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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Mr. McCabe. I have a few questions myself, then I will call Senator Colm Burke again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)

Michael Harty: We are a little stuck for time. We hope to finish by 11.30 a.m. I will bring Senator Burke's question in. There are a number of concerns among the families of people who are in congregated settings. They wonder how those people are going to manage in their communities if they are decongregated and if proper supports are not put in. The Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Lee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)

Michael Harty: On behalf of the committee, I thank Gary Lee and Michael McCabe from the Centre for Independent Living and Anne Winslow and Joan O'Connor from the Disability Federation of Ireland for attending.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Michael Harty: It is in the programme for Government.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Michael Harty: Will the Taoiseach make sure?

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Michael Harty: I would like to ask the Taoiseach a specific question in regard to the Programme for a Partnership Government. In that, there is a reference to the building of capacity in our emergency departments and, in particular, there is a reference to opening the new accident and emergency department in Limerick regional hospital. The accident and emergency department in that hospital is one of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: Please note that these proceedings will be carried on Saorview, channel 22, Virgin Media, channel 207, Eir Vision, channel 504, and other channels, which I will not read out. I warmly welcome our European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, to this meeting. It is an honour to have him here and I thank him very much for attending. The Commissioner is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: Thank you Commissioner for that comprehensive overview. As I said to you earlier today, we are in the process of developing a report on the future of our health service. Our health service is quite fragmented. It is very inefficient, with long waiting lists for procedures, long waiting lists for outpatients appointments and difficulty in accessing diagnostics. We are trying to move to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: What are the main funding models for health services across Europe? Is there a big variation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: Thank you Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: Commissioner, there were five main topics there. Perhaps you would like to start with the first one, which was the European-wide health service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: Thank you Commissioner. I think you have covered them all, and in less than five hours too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank the Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: Throughout Europe there is a shortage of doctors, particularly in isolated and rural areas. It is probably the most sensitive issue in medicine and it has a knock on effect on the level of out-of-hours cover. We are now proposing to build a health service which will be built on the foundation of primary and community care, but we will have significant difficulties in populating these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: Some of the entry courses to study medicine are directing and exposing people to primary care in their undergraduate education for half a year of their four year course. Also if graduates from rural areas were identified and given opportunities to train to gain particular expertise required when working in rural areas, that would give a much better return than a general education and hoping...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: We have a substantial housing crisis in Ireland. Some 7,000 people are living in emergency accommodation or in hotels. More than 2.500 children are living in emergency accommodation. We have difficulty in drawing down funds from Europe on the balance sheet and also off the balance sheet. We are limited in the amount of funds we can draw from Europe in relation to our housing crisis...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: I will allow Deputy Durkan one last question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: On behalf of the committee I thank Commissioner Andriukaitis for his attendance today and for covering a range of topics. We could spend hours speaking about them. The Commissioner spoke about healthy aging. End of life issues are very significant, not only in Ireland but across Europe. Discussion is centring on advance directives and how people want to be managed in their later years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (23 May 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank the Commissioner for his time and for addressing all of the issues raised. I also thank his staff Mr. Marco Valletta, Mr. Gerry Kiely, Mr. Paola Colombo and Ms Vilija Sysaite for attending today.