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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: Is there an answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: Perhaps on a related commentary based on my experience, people want personal care and they feel they will get personal care if they go privately because they will see the same consultant. They may not necessarily get the same personal contact with the same doctor. With regard to maternity care, the public system is excellent and superb. Irish maternity care provides one of the top services...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: Only one, with no commentary or soliloquy With regard to what Dr. Keegan and Dr. de Buitléir have said, the issue is that we have a system in which private health insurance is inadvertently subsidising the public health service. This is the fundamental issue examined by the committee on the future of healthcare. That subsidy is perverse. We have to finish at 11.30 a.m. so the two...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: We did go through that extensively earlier and Dr. de Buitléir explained how it can and should be done in a stepped way over ten years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Shortall for those comments. On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee and for their evidence. Their report has been well received and will stand up in future as we reform our service.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: In our second session of the morning we will get an update from the Sláintecare implementation office on progress with the Sláintecare programme. I welcome Ms Laura Magahy, executive director of the Sláintecare programme implementation office, Mr. Colm Ó Conaill of the Department of Health, Mr. Dean Sullivan, chief strategic and planning officer with the HSE, Ms Ciara...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Magahy for that comprehensive overview of progress. I shall now open the floor to the members, the first of whom is Deputy Donnelly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: The Deputy needs to ask a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: We will get Mr. Sullivan in first. The Deputy has one more question. Then we will move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: Does Deputy Donnelly have a further short question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: I call Deputy Shortall, the chairperson of the Sláintecare committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: Was there any question asked by Deputy Durkan that was left unanswered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: Can the Deputy allow me to have some of those questions to be answered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: There are a number of minutes left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: We sometime look after animals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Magahy for her reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: I would like to pick up on something Deputy O'Connell touched on, namely, the shared care record. When representatives of the IMO appeared here last week, they identified the shared care record as one of the critical enablers of reform of the health service because it crosses all clinical disciplines and drives efficiency. A practitioner could log into a shared care record and see what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: How soon will we see a shared care record?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Magahy. We only have 11 minutes left.