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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will be bringing forward new policy proposals in the wake of the case of a company (details supplied). [6807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (10 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 93. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has plans to reform the Personal Injuries Assessment Board. [6808/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I can see the committee is kind of balanced, in terms of some of the views coming out, that it does not like private sector home care. A member of my family was in receipt of private sector family home care and that care was second to none. The employees were an absolute credit to the provider. I wish to put that on record. I am told the HSE pays, on average, €30 to €32...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: That would be helpful. There is so much to get through. The representatives of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland raised the issue of the low levels of training. There is a specific aspect of that I wish to raise. I am wondering what is being done about it because it came up at a meeting of another committee that I attended in respect of gender equality. It is quite a significant issue....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: Is there awareness of the gender issue, which is an emerging one? It only came up last year in the context of another issue. It took me by surprise but it is actually quite obvious. Particularly with older people, it can be a very private and personal thing because of the generation from which they come.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have a final question, if I may.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have received a couple of queries about why people cannot choose their own home care provider when they know someone locally, in cases where the HSE cannot allocate one to them. In my constituency, I have become aware of the issue of childcare. I happen to be the director of a social enterprise. We are not big on social enterprise in Ireland. In Ireland we tend to associate enterprise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I would like to mention another issue which may not appear to be connected but is. A PhD student in my constituency came to me recently with a very detailed and interesting questionnaire about our housing stock. I thought it was about social housing stock, but it was about housing stock in a particular part of the constituency from the point of view of people being able to remain in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: Very often local government intervenes when a person becomes less able or incapacitated and it is almost at the point of crisis. All of the witnesses who came before the committee today could offer something really valuable in terms of how the State could anticipate that in order to ensure it is possible for people to stay in their homes for as long as possible. What is the experience of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have had direct experience of the issue of travel. Carers are predominantly female. Depending on when shifts end, in a 24-hour shift divided between people, a young woman could leave a house in a particular area at 10 p.m. or midnight. Given the focus on events arising in the past month, what kind of concerns do care workers express about that? I am sure there is some kind of preference...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: The travel issue has been a major factor in the contributions from NGOs at this meeting. The compensation piece does not seem to be equitably distributed across HSE regions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on Harnessing Digital - The Digital Ireland Framework, which was published by his Department on 1 February 2022. [7967/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (15 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 83. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2022 HSE service plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7969/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 138. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects hospital waiting lists and waiting times to reduce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7970/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (15 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the relevant regulation governing any obligation on private car park operators in areas such as shopping centre car parks to provide disabled spaces and to provide them free of charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7918/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (15 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 295. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that a community run and operated community centre (details supplied) which has not had an insurance claim over 15 years has seen its premia rise by €10 in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7919/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the use of school buildings to facilitate the July provision in the context of the summer provision for children with special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7504/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I am interested in this area. I grew up in a generation to which tobacco companies have been discovered to have deliberately and intentionally lied about the contents and ingredients of cigarettes. They have since been taken to the cleaners in many class actions. That whole space left a bad taste in people's mouths, if everyone will pardon the pun. I have just looked at the VAT figures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: So Ms O'Connell says.