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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Resettlement Scheme (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I wish to ask the Minister what proposals he intends to make in terms of a new rural resettlement scheme to promote the advantages of rural living. It was outlined as a one-year strategy in the programme for Government. Rather than being merely a rural resettlement scheme I wish to introduce a new concept of a rural revitalisation scheme which would help to reinvigorate rural communities...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Resettlement Scheme (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: One of the greatest assets rural Ireland has is vacant property and, unfortunately, one of the assets it lacks is people. There are great disparities around the country in terms of the availability of housing. I envisage that such a scheme will only solve a small percentage of the housing shortage in greater urban areas but it will have a beneficial effect on the situation and it will also...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Resettlement Scheme (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: When I speak about rural revitalisation, what I mean is that communities would come together and identify the needs of that community and property within it. Obviously, it is a voluntary process. We are not talking about resettlement. We are talking about revitalisation where people would voluntarily come to live in rural Ireland and be received into a community with a huge amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: The purpose of the meeting is to meet in the first session the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisations, INMO, and the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and in the second the Health Service Executive, HSE, to discuss the national maternity strategy, 2016 to 2026, which was prepared by the maternity strategy steering group. On behalf of the joint committee, from the INMO I welcome...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Ms Leahy. I now invite Dr. Peter Boylan to make his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Boylan. I ask Professor Louise Kenny, professor of obstetrics at University College Cork and consultant obstetrician-gynaecologist at Cork University Maternity Hospital, CUMH, to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: We will now open the discussion to members and will take questions in groups of three. The first group is Deputy Louise O'Reilly, Senator Colm Burke and Deputy Kate O'Connell, in that order. Deputy Louise O'Reilly is first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: Four themes have arisen in the questions. They relate to recruitment and retention, ultrasound deficits, the mastership model and leaving gynaecological services out of the strategy. They are the four common themes of the questions. Professor Boylan, will you comment on those first, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I ask Ms Leahy or Ms Gorman to address the ratio of nursing staff to births.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I will now bring in the next group of speakers, Deputy Alan Kelly and Deputy Billy Kelleher.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I understand Deputy Sherlock's position. Four more members wish to speak so I ask them to be brief. We will undoubtedly come back to the issue of governance. I have one or two questions myself. I will take Deputies Durkan, Murphy O'Mahony and Sherlock and Senator Alice-Mary Higgins and ask them to be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: This is really a matter for discussion in a debate on the maternity strategy. While there are elements that relate to gynaecological services, the Deputy is discussing local issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I believe so. I call Professor Kenny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: Thank you. I wish to raise a final point with Dr. Boylan. With regard to litigation, in the past few months we have had meetings dealing with open disclosure. What are your views on open disclosure regarding maternity litigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank the representatives of the INMO, Ms Mary Leahy and Ms Mary Gorman, and those from the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Dr. Peter Boylan and Professor Louise Kenny, for giving of their time and expertise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: During this second session, we are meeting representatives of the Health Service Executive on the National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026 prepared by the maternity strategy steering group. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Liam Woods, national director, acute hospitals division, Ms Angela Fitzgerald, deputy national director, acute hospitals division, Mr. Kilian McGrane, national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I remind members to switch off their telephones as they interfere with broadcasting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: That was a huge number of questions and interrogation. Perhaps Mr. Woods would lead the response by speaking about how the plan can and will be implemented and the funding that will be directed towards it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: My initial question was how the Health Service Executive saw the plan progressing in its implementation. Is there sufficient funding for it and is there the will to complete the plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: Could Mr. Woods give a timeframe for the transfer of Limerick maternity hospital from its present site to Dooradoyle?