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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: What is the situation with scoliosis treatment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: Mr. Breslin and Mr. O'Brien might answer a question about Sláintecare. One of the fundamental recommendations of the Sláintecare report is that there be a reorientation of our health service away from hospital-based services towards primary care ones. However, there is a difficulty in how GP-led primary care is delivered, given the GP manpower crisis. We have difficulties...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: Sorry, but I will ask one question before the Deputy contributes. In terms of workforce planning, does the Department have a vision of how it will approach recruiting? We all know that we need to recruit. Mr. Breslin referred to a satisfactory working arrangement. It is not all about money, but about career satisfaction and progression as well. This issue has a knock-on effect on our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: Did Mr. O'Brien wish to comment on that matter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: Other members are waiting to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I acknowledge the arrival of the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly. The next speaker will be Senator John Dolan followed by Deputy Kate O'Connell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank the Senator. Perhaps the Minister might bank the questions, as I will now bring in Deputies Louise O'Reilly and Kate O'Connell. As they are sitting beside each other, they can keep an eye on each other in order that they do not drag on too long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Deputy O'Connell. We have been here for over two hours. If the witnesses want to take a five minute break we are happy to accommodate that. Are they happy to continue? The witnesses have a large number of questions. Senator Dolan's questions were first. Who wants to take them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Mr. O'Brien. Mr. Breslin was going to address some other issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: Perhaps the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, will respond on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: You were not present when Senator Dolan asked the question so perhaps Senator Dolan will ask it again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I have two questions that either Mr. Breslin or Mr. O'Brien might address. One concerns the funding mechanisms for primary care centres as I understand that there are several different mechanisms to bring these centres into being. Could the witnesses address how these mechanisms function and which is the most successful or commonly used to bring a primary care centre to completion? My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: Does Mr. O'Brien wish to add any comment to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank the Minister, Deputy Harris, for coming back from the Cabinet meeting. He was not indispensable in that we kept going but I thank him for coming back. He probably picked up on the question I was asking on primary care centres. To be parochial, over several years there have been several runs at trying to develop primary care centres in Ennis, and each has failed to date. Perhaps...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: In our Estimates discussion a number of weeks ago, we noted the take from private health insurance coming into the public system was declining. Therefore, the public system is dependent on fairly volatile private insurance income to support public services. That is not a model that can continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank the Minister for coming back for such a short part of the meeting. On behalf of the committee, I thank Mr. Jim Breslin, the Minister, Deputy Harris, the two Ministers of State, Deputy Jim Daly and Deputy Finian McGrath, and Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Woods and Ms Mannion for attending.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (19 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Department of Justice and Equality on introducing legislation to provide safeguarding officers with access to private settings in view of the reported levels of abuse of vulnerable adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44411/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Update on the Next Stages of the Review of A Vision for Change: Department of Health (19 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Kane and Mr. Murchan for coming in this morning. I will deal with two practicalities relating to the priorities of the oversight group. One relates to the integration of primary and secondary care, and the other relates to workforce planning and recruitment. On the integration of primary and secondary care, mental health issues are quite difficult diagnostic issues. So much...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: On page 55 in A Programme for a Partnership Government, there is a commitment to providing additional medical education tutors to the nationwide network of GP tutors. This network provides an opportunity for GPs to engage in continuing professional development and medical education. As the Taoiseach knows, medicine is changing all the time and it is important that GPs keep up to date. Will...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Michael Harty: I am sharing my time with Deputies Danny Healy-Rae and Mattie McGrath. What is euphemistically known as the banking culture which allowed this scandal to happen is a failure to distinguish right from wrong. It is a failure to distinguish honesty from dishonesty, and ethics is at the core of this issue as well as a lack of standards and a lack of compassion. These are perhaps very...