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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank the Minister of State. Everybody is enthusiastic to contribute. I am trying to be as fair as possible. I invite Senator Dolan to speak and then, once his questions have been answered, I will call Senator Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I ask the Senator to concentrate on the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: Yes, but we need to have the answers as well within the seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I have a question for the Minister on the GP contract. I declare that I am a GP. I have spoken to the Minister about this on many occasions and do not expect him to negotiate the GP contract on the floor of the health committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: Yesterday I met with eight trainee GPs who are about to graduate this summer. If the contract negotiations are about adding extra money or services to the existing contract, none of those GPs is going to sign it. It is not about the money, it is about the conditions of service, and I think that is the critical point when the Minister is engaging with the organisations. Of course money is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I must move on to Senator Mullen. I am sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I am sorry, Deputy, but we will have to move on because we are running out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: Senator, please, give the Minister an opportunity to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: Senator Mullen, I understand the issue was brought up-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: -----but the issue is not substantive to this meeting-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: -----which is to review the health service.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: Sorry, Senator, but I have to wind down that section of the questioning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank the three visitors to the committee for their patience. I will call them in the following order: Deputy Ruth Coppinger, Senator Rose Conway-Walsh and Deputy David Cullinane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I am conscious of time and will bring in Senator Conway-Walsh and then Deputy Cullinane. We need to vacate the room as the Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care is meeting here at 1.30 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I ask the Senator to finish up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I had many questions for the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: I have reduced them to one. The Minister committed to a Government response to Sláintecare "before December", "early in the new year", "before Easter", "after Easter" and "soon". Could he give a commitment regarding when the Government's response will be approved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)
Michael Harty: This year?