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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (10 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: That is a good reply and some of the figures in that are positive. Can the millions of euro saved be quantified? Is there any figure for that or does the Minister of State have any sense of how much has been saved by the State and individual consumers in premiums due to the work of PIAB? What has been the general impact of those reduced awards? Almost three-quarters of the awards are now...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (10 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: That is welcome. PIAB is effective and what the Minister of State is proposing in the Bill is to expand its remit so that it can deal with more cases. Some of these cases are of a psychological nature, which PIAB does not currently deal with as I understand it from what he said. That is also welcome and he essentially said it has resulted in a fifteen-fold reduction, or close to it. It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (10 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: The question is in regard to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. I am looking to get a report from the Minister on the work of PIAB last year and the plans for PIAB this year. In that context, I welcome the fact the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, secured agreement yesterday to draft his personal injuries resolution board Bill, so the question is timely.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 20. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will be bringing forward new policy proposals in the wake of the case of a company (details supplied). [6807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (10 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 93. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has plans to reform the Personal Injuries Assessment Board. [6808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged with the Garda Commissioner regarding actions being taken to address the incidence of knife crime. [7106/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I can see the committee is kind of balanced, in terms of some of the views coming out, that it does not like private sector home care. A member of my family was in receipt of private sector family home care and that care was second to none. The employees were an absolute credit to the provider. I wish to put that on record. I am told the HSE pays, on average, €30 to €32...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: That would be helpful. There is so much to get through. The representatives of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland raised the issue of the low levels of training. There is a specific aspect of that I wish to raise. I am wondering what is being done about it because it came up at a meeting of another committee that I attended in respect of gender equality. It is quite a significant issue....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: Is there awareness of the gender issue, which is an emerging one? It only came up last year in the context of another issue. It took me by surprise but it is actually quite obvious. Particularly with older people, it can be a very private and personal thing because of the generation from which they come.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have a final question, if I may.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have received a couple of queries about why people cannot choose their own home care provider when they know someone locally, in cases where the HSE cannot allocate one to them. In my constituency, I have become aware of the issue of childcare. I happen to be the director of a social enterprise. We are not big on social enterprise in Ireland. In Ireland we tend to associate enterprise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I would like to mention another issue which may not appear to be connected but is. A PhD student in my constituency came to me recently with a very detailed and interesting questionnaire about our housing stock. I thought it was about social housing stock, but it was about housing stock in a particular part of the constituency from the point of view of people being able to remain in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: Very often local government intervenes when a person becomes less able or incapacitated and it is almost at the point of crisis. All of the witnesses who came before the committee today could offer something really valuable in terms of how the State could anticipate that in order to ensure it is possible for people to stay in their homes for as long as possible. What is the experience of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: I have had direct experience of the issue of travel. Carers are predominantly female. Depending on when shifts end, in a 24-hour shift divided between people, a young woman could leave a house in a particular area at 10 p.m. or midnight. Given the focus on events arising in the past month, what kind of concerns do care workers express about that? I am sure there is some kind of preference...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: The travel issue has been a major factor in the contributions from NGOs at this meeting. The compensation piece does not seem to be equitably distributed across HSE regions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his strategy to support students impacted by domestic violence including access to SUSI supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6372/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to encourage and support students of DEIS schools to access further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6373/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: 719. To ask the Minister for Health if National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, has carried out an up to date evidence-based risk assessment and risk-benefit analysis on the imposition of mask mandates in retail and other settings, particularly bearing in mind the recent lifting of restrictions. [6464/22]