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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: While there may be only 23 vacancies, vacancies are no longer counted when a list is not filled and a general practitioner's patients are dispersed to surrounding lists. Many villages and towns no longer have a general practitioner, yet the vacant positions are no longer counted or identified. I am sure there are four or five practices in each county which, having failed to attract a GP,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: There may be 23 current vacancies but the number of areas that have lost their general practitioner and will never have another GP is far in excess of 23 because lists are amalgamated or dispersed to surrounding practices.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: The next group of speakers will be Senator Dolan, followed by Deputy O'Connell and Senator Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I might bring in the final two members, given there is pressure on time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: We agreed five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Deputy Durkan had to go to the Chamber for Question Time. I have a few questions. Mr. O'Brien's opening statement referred to a 6% increase in accident and emergency attendances, a significant number of which are patients over the age of 75. Patients aged over 75 will stay longer in hospital and have more complex needs. We certainly need a response to our ageing population and changing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: The cross-border health care directive may not be commonly known. If a patient who requires a treatment that cannot be provided in this jurisdiction can locate to an institution or doctor that can provide that treatment outside Ireland, the patient is entitled to receive that treatment and have the cost reimbursed by the HSE. I wish to sow an idea in the Minister's mind. Deputy Kelly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I do not want to interrupt but someone's phone is interfering with the recording.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Before there is another contribution, the Minister of State, Deputy Daly, has to attend the Seanad at 5 o'clock. If there are any questions the Minister of State wishes to address, he might do so prior to the next contributions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I asked about OPD waiting lists.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Deputy Durkan had to go to the Dáil to ask a question. He has returned so we will give him the last word.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Durkan. I invite the Minister, Ministers of State and Mr. Tony O'Brien to make their final comments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: On behalf of the joint committee I thank the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris and Ministers of State, Deputies Catherine Byrne, Jim Daly and Finian McGrath for coming before us. I thank Mr. Tony O'Brien, Mr. Jim Breslin and the officials from the HSE for giving their time to this committee. As there is no further business, I propose we adjourn. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Committee on the Future of Healthcare Report: Motion (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: He should visit them in an unsanitised way. He should talk to front-line staff. Quite often, if there is a problem in a hospital, when one talks to the junior staff or the lady who works in the canteen, they can say what is happening in the hospital and, of course, higher management will have its own view. If one talks to people who experience things every day, one will get a far greater...
- Committee on the Future of Healthcare Report: Motion (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: I would also like to echo my appreciation and thanks to the chairman of our committee, Deputy Róisín Shortall, who did an excellent job in keeping us all together and encouraging us throughout the 11 months the committee sat to draw up this report. I also thank the secretarial staff and those who helped us from Trinity College. They were essential in getting this report completed...
- Select Committee on Health: Mental Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Please note that this meeting will be carried live on Saorview channel 22, Virgin Media channel 207, eirVision channel 504, Sky channel 574 and Vodafone channels - Oireachtas TV 201, Dáil 207 and Seanad 208. Members are requested to switch off their phones or switch them to airplane mode so as not to interfere with the recording of the meeting. This meeting has been convened to...
- Select Committee on Health: Mental Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Are there any further comments?
- Select Committee on Health: Mental Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Is the Minister proposing that this amendment would be put on Report Stage?
- Select Committee on Health: Mental Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: Is the section agreed?
- Select Committee on Health: Mental Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)
Michael Harty: The Minister of State has not put in an amendment.