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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Michael Harty: The purpose of this hearing and this committee is not to be in any way destructive. The purpose of the committee is to be constructive. I understand the misgivings the witnesses have but we are trying to be constructive. Questions have been asked about how we can improve the service. There are obvious lessons that can be learned from today's hearing. From my own experience, lack of...
- Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (22 May 2018)
Michael Harty: In County Clare, those who run 14 post offices have been offered exit packages. Rather than being offered extra services supplied through the post offices, they are being asked to leave the service when they do not want to do so. The Minister spoke about there being no compulsory closures but, effectively, what is being offered to the postmasters amounts to compulsory closure. They are...
- Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (22 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for choosing this Topical Issue today. I thank the Minister for coming in to respond. We have had many discussions about the sustainability of the post office network over the past two years. It boils down to expanding the services the network can deliver. It effectively depends on the Government devolving more Government services to post offices and...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Regulations (22 May 2018)
Michael Harty: 494. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the necessary powers will be provided to Clare County Council and each local authority to address the illegal parking of caravans and camper vans on public and private roads, rights of way and non-designated camp sites; if powers to remove and impound illegally parked caravans and to confiscate unclaimed caravans in a timely...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: The purpose of this morning's session is to meet officials from the Department of Health and representatives from the Health Service Executive, HSE, and CervicalCheck in order to get further clarification on the evolving situation in CervicalCheck, including the processes surrounding open disclosure, the quality of the screening programme and the impact this has on medical care of women. On...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Breslin. Could Dr. Holohan make his opening statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Connaghan. The way we will conduct the meeting this morning is we will offer each member of the committee 12 minutes to ask and receive answers to questions and I ask them to observe the time limit, if possible. Those who are not members of the committee will be allocated five minutes to ask questions and have them answered. With this in mind, I will begin. I have number of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: When might that information be available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I am sorry, but to return to HPV testing, is it not a combination of HPV testing and cytology that is to be instituted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I am sorry to interrupt-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: My question was did Dr. McKenna think it was the responsibility of CervicalCheck to communicate directly with the patient as opposed to through a third party.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: My time is probably running out, but I did ask a question about why the matter had not been brought to a higher authority within the Department of Health and the HSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Breslin. We have to move on. We will get an opportunity to come back to some questions. I will now introduce the spokespersons for the various parties.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: It was 2016.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: Would the HSE handle that matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. O'Keeffe. I call Senator Colm Burke. He is to be followed by Deputies Kate O'Connell and Margaret Murphy O'Mahony.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: Can we have the answer to that question and then we will move on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I call Deputy O'Connell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: The Deputy has 12 minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Michael Harty: You have two more minutes, Deputy Durkan.