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Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I am very happy to speak on the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016. It is a matter very close to my heart. We must keep the frail, elderly members of our community living in their and our community. It is essential that we look after our frail, elderly people. Frail is the important word. We are facing huge demographic changes in this country. I will not give the House...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: The position in Bus Éireann is very worrying. The recent presentation made by the acting CEO of Bus Éireann, Mr. Ray Hernan, to the Oireachtas transport committee was frightening when he forecast that losses for 2016 would be up to €9 million. His assertion that the company could be insolvent by the end of the year without drastic cost reductions was very concerning for the...

Roads Funding: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: The principal reason for the Rural Independent Group putting forward this motion is to highlight that the Irish road network is significantly underfunded. This raises safety concerns and concerns over the lack of connectivity between our major urban areas and it inhibits balanced regional development which significantly disadvantages our peripheral counties. The programme for partnership...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Car Park Charges (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue generated from car parking services in each public hospital in 2016; the purposes for which this money is used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4793/17]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Health Information and Quality Authority (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I am sorry for being late. Some of my questions may have been answered already. Some providers have brought to my attention that HIQA imposes almost impossible demands upon them to provide standards of service. They themselves are struggling to provide best service but are chronically underfunded. Does HIQA take underfunding and lack of resources into account in making its assessments...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: The purpose of the meeting is to discuss primary care services, with particular reference to GP manpower and capacity issues in a properly functioning primary care service. On behalf of the joint committee, I welcome Dr. Pádraig McGarry and Dr. Austin Byrne from the Irish Medical Organisation; Dr. Karena Hanley and Dr. Brendan O'Shea from the Irish College of General Practitioners, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Kerin. I call on the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, to make its opening submission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Dr. McGarry and call on the speaker for the Irish College of General Practitioners to make the opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank all of the witnesses for their opening statements. Before I open up the discussion, many of the members here today are also members of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare. There is an understanding among all of the experts who have appeared before us that general practice is the core of how we build our future health service. In that regard, we would like to direct our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: We have heard a huge array of questions. To keep the flow of the meeting going perhaps one representative from each organisation would respond, although I am not trying to stifle discussion, and keep their answers as focused as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: Will the negotiations for a new contract to underpin the health care system in the next ten years exclusively involve the IMO, with the NAGP being involved on a purely consultative basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: Is that the correct way to go forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: We will have an opportunity to come back to these points but we need to bring in additional speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: Unfortunately the Deputy has used up all Deputy O'Reilly's time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I call Deputy O'Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Deputy O'Reilly. I call Deputy Kelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: How would salaried GPs fit into the context of general practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: If there were salaried GPs, there would most likely be salaried staff. Is that not the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: The Deputy also raised the Carlow-Kilkenny model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I have one more contributor to bring in. I want to include Senator John Dolan in the questioning. We can come back to all of the issues raised.