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Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Interestingly, I received an email in the past few days from the National Women's Council which will have a seminar next week on considering the inclusion of the value of care in the Constitution. 6 o’clock Certainly, it is something I would support. I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health, where I would have mentioned this previously, as well as at public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update with regard to proposed works at a school (details supplied). [44542/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update with regard to the outstanding works that are necessary at a school (details supplied). [44543/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the request by a school (details supplied) for a new school building [44553/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update with regard to a new school announced last year (details supplied). [44555/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the witnesses for sharing their expertise with us. I have several questions. I do not normally ask "Yes" or "No" questions but I do have one for Dr. Twomey. Dr. Lyne said there are some exceptions to what Dr Twomey said, where palliative care, medicines and whatever is available simply do not work. Does Dr. Twomey accept this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I invite any of the witnesses to answer my questions. I was very taken with what Dr. O'Shea said about burden. It seems that a sense of being a burden cannot always be relieved. Taking into account all of the evidence we have heard on the type of model we might veer towards, which, in my view, would be very restrictive whereby someone would have to have a terminal illness, if I felt as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Is Dr. Colleran saying that is contradictory?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I was referring to the mental capacity, but I thank Dr. Colleran for that intervention.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Consider, for example, that someone has passed away and Dr. O'Shea has known them, it is his job to eulogise that person, and the person had chosen assisted dying. I am putting Dr. O'Shea on the spot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank our witnesses. The Irish Hospital Consultants Association paper was very informative in trying to balance the two views. One of the lines that struck me from it is that rarely are two medical circumstances the same. I am not speaking for the general public but that is probably news to a lot of people in the sense that conditions are conditions. It is certainly my impression and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I will come back to Dr. O'Shea and perhaps he could first address the malevolent piece.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: How does that manifest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: That is very valuable. We will probably hear more of that. I ask Dr. Lyne to comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I have found these contributions useful at least from the perspective of this not being where I want to go. I have a reasonably open mind, although as to how open, we will discover in time, but the Canadian model seems to have happened by accident. I think MAID is such an unfortunate acronym. I may sound preachy and I want to respect all the witnesses, but I just think of a maid and,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline progress on the new well-being-counselling initiative that she announced and introduced this year, and which has been warmly welcomed by the education partners and sector. [44807/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Following on from the Minister’s very welcome introduction of the new well-being and counselling initiative for primary schools earlier this year, which has been warmly welcomed by the education partners and the sector as a whole, will she update the House on the structures under the initiative, including the employment of counsellors, how the process is working and being advertised...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I welcome the reply. This is a very radical and dynamic innovation on the Minister’s part. It will be one of a number of things for which she will be remembered. It represents a shift in the funding mechanism of the Government, for example. I have long believed that every Department has a role to play in well-being and mental health so it is not only the Department of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: The Minister is being characteristically modest about the introduction of this initiative. I will highlight some other issues. I particularly welcome that she is allowing the professional organisations most associated with this area to contribute in a meaningful way so that children, schools and parents can be reassured that those who will take on this role with their children are fully...