nos. 22 to 24, inclusive, and Nos. 26 to 28, inclusive are related. Amendments Nos. 9 to 15, inclusive, and amendments Nos. 26 to 28, inclusive, are consequential on No. 8. Amendments 19 and 20 are consequential on No. 18. Amendments Nos. 1, 8 to 15, inclusive, Nos. 18 to 20, inclusive, and Nos. 26 to 28, inclusive, will be...

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Are there any comments on amendment No. 1?

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: We are not discussing amendment No. 16.

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Amendments Nos. 2 and 4 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: The Minister of State must provide the answer.