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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: When a nurse is recruited is it built into the contract that there is protected time for further education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: Does Ms Ní Sheaghdha believe the development of regional integrated care organisations will make a difference in responsiveness, whereby when a nurse is required an application would be made to the regional authority and a response would be received faster than through the centralised system we have at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: Community intervention teams have been a great addition to the delivery of services in primary care. They keep people out of hospital and allow people to come out of hospital quickly. My experience of community intervention teams is that they are now being restricted. There is a recruitment difficulty and their work has become so expansive that they find it very difficult to supply the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: With regard to morale over the past three and a half years, has Ms Ní Sheaghdha found morale is increasing, decreasing or staying the same? What is the situation with regard to burnout of nurses? Those who are left still standing in the system tend to bear the brunt of the extra work. They will burn out quicker and their morale must be affected.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses for coming in to contribute to our workforce planning meetings. We have had four or five such meetings to date and we might have one more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: I propose we will now go into public session. Deputy Kelly wishes to raise an issue in public session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: Will the Deputy provide us with the detail of those letters and we will write to the Minister and the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: This morning we will consider the implications of Brexit for health law in Ireland and the EU with two eminent academics presenting to the committee this morning. On behalf of the committee, I welcome, Professor Imelda Maher, dean of law and professor of European law at the UCD Sutherland School of Law, and Professor Tamara Hervey, Jean Monnet professor of European law at the University of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: I thank Professor Maher. I invite Professor Hervey to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: I thank Professor Hervey. We will now open the discussion to members. Deputy Durkan will be first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: The Deputy's time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: I call Deputy Lisa Chambers who is the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Brexit. She is not a member of the committee but she is very welcome this morning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: What is the difference between the new withdrawal agreement, in respect of the Irish protocol, and the Northern Ireland-only backstop? When we started discussing the issue, a joint declaration in December 2017 identified there should be regulatory alignment between Northern Ireland and the Republic if no satisfactory agreement was reached. Discussion then moved to a Northern Ireland-only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: This committee often discusses the social determinants of health. Health is not purely health, it involves many other things such as social welfare, social services, access to travel, housing and quality food and water, as our guests mentioned, employment and general citizens' rights. How do our guests see issues relating to health extending beyond pure health products, the recognition of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: The date for the transition period was set for December 2020 in anticipation that the UK would leave the EU in March 2018. I am beginning to mix up the years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: It allocated 21 months for the transition period. If the withdrawal agreement is ratified, that will not happen until after Christmas. The transition period has been reduced from 21 months to ten or less. Would it not be logical to extend it way beyond 2020 purely for the pragmatic reason that it will take a long time to finalise the future arrangements? Do our guests feel that it may not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: The opening statements referred to governance. The narrative for the referendum was around taking back control. The narrative for the general election is about getting Brexit done, which is a simplistic approach to winning an election. The opening statement referred to governance and the cascade, as I would term it, of committees that are going to look at all aspects of Brexit. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: My final question is on the future relationship. Will it be an all-or-nothing agreement? Can it be a phased agreement whereby different sectors and areas come to an agreement on how they disentangle from the EU rather than having to have everything agreed under an all-or-nothing withdrawal arrangement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: How long will the negotiations on a future relationship last?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: Negotiating the withdrawal agreement will probably be substantially easier than negotiating on what the future relationship will be.