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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: I really enjoyed this session. Returning to the shared equity scheme, I am critical of it and share the ESRI's concerns. We are teasing it out from every angle in my own parliamentary party. I understand the ESRI's concerns. I have seen what has happened internationally. The witnesses will have read the steps the Minister is seeking to take maybe to try to obviate its worst effects. ...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: That is really useful. I wish to press the officials further on the EU Commission report. Could they save the committee a little work and have one of the team forward the salient aspects of that to the committee?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: That would be useful. My second question relates to capital investment. It is close to home for many people. It relates to further extensions and expansions of MetroLink. That would be a major issue for parts of Dublin. Then everyone would have their project. There is nothing wrong with these projects. I will not hold the ESRI to the specific MetroLink I have in mind, but is that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: I thank the chief executive officer, Mr. Reid, and his team for their public service. I can imagine that there is pressure and more pressure from the beginning of every day to the end. For our part, I express an appreciation of how Mr. Reid, his team and the wider HSE organisation have operated in this pressurised environment. There is no indication that pressure is going to let up. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: That is enough for me. Mr. Reid might also be able to answer this genuine question on the figures for me. The number of people referred to in Mr. Reid's previous answer is a huge jump. The census in 2016 estimated that there were just over 32,000 people aged 65 years old and over in what are called communal establishments, of which almost 23,000 were in nursing homes and the remaining...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: Okay, so the figure then is about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: It might be helpful if-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: Yes, it would be helpful if that breakdown could be supplied. There have been reports about the vaccination programme, and this process has been frustrating for everybody, with peaks and troughs. Mr. Reid will appreciate that several anticipated game changers to date have fallen short. The latest good news story relates to an anticipated game changer, namely, the Johnson & Johnson...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: Over what period?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: It is to be hoped there will be 600,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccines supplied in quarter 2.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: It is a single jab.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: Okay. It is fair to say that the public is waiting for an abundant supply in quarter 2. Is Mr. Reid beginning to cast doubts on that? What does he think would be the total supply for quarter 2 if everybody delivered what they say they will?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: I wish the HSE well with the supply. I refer to antigen testing in meat plants. Mr. Reid said in a recent interview that there was some testing - not antigen testing - going on in meat plants. Could he develop and quantify that and say a bit more about antigen testing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: Has the HSE visited every meat plant?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: Out of how many?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: If I have heard Ms O'Beirne correctly, the HSE has visited every meat plant once a month at this stage and twice weekly testing is coming on stream in terms of antigen testing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: Does Dr. Doherty know when that might commence?
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: Based on some of the criticisms that have been voiced during the week, I want to talk for a moment on what motivates us in politics. I can only talk personally about that. There is the kind of thing we hear when the public says we are all in it for the money, or the lifestyle, whatever that is. Today has been a useful occasion for me, in advance of this speech, to reflect on what motivates...
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: I thank the Deputy and call the next speaker on the Government side, Deputy Hourigan, who is sharing with Deputy Cathal Crowe. The final speaker before Leaders' Questions will be Deputy Bríd Smith.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Podiatry Services (4 Mar 2021)
John Lahart: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care as of 1 March 2021 or the latest date available; and the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52 weeks. [12420/21]