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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I call Deputy O'Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Deputy O'Reilly. I call Deputy Kelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: How would salaried GPs fit into the context of general practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: If there were salaried GPs, there would most likely be salaried staff. Is that not the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: The Deputy also raised the Carlow-Kilkenny model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I have one more contributor to bring in. I want to include Senator John Dolan in the questioning. We can come back to all of the issues raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I will add to Senator Dolan's comments. While the Committee on the Future of Healthcare and this committee are different forums, many members sit on both committees. We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because the health service is at a critical point and we have an opportunity to promote change. This will be done in the report to be published in the coming months. We must move in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: That would be helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Byrne. General practice is going to be the foundation of our new health service if we can transform our health service into a new health service. The evidence given this morning is extremely important and will be built on. I think we will revisit it in the not too distant future. What is the one trigger the witnesses could see that would trigger a change from a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: And the trigger?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: The trigger, Dr. McGarry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank the witnesses for their attendance and wholehearted engagement. I hope that we will revisit this area again because it is going to underpin the future of our health service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: If the Deputy wishes.

Roads Funding: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: The principal reason for the Rural Independent Group putting forward this motion is to highlight that the Irish road network is significantly underfunded. This raises safety concerns and concerns over the lack of connectivity between our major urban areas and it inhibits balanced regional development which significantly disadvantages our peripheral counties. The programme for partnership...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Health Information and Quality Authority (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: I am sorry for being late. Some of my questions may have been answered already. Some providers have brought to my attention that HIQA imposes almost impossible demands upon them to provide standards of service. They themselves are struggling to provide best service but are chronically underfunded. Does HIQA take underfunding and lack of resources into account in making its assessments...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Car Park Charges (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Harty: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue generated from car parking services in each public hospital in 2016; the purposes for which this money is used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4793/17]

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: The position in Bus Éireann is very worrying. The recent presentation made by the acting CEO of Bus Éireann, Mr. Ray Hernan, to the Oireachtas transport committee was frightening when he forecast that losses for 2016 would be up to €9 million. His assertion that the company could be insolvent by the end of the year without drastic cost reductions was very concerning for the...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I am very happy to speak on the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016. It is a matter very close to my heart. We must keep the frail, elderly members of our community living in their and our community. It is essential that we look after our frail, elderly people. Frail is the important word. We are facing huge demographic changes in this country. I will not give the House...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I do not think I will take 15 minutes, so Deputy Eamon Ryan will have a free run for the end of the debate. The Maureen Harding Clark report on surgical symphysiotomy remains a very unsatisfactory report for many women. It covered a period of 50 years from 1940 to 1990 and was set up on the assumptions that symphysiotomy led to lifelong disability and was impelled by Catholic teaching on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: This is the first of two sessions on overcrowding in emergency departments, the purpose of which is to engage with the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, ICTU and Patient Focus. The HSE will attend for the second session. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Emily O'Conor of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, IAEM, Ms Patricia King, general secretary of ICTU, Mr. Liam...