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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Engagement with Department of Health Oversight Group (30 May 2018)

Michael Harty: In its deliberations so far, what has it found to be the main inhibitors for implementing A Vision for Change? What are the barriers to implementation? We have been through this with the Sláintecare report and we have identified barriers to implementation. What barriers has the group found in its deliberations? We have looked at three primary areas, namely, primary care, recruitment...

Topical Issue Debate: Educational Supports (30 May 2018)

Michael Harty: I have visited the centre in the King Thomond Hotel in Lisdoonvarna and the facilities are of a very high standard. The asylum seekers are looked after very well and assimilating into the community. In spite of the many reservations of the local community, they are being welcomed and their adult educational needs and other requirements are being met. The school is in exceptional...

Topical Issue Debate: Educational Supports (30 May 2018)

Michael Harty: I raise the issue of Lisdoonvarna national school. Lisdoonvarna is a very famous town in County Clare. The school has had to take in 18 extra pupils over the past three months because a direct provision centre opened in Lisdoonvarna at the beginning of March and now has 115 asylum seekers, 18 of which are schoolgoing children attending the primary school. The sudden influx of pupils has...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Michael Harty: I refer to the programme for Government commitment to look at a ten-year vision for our health service and to deliver a health service reform on the basis of it. The Joint Committee on the Future of Healthcare met for 11 months and produced the Sláintecare report. This is the first anniversary - 365 days - of the publication of the Sláintecare report and the Government has not yet...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Michael Harty: The Government is losing the trust of the medical profession and the people. Are the HSE and the Department of Health the biggest vested interests in delivering a response? Is the Government deconstructing Sláintecare and reconstructing it according to the Government's own policy?

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Michael Harty: I think so. It is very difficult to follow that contribution from Deputy Clare Daly and I want to acknowledge it. There was raw emotion in that contribution. The people have spoken in a strong, clear voice to repeal the eighth amendment. It is quite obvious that the Irish people put substantial thought into their decision. They put quiet, emotional thought into their decision. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)

Michael Harty: I will make just a few comments. Senator Dolan will be able to fill in for me. I apologise for being late. There was an accident on the N7 on the way up and, unfortunately, we were diverted off the motorway. I am sorry to have missed the personal testimonies. I was in the audiovisual room a number of months ago when Senator Dolan brought in witnesses to give their life histories and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)

Michael Harty: I will make just a few comments. Senator Dolan will be able to fill in for me. I apologise for being late. There was an accident on the N7 on the way up and, unfortunately, we were diverted off the motorway. I am sorry to have missed the personal testimonies. I was in the audiovisual room a number of months ago when Senator Dolan brought in witnesses to give their life histories and to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Levels (29 May 2018)

Michael Harty: 298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if serious crime is on the rise in County Clare in view of comments by a judge at Ennis Circuit Criminal Court that extra sittings are needed to deal with the increasing number of criminal cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23693/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (29 May 2018)

Michael Harty: 299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to make the application process for installing crime preventing CCTV systems less arduous in view of the fact that the take-up for the scheme to date has been small; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23694/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Closures (24 May 2018)

Michael Harty: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if IDA Ireland and her Department are searching for a replacement industry for County Clare in view of the announcement in November 2015 by a company (details supplied) of its plan to close its plant in Clarecastle with the loss of 240 high-quality jobs. [22964/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Closures (24 May 2018)

Michael Harty: I wish to ask the Minister of State a direct question. In November 2015, the pharmaceutical company, Roche, announced its intention to close its pharmaceutical plant in Clarecastle, in the constituency of Clare, which we share, with the loss of 240 high-quality jobs. The Minister of State is from County Clare. Are IDA Ireland and the Department still searching for a replacement industry...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Closures (24 May 2018)

Michael Harty: It has taken the Minister of State two and a half minutes to tell me that there is no new buyer for the company. Three years after the company announced the plant's closure with the loss of 240 jobs - and also the loss of the subcontractor jobs that went into supplying services to the plan - the Minister of State is telling me there is still no buyer. A replacement is critical for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Closures (24 May 2018)

Michael Harty: I will come back to the fundamental question, namely, the need to get a new company to come in and operate the existing facility in Clarecastle. It is a piece of infrastructure that cannot be allowed to fall away and rust. The Minister's predecessors, Deputies Fitzgerald, Mitchell O'Connor and Bruton also committed to finding a replacement industry for this plant. They have visited the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Michael Harty: The purpose of the first of our two sessions is to meet the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine, ACSLM, and the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association, MLSA, in order to gain a greater understanding of the screening programmes, with a particular emphasis on cervical smear tests. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Irene Regan, Ms Marie Culliton and Dr. Helen Lambkin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Casey. This committee is very anxious to find out exactly what happened regarding the outsourcing and awarding of contracts for cervical screening testing. Having heard the two submissions, three issues arise, one relating to costs, one relating to standards and one relating to outsourcing. The witnesses might address the issue of their view of the HSE's decision to outsource....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Michael Harty: Was there any issue regarding standards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Michael Harty: Were Irish laboratories training cytologists and increasing capacity in anticipation of the national screening programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Michael Harty: That was prevented by the HSE outsourcing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Michael Harty: The outsourcing led to the abandonment, as it were, of training cytologists because they would not have had any work to do.