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

Michael Harty: I thank all the witnesses for attending the committee meeting and apologise for keeping them waiting for two hours and for keeping them here until 6.45 p.m. On behalf of the committee, I thank Ms Fitzgerald, Mr. McCallion, Mr. Woods and Dr. Henry for coming in and giving evidence.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Turner for coming before the committee. I have two questions. When the CEO of the HSE, Mr. Tony O'Brien, appeared before the committee a number of weeks ago, he referred to the need for transitional investment funding to stimulate a change in the system to make it more efficient, change the emphasis from being on secondary care to primary care and begin the transfer of resources...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: The problem with banks is they seem to operate without reference to ethical standards. Too often they do not seem to appreciate the difference between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour. It does not seem to bother their conscience that overcharging on mortgages results in families either losing their homes or being subject to the most horrendous stress, both financial and emotional....

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: My main concern is the strategy which Ireland is taking in Brexit negotiations. Ireland needs to take an independent line rather than being tied exclusively to the pan-European negotiation stance which does not represent our unique interests and vulnerabilities, in particular, in agriculture. We must be proactive and strong in our critical demands at the negotiation table and be as forceful...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: In regard to Brexit and its potential effects on the action plan for rural Ireland unveiled yesterday, which is a welcome recognition of what rural Deputies on all sides of the House have been seeking for many years, will the Taoiseach outline to the House how he envisages protecting rural areas from a hard Brexit, which appears to the model the British Government is to pursue, given the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Resettlement Scheme (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: When I speak about rural revitalisation, what I mean is that communities would come together and identify the needs of that community and property within it. Obviously, it is a voluntary process. We are not talking about resettlement. We are talking about revitalisation where people would voluntarily come to live in rural Ireland and be received into a community with a huge amount of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Resettlement Scheme (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his proposals regarding a new rural resettlement scheme to promote the advantages of rural living and ease the housing pressure in high demand urban areas, as indicated as a one year action in A Programme for a Partnership Government. [2287/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Resettlement Scheme (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I wish to ask the Minister what proposals he intends to make in terms of a new rural resettlement scheme to promote the advantages of rural living. It was outlined as a one-year strategy in the programme for Government. Rather than being merely a rural resettlement scheme I wish to introduce a new concept of a rural revitalisation scheme which would help to reinvigorate rural communities...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rural Resettlement Scheme (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: One of the greatest assets rural Ireland has is vacant property and, unfortunately, one of the assets it lacks is people. There are great disparities around the country in terms of the availability of housing. I envisage that such a scheme will only solve a small percentage of the housing shortage in greater urban areas but it will have a beneficial effect on the situation and it will also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: The purpose of the meeting is to meet in the first session the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisations, INMO, and the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and in the second the Health Service Executive, HSE, to discuss the national maternity strategy, 2016 to 2026, which was prepared by the maternity strategy steering group. On behalf of the joint committee, from the INMO I welcome...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Ms Leahy. I now invite Dr. Peter Boylan to make his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Boylan. I ask Professor Louise Kenny, professor of obstetrics at University College Cork and consultant obstetrician-gynaecologist at Cork University Maternity Hospital, CUMH, to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: We will now open the discussion to members and will take questions in groups of three. The first group is Deputy Louise O'Reilly, Senator Colm Burke and Deputy Kate O'Connell, in that order. Deputy Louise O'Reilly is first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: Four themes have arisen in the questions. They relate to recruitment and retention, ultrasound deficits, the mastership model and leaving gynaecological services out of the strategy. They are the four common themes of the questions. Professor Boylan, will you comment on those first, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I ask Ms Leahy or Ms Gorman to address the ratio of nursing staff to births.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I will now bring in the next group of speakers, Deputy Alan Kelly and Deputy Billy Kelleher.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I understand Deputy Sherlock's position. Four more members wish to speak so I ask them to be brief. We will undoubtedly come back to the issue of governance. I have one or two questions myself. I will take Deputies Durkan, Murphy O'Mahony and Sherlock and Senator Alice-Mary Higgins and ask them to be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: This is really a matter for discussion in a debate on the maternity strategy. While there are elements that relate to gynaecological services, the Deputy is discussing local issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: I believe so. I call Professor Kenny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Michael Harty: Thank you. I wish to raise a final point with Dr. Boylan. With regard to litigation, in the past few months we have had meetings dealing with open disclosure. What are your views on open disclosure regarding maternity litigation?