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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: The witnesses are getting used to my face after five years of this and vice versa. I find it more interesting that as time goes on. I am still just a layman when it comes to economics but I am always intrigued by the repetition and pattern of repeated themes. I am interested in some of that. Every so often, I surprise myself when I see some of the occasional thoughts I have replicated by...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I do not know if it is appropriate to bring in Mr. Giustiniani on the ageing profile. He mentioned that this is a vulnerability in the Irish economy. One of the things that we learned from Covid was that Italy had the second oldest population in the EU. There should not be a need for Ireland to reinvent the wheel here. Other countries will have gone through this period in the cycle of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: As the Minister outlined in his opening statement, this was a commitment in the programme for Government. That is the first box ticked. It was to be done within three years. That is the second box ticked. Having an independent chair is another box ticked. The public consultation is another box ticked. The outreach to the stakeholders, the service users and the service providers is about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: How much public money is involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Regarding the names the Minister was alerted to and whom he thought could do a job such as this, does he think some of them are interested in this or are they precluded from it by virtue of their professional or employment status or whatever?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: The Minister does not see any issues with them being precluded, so it would be open for them to apply and we may get the kind of chair the Minister had in mind but who will come through a neutral process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Who assesses the tenders? The advertisement goes out and the expressions of interest come in. Who adjudicates on the tenders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: On a point of information, the Department of Health website is updated reflecting the launch of this process, which is welcome.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I have an aside for Dr. Casey, which I hope will be taken the right way. I hope he is being looked after. His beard and hair get longer every time we have a meeting and he is beginning to remind me of Tom Hanks in "Cast Away". I hope he is not cast away in the wilderness with a basketball called Gilbert for company. It is nice to see him. I mean that in a jovial way. The Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Chair for facilitating me and I thank our guests for their presence. As others have, I thank them for all the work they have done, both seen and unseen, over the past year and a half, and for the essential emergency service they provide. Mr. Kenny spoke about Slea Head, an area I know intimately because my mother was from Ballyferriter. The idea that an ambulance would have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I have been given a scenario. Is this a regular occurrence or is it completely out of the question for a dispatch system to send a crew on call from County Donegal to County Tipperary that is diverted en route to Mullingar, then to County Mayo, and then to County Donegal? Is it completely out of the question that this could occur?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: What would Mr. Kenny say about reports that a third of ambulance delays last more than one hour and that this is a common experience in some counties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Without being too explicit, can Mr. Kenny say for sure that these delays cause fatalities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: I was responsible for ensuring that Dublin Fire Brigade and ambulance services were included today. I have had very close contact with them as a Deputy over the years. There are reports claiming that HSE figures show that ambulances turned up to life-threatening events more than an hour late on 300 occasions in the first six months of 2021. Is that accurate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: Councillor colleagues in Donegal have told me that delays in emergency departments are a significant issue in the availability of crews responding. Can Mr. Kenny elaborate on why emergency departments cause such delays?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: If the system had all the resources Mr. Kenny wanted and was able to provide all the services and overcome all the obstacles, how long typically should it take for an ambulance once it arrives at the door of a hospital to dispatch its patient into the care of that hospital if everything was ideal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: From arrival at the front door, as it were.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

John Lahart: This might be a question for management as they have the figures, but how often does that happen?