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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Michael Harty: Does Dr. Wingfield have a comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Michael Harty: On our evolution - this is a philosophical question - we have evolved through natural selection but now human science and technology is beginning to interfere with the natural selection process. Are we now entering into an element of science fiction in the sense that we are now creating ourselves?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Michael Harty: The purpose of this committee is to hold a number of hearings and produce a report which will then be laid before the Houses and sent to the Minister. That is what we intend to do. If we can assist the witnesses in any way we will certainly do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Michael Harty: We will formulate a response. Do the witnesses have any further comments to make?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Michael Harty: On behalf of the committee, I thank Professor Wingfield, Dr. Waterstone and Dr. Kennedy for coming through the Irish snow to be with us this morning.

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank the Social Democrats and the Green Party for bringing this motion forward. I will be supporting it. Our housing crisis is obviously getting worse in view of the fact that rents are increasing, as is the number of people in emergency accommodation. The over-reliance on the private sector to solve the problem is a mistake. State intervention is urgently required and the...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for bringing this Bill to the floor of the House. It is the second important Bill to be discussed this evening. The Government's intention not to oppose the Fianna Fáil legislation to bring vulture funds under the control of the Central Bank is to be welcomed. I hope this Bill will not suffer the same fate as many other Private Members' Bills during this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: 173. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the orthopaedic outpatients department has been discontinued at Ennis General Hospital and transferred to Croom, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10757/18]

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Motion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: I wish to share time with Deputy Mattie McGrath. I welcome the process of starting full ratification - I emphasise the word "starting" - and although it is behind time, it is nevertheless welcome. This is an important milestone for those advocating for the rights as outlined in the convention but we still have some distance to go before we have full ratification. The delay of 12 years has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: We are meeting the HSE's national clinical leads for its national clinical programmes on stroke, heart failure and older people, as well as its national director for clinical programmes and strategy in order to hear the views of the individuals concerned and about the progress made in their individual disciplines. On behalf of the joint committee, I welcome Professor Rónán Collins,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank Professor McDonald for his opening statement and I invite Dr. Collins to make his at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank Dr. O'Shea. For the benefit of the committee will the witnesses clarify that as well as their positions as HSE clinical leads in their disciplines, each of them is also a practising physician?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: As I will call on members in groups of three, the witnesses may bank the questions and answer after the third member has completed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: Senator Dolan was going to contribute at this point but he had to leave. Has Deputy Kelleher his thoughts composed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: I urge Dr. Collins to be brief because other members of the committee wish to comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: I wish to make a comment about the HSE presentation before I bring in Senators Dolan and Conway-Walsh. One of the witnesses said that the present system of care is relatively inefficient, ineffective and is ultimately unsustainable and that integration was a key factor in making the system more efficient and effective. Please concentrate on the barriers to integration and what are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank the Senator. I call Senator Rose Conway-Walsh who will be followed by Senator Bernard J. Durkan. I am sorry; I should have said Deputy Bernard J. Durkan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: Speaking as a resourceful GP, that would not be a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: There could be psychological profiles, too, which might throw up some interesting things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: We did not mention ehealth and the single patient record. A patient may be admitted to St. Vincent's Univeristy Hospital, for example, discharged and then admitted to Loughlinstown or some other hospital but with no notes or other communication. The GP often has to be consulted on the patient's background.