Results 521-540 of 3,998 for speaker:Michael Harty
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017) Michael Harty: The committee will meet the Health Products Regulatory Authority on 13 April to discuss the report it has sent us. On 5 April the committee will conduct pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill sponsored by Deputy Gino Kenny. Does anybody in the country avail of medicinal cannabis on a medical prescription at present?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017) Michael Harty: I thank the Minister and Ms Prendergast for coming before the committee and assisting us with our consideration of the Revised Estimates and programmes. The briefing documents prepared by the financial scrutiny team, which I have been using this morning, make extensive use of graphs and charts to present the financial and performance-related information contained in the Estimates and it is...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017) Michael Harty: Does the committee wish the secretariat to identify items on the committee's work programme that might benefit from a similar approach?
- Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (2 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Revised (or Supplementary) Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2017: Vote 38 — Department of Health.
- Commission of Investigation into the Grace case: Motion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: The Grace case illustrates a lack of proper governance, accountability and transparency within the HSE. It amply illustrates the dysfunctionality that exists in the HSE. Some 15 months ago, the CEO of the HSE said that it is an amorphous mass that nobody understands, that it lacks vision and a long-term plan. When Dr. Aidan Halligan was offered the post of CEO of the HSE in 2004, he looked...
- Commission of Investigation into the Grace case: Motion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: It has become impersonal, detached and unresponsive in human terms. Bureaucracy is more important than patient outcomes and proper service delivery. Patients become service users and doctors, nurses and allied professionals become service providers. There is a Kafkaesque language used by the HSE. Initially, the apology was made to the service user without referring to her by name or...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: The eighth amendment states: "The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right". The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 defines the circumstances under which termination of pregnancy is allowed, namely,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: 453. To ask the Minister for Health the commitment required of a GMS doctor to fulfil a full GMS contract in regard to surgery hours and availability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11189/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: 792. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 614 of 21 February 2017, and in view of the fact that the licence exchange agreement is already fully in place in British Columbia as it has accepted Irish licences since early 2016, the reason a timeframe for an agreement from the Irish side in regard to accepting British Columbian licences, which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: This meeting will be carried live on Saorview channel 22, Virgin Media channel 207, eir Vision channel 504 and Sky channel 574 and Vodafone channels - Oireachtas TV 201, Dáil 207 and Seanad 208. Members are requested to switch off their phones or switch them to airplane mode so as not to interfere with the recording of the meeting. All public meetings are broadcast in a replay loop...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Nolan. I ask members who came into the room after the meeting commenced to turn off their mobile phones because they will interfere with the recording of the proceedings of the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Lennon. I will open up the discussion to members of the committee. Two members are offering, Deputies Kate O'Connell and Jonathan O'Brien. We will take their questions together.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you very much, Deputy Kelleher. Dr. Nolan, will you start by taking some of those questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you. Would Mr. Lennon or his colleagues from the Department like to answer some of the questions posed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Lennon. We will proceed to the next group, Deputy Bernard J. Durkan, Senator Colm Burke and Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you, Dr. Nolan. Deputy Boyd Barrett felt that one of his questions had not been answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: I wish to ask the delegates a number of questions to seek clarification. If primary legislation is required, it will take up to 18 months to complete. If secondary legislation is introduced, it will take six months. People can only access medicinal cannabis products via the licensing process. Is there sufficient confidence, based on the report, that the Minister can issue licences...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you, Deputy O'Brien. Deputy O'Connell is next and then Deputy Boyd Barrett. Please keep your interventions brief, if you can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: In that scenario, the license would only refer to products containing THC.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: No such requirement is in place for products containing CBD.