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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you very much, Ms Spillane. I now call Ms Joanna O'Riordan of the Institute of Public Administration to make her opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms O'Riordan. I will now open the discussion to members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you very much, Senator Kelleher. Perhaps we might deal with those questions directly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you very much, Ms Spillane. I now call Ms Joanna O'Riordan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you, Ms O'Riordan. I call Senator Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you very much, Senator Burke. Would you like to make some comments on that, Ms Spillane?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you very much, Ms O'Riordan. I will now ask a few questions-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: In regard to the agency, evidence provided last week showed that almost 8,000 cases of suspected adult abuse were reported to the HSE, and the National Centre for the Protection of Older People estimated that there were 32,000 people over the age of 65 who were mistreated last year. That is a huge volume of work to be placed on an existing agency. I am sure HIQA is stretched to the limit of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: What about mandatory reporting as opposed to voluntary reporting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you very much, Ms Spillane. I call Senator Kelleher.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you. Are there any other issues that Senator Kelleher wishes to raise?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you, Senator Kelleher. I call Deputy Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you, Deputy Durkan. I call Deputy O'Connell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: I call Mr. Niall Redmond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: I raise another issue which is a provision in the Bill, namely, the provision of independent advocates to represent vulnerable people who cannot represent themselves. Have the witnesses any comments on how they would be provided, who they would be, or how they would be identified?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you very much. On behalf of the committee, I thank Ms Frances Spillane, Mr. Niall Redmond and Ms Joanna O'Riordan for coming in and for giving their time and expert opinions on this important matter.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: I also speak in favour of this motion. This is an issue which is not confined to Cork. It also relates to boundary changes in Waterford and Kilkenny regarding Ferrybank, Roscommon and Westmeath regarding Monksland, and also in Clare and Limerick. In the last case it proved a very contentious issue in 2011 when Limerick city proposed to annex a portion of south east Clare into Limerick...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (17 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: 277. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the HSE to review its decision and the processes used in arriving at the decision not to approve for reimbursement of the drug Translarna for treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in view of the fact that many other countries have given such approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43401/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (17 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: 404. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to intervene in the unprecedented High Court appeal brought by a company (details supplied) against the HSE decision not to reimburse for Translarna for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in two persons in view of the fact that this legal process will be more costly than providing the drug and may result in these two persons missing...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (17 Oct 2017)
Michael Harty: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE will work towards an interim arrangement to treat the persons with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who require Translarna here should a lengthy legal process unfold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44064/17]