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- Select Committee on Health: Mental Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Is anyone objecting to the amendment?
- Select Committee on Health: Mental Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: As amendments Nos. 2 and 3 are related, they may be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Health: Mental Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Do the Minister of State or Deputy Browne want to make any further comments?
- Select Committee on Health: Mental Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Browne for attending this morning's meeting. I also thank the Minister of State and his advisers for being in attendance.
- Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (22 Jun 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 Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017 and has made an amendment thereto.
- Anti-Malarial Medication: Motion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I welcome this motion and will be supporting it. There is a well-known Latin tag used in the medical profession which is "primum non nocere" meaning "first do no harm". This applies to all interventions in medical practice, including prescribing when treating diseases as well as actions which are designed to prevent disease. Malaria is a very serious disease which can be debilitating,...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: The provisions in this Judicial Appointments Commission Bill represent key commitments in A Programme for Partnership Government and should come as no surprise to the Judiciary or anybody else. Reform of the judicial appointments process is to ensure it is transparent, fair and credible. A Programme for Partnership Government proposes to address the process of judicial appointments and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: As we now have a quorum, I call the meeting to order. I propose that we deal with housekeeping matters in private session. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: The purpose of this meeting is to allow the Minister and his officials and the director general of the HSE and his staff to update this committee on key health care issues. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris. He is accompanied by the Minister of State with special responsibility for older people, Deputy Jim Daly, who I congratulate on his...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank the Minister and call on Mr. Tony O'Brien, the CEO of the HSE, to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. O'Brien. I am going to open the meeting to members for questions and contributions. I remind members that they might limit their contributions to five minutes, without curtailing discussion. They might also be precise in their questions. The same might apply to the answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: All speakers can be concise and direct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: One.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Would the Minister like to lead off on some of those questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: There were two other questions which were not responded to. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked for an explanation of the decrease in suicide numbers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: On the recruitment of GPs, there are of course difficulties in rural practice and these are well documented. There is now a problem, however, in filling GP lists in urban centres. When a GP retires or when a GP has an assistant who then emigrates or moves on, there is great difficulty in recruiting replacements. GPs can obviously get ill or die when still in practice and this can be an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: While there may be only 23 vacancies, vacancies are no longer counted when a list is not filled and a general practitioner's patients are dispersed to surrounding lists. Many villages and towns no longer have a general practitioner, yet the vacant positions are no longer counted or identified. I am sure there are four or five practices in each county which, having failed to attract a GP,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: There may be 23 current vacancies but the number of areas that have lost their general practitioner and will never have another GP is far in excess of 23 because lists are amalgamated or dispersed to surrounding practices.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: The next group of speakers will be Senator Dolan, followed by Deputy O'Connell and Senator Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I might bring in the final two members, given there is pressure on time.