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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Some of my constituents live here and may have been working abroad under contract and have been fully vaccinated. I absolutely support hotel quarantine, but I do not get why there is an insistence on it for those who have a house here, are fully vaccinated and quite willing to quarantine at home. As two fully vaccinated people here are allowed to meet, why is there an insistence on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: So two vaccinated people being allowed to meet makes sense because, obviously, they have both been vaccinated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: It is the variant; I get that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Okay. I will stop Dr. Glynn there. That was a comprehensive answer. It would be very useful if he could arrange for a brief paper on that issue to be sent to the committee because it is a question that often comes up from constituents. My final question also relates to constituents. GPs have received calls this morning, politicians have received emails and calls in the past 24 hours...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I thank Mr. O'Brien.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: This abundance of caution is something that we are learning about, just as NPHET is. Perhaps NPHET is also going to have to exercise this caution potentially with another vaccine or two as they come along. There is a significant piece of work to be done here. It is about reassuring people. The clear message from Dr. Glynn today seems to imply that a GP could address the concerns on a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: But NPHET is ruling out a choice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: All the talk of root canals has brought me out in goosebumps and a rash. I say that humorously but half very definitely not humorously. My colleague, Deputy Cullinane, asked a number of questions I wanted to ask. If I were to summarise by saying the focus of the DTSS tends to be reactive as opposed to proactive, would that be a good summary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I meant to thank Mr. Hourihan, Dr. McAllister and Dr. Robins at the start. Maybe Mr. Hourihan could give us some information on that. The fixation on extractions struck me as being slightly Dickensian. From a business angle, what is the difference between the cost of an extraction and the cost of a filling and what kind of time is involved? Is there any reason extractions were favoured...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: That is what I picked up and that is very important for us in any kind of findings. A number of my colleagues asked the questions I wanted to ask and the witnesses have answered them. There are a couple of others I want to ask. It is not that I missed them. I am really keen on the answers the witnesses gave. Dentists were not the only ones to whom the HSE failed to deliver PPE. The HSE...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: It seems that this should not be the role of the Irish Dental Association but, rather, that of the HSE. I am sure the witnesses are far too busy in their working lives to have noticed it but we published a report yesterday on vitamin D. The public have been much more aware of that because of Covid and the context of it. I am taken with what the witnesses have said about being taken for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Are dentists in the public care system still involved in testing and tracing or have they gone back into the community? Is it included as part of primary care? I know it is a stupid question from a politician.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: That is noted. Dr. Robins and Dr. O'Neill wanted to respond too.
- Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the "RTÉ Investigates" programme on this issue. I wish to put on record that the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, is blameless in regard to this matter. It is important to state that. I thank the Minister of State for being here. She has come to this place after only eight months in office. The question for me is how did we get...
- Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: We have eight minutes remaining rather than ten. In the interests of impartiality, I was generous with regard to ministerial responses. Deputy McAuliffe has three minutes and the Minister has the remainder of the time available. I ask that this be reflected on the clock.
- Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Not at this point. I will give the Minister plenty of latitude at the end.
- Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I did not ask the Minister.
- Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: The Minister may respond to Deputy Healy-Rae but I will take time from the Minister's final contribution. I have been quite generous in the time he has been given and we are up against the clock because of Leaders' Questions. I ask him to be conscious of that.
- Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: The Deputy may ask a question but the answer will not come until the very end.