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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank the Senator. Would the Minister like to start with some of those questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: As a number of members of the committee are waiting to contribute, I ask the Minister, in the interests of conserving time, to respond to the questions that were asked about nurse recruitment, stretch budgets, domiciliary care allowance and anomaly scans.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: The Deputy also asked questions about anomaly scans and a deficit in the HSE budget this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: We will move on to Senator Colm Burke's questions about obstetrics and gynaecology.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Woods. There was one other question about managerial numbers rising by almost 1,700.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: We will move on to questions from some other members because time is precious. I call Deputies Kelleher, O'Connell, Durkan and O'Mahony.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Billy Kelleher for his-----.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: He hit it on the button. It was ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: They are on their way to Holles Street.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Before I call Deputy Murphy O'Mahony, I wish to convey apologies on behalf of the Minister of State, Deputy Corcoran Kennedy, who had to go to speak in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: He is gone temporarily; he will be back
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I call Deputy Durkan. He might like to make a limited contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Being conscious of time, I am just going to move on. We have been here for three hours now. I would like to go back to the Minister's reference to the GP contract negotiations. As he knows, the committee wrote to him following a meeting two weeks ago stating that there was a strong feeling within the committee that both groups should be given equal status and parity of esteem within those...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: The framework document appears to be the inhibiting factor in allowing both groups to be viewed with equal status. What is the inhibiting factor in the framework document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, for coming in this afternoon. I thank the Ministers of State at the Department, Deputies Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Catherine Byrne and Finian McGrath. I thank Jim Breslin from the Department of Health. Finally, I thank Tony O'Brien, Liam Woods and Rosarii Mannion from the HSE.
- Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: As far back as 2012, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform issued a circular to all public bodies on the importance of maximising the value for money achievable when procuring goods and services. The public service managers were told that the Office of Government Procurement and the National Procurement Service were designed to optimise benefits to the public service through the...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (21 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance if voluntary community organisations involved in the extension and maintenance of local graveyards can be exempted from VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8495/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (21 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance if voluntary community organisations involved in the extension and maintenance of local graveyards can be exempted from VAT, as in a case (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8510/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: 609. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite an application for a driving retest for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8327/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements (21 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: 614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if driving licences are accepted from some Canadian provinces in view of the fact the holder of a licence from the province of British Columbia cannot transfer to an Irish licence without preparing for and sitting a driving test here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8393/17]