Results 501-520 of 6,501 for speaker:John Lahart
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: I have not finished the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: I will be happy to share a minute of mine with the Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: The Senator did not allow me to finish the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: One of the downsides of committee meetings is there is no space for a point of information. I therefore say to my colleague, Senator Ruane, that she can take 30 seconds of my time. I am quite happy to share it. The point I was trying to make was that there could equally be uproar if some members of the public thought the Department of Health or the HSE were tearing ahead and breaking...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: Okay. Truce. I have a couple of questions. Senator Mullen has said something I am not sure about. I will have to reflect on it. He said that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, and that suicide and assisted suicide are part of the same conversation. Yet, the evidence we have heard is that, in some cases, assisted suicide is a permanent solution to a permanent...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: I have a question I want to ask.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: That is one of the points I want to make. We have heard evidence from Dr. Twomey, who is the national clinical lead for palliative care. There are clearly opposite views in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, where they face the same challenges but come up with different answers. It is important to put that on the record, too. I want to ask a question that has not been asked before in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: The evidence we have heard is that there is a tiny number of conditions that are beyond the reach of medicine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: What do we offer such an individual?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: Is Dr. Twomey able to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: What about the tiny minority of cases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: That is what we are talking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: May I insist? Dr. Twomey has not answered. What do we do in the case of those very rare-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: What does Dr. Ní Bhriain do in such a case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: Will Dr. Ní Bhriain give us a few examples?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: We have been told that some conditions are beyond all of that. Is that true or false?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: We were told there is.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (8 Feb 2024)
John Lahart: I thank the Chair for the additional latitude, which I appreciate. Some of the items the Minister of State has brought to us are really good news. The first is that Transport Infrastructure Ireland is considering a Luas fleet renewal. It is not overdue, but it is welcome, as is the fact that it is looking at increasing the number of trams assigned to the Luas red line. I would encourage...