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Select Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (11 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: It reads, "Any person registered pursuant to subsection (4A) shall be required to confine their practice to musculoskeletal therapy".

Select Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (11 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending. I also thank the members of the committee for their consideration of the Bill. We hope that the negotiations that are required will take place in a very prompt manner.

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (11 Jul 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 Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017 and has made no amendments thereto.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Coroners Service (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: 27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation as a matter of urgency which will provide for mandatory and automatic referral of all maternity-related deaths here to the coroner for inquest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33375/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Coroners Service (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: I ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline his plans to introduce legislation as a matter of urgency to provide for mandatory and automatic referral of all maternity-related deaths to the coroner for inquest and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Coroners Service (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: I acknowledge the contribution made on this issue by Deputy Clare Daly. It was also raised in the Dáil this morning by Deputy Howlin. This is a question of openness and accountability. It is not about apportioning blame for maternal deaths. Rather, it is about acknowledging what happened when there is a maternity-related death and to learn the lessons from that incident. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Coroners Service (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank the Minister. He and many other Deputies are committed to the issue, as are the many city and county councils around the country that have debated it and endorsed the sentiment of having a mandatory and automatic inquest. Will the Minister confirm that all maternity units are identifying all of their maternity deaths in their annual reports? Are national statistics being...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: I welcome the creation of the new Department of rural and community affairs. Following the negotiations on the programme for Government last year, the Rural Independent Group was very disappointed that we did not get an independent Department to look after rural affairs. I am very happy that with the change of leadership there has been a change of attitude in that regard. The Minister,...

Summer Economic Statement 2017: Statements (13 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: If we introduce tax cuts and reduce the USC in this upcoming budget, we will fail to deliver on legacy service deficits. I am referring to the health service, in particular. The economy is growing, yet our health service is deteriorating. How can that be? The lack of capacity in our hospitals and staffing and infrastructural deficits are now leading to institutional bottlenecks in our...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (26 Jul 2017)

Michael Harty: 1456. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the problems encountered by many small child care providers that do not have the resources to deal with the complicated administrative rules for the operation of child care payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36088/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (11 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: 512. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the safeguards he envisages the EU will put in place to protect the rights of Irish citizens living in the UK, including Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38517/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (11 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: 745. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has put in place for the unwinding of FEMPI in view of the fact that it applies to general practitioner GMS fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38518/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (11 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: 1238. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken to implement the recommendations in the Sláintecare report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38481/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: 1239. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a scheme for sustainable rural general practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38482/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (11 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: 1240. To ask the Minister for Health the type of procedures and the number of each type of procedure which have been carried out under the national treatment purchase fund to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38483/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: 1241. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE indemnified a pharmaceutical company against litigation in the event of vaccines causing damaging adverse reactions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38484/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (11 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: 1242. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a nursing home (details supplied) does not have a medical officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Subsidies (11 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: 1377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the safeguards he envisages being put in place to maintain Common Agricultural Policy payments to persons when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38516/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (26 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: 397. To ask the Minister for Health when the access scheme for medicinal cannabis products will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40687/17]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Michael Harty: I will make a proposal to the Minister of State that I made to the Minister regarding a solution - not the solution - to the housing situation in Dublin and other high-pressure areas. There is a surplus of housing in rural Ireland. There are many vacant properties in provincial towns and villages. We should be able to marry the pressure for housing in Dublin with the availability of...