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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017) Michael Harty: Before we conclude, I want to raise two points regarding mental health. The incidence of suicide in Ireland is frightening. It is in excess of 500 a year and almost two and half times that of deaths in road traffic accidents. In relation to what Deputy Louise O'Reilly said, the lack of talk therapy treatments is a issue not only in Dublin but right throughout the country. In my area, we...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017) Michael Harty: Of course.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017) Michael Harty: The committee will meet the Health Products Regulatory Authority on 13 April to discuss the report it has sent us. On 5 April the committee will conduct pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill sponsored by Deputy Gino Kenny. Does anybody in the country avail of medicinal cannabis on a medical prescription at present?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017) Michael Harty: I thank the Minister and Ms Prendergast for coming before the committee and assisting us with our consideration of the Revised Estimates and programmes. The briefing documents prepared by the financial scrutiny team, which I have been using this morning, make extensive use of graphs and charts to present the financial and performance-related information contained in the Estimates and it is...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017) Michael Harty: Does the committee wish the secretariat to identify items on the committee's work programme that might benefit from a similar approach?
- Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (2 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Revised (or Supplementary) Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2017: Vote 38 — Department of Health.
- Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)
Michael Harty: I compliment Deputy Michael McGrath on introducing the motion, which refers to the collapse of Setanta. It is essential for people to have insurance for their houses and cars, but we must have confidence in our insurance companies and be happy that they are reliable and solvent. I am aware of haulage companies in my area which are having great difficulty getting insurance in Ireland, and...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I congratulate Senator Ivana Bacik on introducing the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 and successfully piloting it through the Seanad. However, because of the Government's amendments, I am afraid the inclusive nature of the original draft has been watered down and the scope of the Bill has been narrowed significantly by excluding the service economy. The Bill excludes self-employed...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: The legislation to which the Taoiseach referred underpins decisions made by the Dáil. I am referring to legislation underpinning decisions made by the HSE and concerning how it administers its funds. There are many examples of where funds are not delivering services, such as in respect of emergency department overcrowding, bed capacity issues, recruitment and retention of staff and the...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: The children’s hospital development is another case in point because a cost-benefit analysis was not done on the question of building on a brownfield rather than a greenfield site, and a huge amount of money is now going to be spent on building a hospital which could have been more cost-effectively built on a greenfield site. The Grace case is the most recent illustration of a lack...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I wish to address the topic of governance in the HSE. There are serious governance malfunctions and, in many areas, an absence of good governance in the health service in general. The OECD has found that Ireland has one of the highest spends on health services, yet it has some of the worst outcomes when it comes to accident and emergency treatment times, delayed admissions - with patients...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: We cannot expect this to be provided on a voluntary basis and it must be underpinned by legislation to ensure that good governance is rewarded and bad governance is eliminated. When does the Taoiseach intend to put in place legislative structures for the governance of the HSE?
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Ireland is the only remaining EU member state yet to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Ireland signed the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007 and has since given repeated commitments to ratification, yet it has taken ten years to take into account the need to ensure all necessary legislative and administrative requirements under...
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: The explanatory memorandum of the Bill states “legislative clarity” is needed on residential care facilities. Who has the statutory responsibility for making a decision that a patient should not leave residential care for health and safety reasons and what appeals should be in place to give legal clarity to it? The convention represents a substantial shift from the medical...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: This is a quarterly meeting with the Minister for Health and the director general of the HSE. The purpose of this afternoon's meeting is to allow the Minister and his officials, and the director general and his staff, to update the committee members on key health care issues. On behalf of the committee I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, who is accompanied by Ministers...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: It arrived at 1.25 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I now ask Mr. Tony O'Brien to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. O'Brien. We will now open up the discussion to members of the committee. We will take members in groups of three. The first group consists of Deputies Alan Kelly and Louise O'Reilly and Senator Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Thank you, Deputy. I call Senator Colm Burke as the final member to ask questions in this section.