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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Are those primary care centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: The Chair and I share the same constituency. We attended a meeting where many parents of young adults with disabilities and special needs were present. They talked about how those kids, adolescents and adults get lost in respect of their mental health needs. The disability piece is one element, but the parents spoke about how there are so few supports if they have a combined mental health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank Ms Walsh, Mr. Wall, Mr. Curran and Mr. Ahern. It is clear they have come more agonisingly close to personally dealing with the ins and outs of this issue than most people have. They have seen the issue and considered it, from both sides, inside and outside. I will make a couple of initial points. I say to Ms Walsh that there is no Bill coming. This committee has been established...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: We will do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I do not think Mr. Wall has anything to fear on this. We have heard evidence of the slippery slope. It appears to have happened in some countries. We have also heard evidence of some countries where it is very strictly controlled and where it is confined to end-of-life issues. It seems incontrovertible from the witness testimony we have heard that there are some jurisdictions where what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: This is Ms Walsh's concern.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform given the requirement of some public servants to retire at 60 years of age and given that some public servants wish to continue working, and if they seek to transfer across to another position within the public service, it appears that they must begin on a starting salary scale; the actions he is considering with regard to remedying...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Management Companies (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is legal for management companies, which takes ownership of a substantial amount of apartments in an apartment complex that, that a management company then has the majority vote when it comes to increasing the management fee on the owner/occupiers in the remaining part of the apartment complex; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 569. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned by the warning in a presentation by senior oncologists (details supplied); if he is considering making a statement on the matter; if he is taking steps to ensure that timelines for Irish patients to access new medicines do not continue to worsen; if he is considering how much funding will be required to prevent a deterioration in 2024;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 571. To ask the Minister for Health how Ireland ranks according to the latest IQVIA Patients WAIT Indicator Survey; the rate of availability of new medicines in Ireland compared with the EU average; the average waiting time for access to new medicines in Ireland in comparison with the EU average; and the average waiting time for patients in Ireland. [44065/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Yield (5 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an overview of the trends in corporation tax receipts in the recent past. [42890/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (5 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline if he is satisfied with the public consultation aspect of active travel projects supported by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42891/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (5 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to make whatever arrangements are necessary to ensure that full Part 8 planning requirements are followed with regard to active travel schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (5 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering any measures to leverage the billions in savings accounts held by Irish people into investment opportunities in areas such as State affordable housing vehicles or other investment vehicles directed towards the public good; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42889/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: The term "intergenerational trauma", which is a new term to me, is being used increasingly by non-governmental organisations and stakeholders to describe the impact, particularly on young people, of life in severely challenged and disadvantaged parts of the country. Given the ongoing and relatively positive impact of the north-east inner city initiative established under the previous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the witnesses. I thank Dr. McKeown O'Donovan for taking up the doctoral research piece on this topic. It is not something everybody would be aiming for. Just as a matter of interest, what university department did that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Someone may have asked Dr. McKeown O’Donovan this already, and it is on the record, so it is fine. She said the term “assisted dying” refers to “the active assistance to die given to someone who is already dying, and the dying person is the one who directly self-administers the life ending-substance”. The obvious question, as in the Marie Fleming case, is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: So that would not be allowed under-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Did Dr. McKeown O'Donovan cover this here already?