Results 32,701-32,720 of 46,456 for speaker:Simon Harris
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: People have an intimate relationship with the GP, and it is an important one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: To the very best of my knowledge, my colleague, the Minister of State with responsibility for Bantry and mental health and older people-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: He is not here, but I note Deputy Murphy O'Mahony and the Minister of State are getting on far better these days since his announcement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: The Deputy does not mind me saying these things - there is less sting in it. I will get the Deputy a written update on this, but to the best of my knowledge they are on track.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: Please do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I am.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I must have missed that radio programme as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I am passionately in favour of it, as is the Deputy. We passed this landmark legislation. A hell of a lot of people put a large number of obstacles in our way. Vested interests with deep pockets attempted to stop us passing the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018. I acknowledge that we passed it together with civic society and public health advocates. I thank people for their co-operation....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: Alcohol cannot be advertised on children's clothing. Alcohol advertising in cinemas is severely restricted. Alcohol cannot be advertised near schools, crèches or playgrounds. It is good that some of the measures have come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I want to bring in minimum unit pricing. I will explain why I do not buy into the baloney which suggests that we cannot bring it in until Northern Ireland does so. Scotland did it without waiting for England. It is about to be done in Wales, but the authorities in England are not about to do it. I remind the Deputy that we are talking about a certain type of alcohol. We are not talking...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I would like to move on this very early in the new year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I am happy to work through the break. I have to leave at 1 p.m. When we come back, we should have enough time for members to ask any remaining questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I am happy to take a break.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I may have to ask the NTPF to compile it but we will write to the committee with that information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: It was not from me, or if the Chairman has sought it from me, I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: We will certainly ask for that. It should be easy to provide the information because the benefit of the NTPF is that one can track the patient through his or her entire journey. It is not money that goes into an overall budget but is individually allocated to a patient. I assure the Chairman that there is a direct correlation between the significant increase in funding for reducing waiting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I will also send the committee information on "do not attends". I do not have a specific figure but we see an average of 450,000 to 500,000 people missing hospital appointments each year. There has to be something behind that and we are digging for information about that. It is much higher in some areas than others. Some areas send out text reminders and some do not. The entire number of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: I thank the Chairman. I will ask my colleagues to come in on some of the questions because they are more appropriate to them, particularly the point the Chairman made on panels. On GP vacancies, I agree with the Chairman. We need to listen to him on that in terms of his professional experience but also his knowledge in terms of what is happening on the ground in rural parts of Ireland. We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: On some of the other issues, the opening hours of the MRI scanner are a matter for local hospital management but as the Chairman referenced, there is a point about looking at the two scanners in the totality. On the issue of the elective hospitals, the realistic timeframe is about four years. We can look at how we can tighten that - perhaps through standard designs and the like for the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Simon Harris: We will write to the committee.