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Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: Samaritans Ireland (5 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Chair. I was watching the earlier proceedings and I noted down a few points. I like the report submitted to us from the Samaritans and the presentation was interesting from several perspectives. I am not judging, but, as Ms Stack was just saying, the Samaritans organisation brings a certain amount of expertise to the partnerships into which it enters compared to many other...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: Samaritans Ireland (5 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Politics is a much maligned profession. It is the thing to do to knock the body yet there is not a politician in Leinster House who does not get up to half a dozen, and more, telephone calls to their offices from the same people every week or month. These people rarely have a query but they will manufacture one purely just to engage with someone. When house calls were permitted, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister and the Secretary General. Context is everything. I have always tried to be non-partisan on this and I will continue in that vein. In a non-partisan way, there are two or three issues that strike me about this. First, the Minister is just a year and a half in the job, so much of the narrative around Sláintecare would have preceded his time in office. Second, Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Does Mr. Watt wish to add to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: The implementation board will be co-chaired by Mr. Watt and the chief executive of the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I did not ask any of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: When does that start?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I ask Mr. Watt to expand what he has said about reorganising the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Is Mr. Watt saying that Sláintecare will now effectively be part of the oxygen in the Department of Health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank Mr. Watt.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (13 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: 24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date under the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025 launched in April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49817/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (13 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full range of measures in place to help students in financial difficulty in third-level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49810/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I am sharing time. I will narrow my focus, because I just have three or four minutes, to a specific aspect of the budget. Then, in the context of the finance Bill I will talk about other issues. One of the policy issues close to my heart is the issue of special needs education, as well as the provision of many facilities, supports, backup, teachers, and hours to those children who have...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (14 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - to discuss an update on the implementation and oversight of the Irish Sign Language Act; (2) Deputy Michael Moynihan - to discuss understaffing and resources in the ambulance services in Cork and...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: Deputy O'Donnell is sharing time with Deputy Flaherty.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: As a notice for those Deputies contributing to the Topical Issue Debate, which is scheduled for 6 p.m, we are going to finish these statements considerably earlier than that. To advise the Deputies who are on standby for that debate, I estimate we will finish the statements within 40 minutes at the latest.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: We have no Solidarity-People Before Profit speakers so I call Deputy Durkan.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Irish Sign Language (14 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: The Deputy has two minutes for his response. He might try to stay on time.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (20 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State for her presence today. We all know, both as human beings and constituency politicians, that a trip made by anybody to hospital is generally a journey taken with some little anxiety and trepidation, if not more. It is not something we like to have to schedule into our diary. Covid-19 has clearly exacerbated this experience for people because it tends to make...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (20 Oct 2021)

John Lahart: The Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and I had a sneak preview of the children's satellite hospital at Tallaght. It is a very fine facility and I very much look forward to it opening. I acknowledge, as the Minister of State did, the work and commitment of staff in Tallaght University Hospital and their efforts in ensuring an uninterrupted provision of emergency care throughout the...