Results 61-80 of 497 for does speaker:John Lahart

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: I am going to ask a number of questions because my time is disappearing. Perhaps the witnesses can come back in when I have asked them. There does not seem to be any evidence from Dignitas that numbers have been increasing in the way seen under the Dutch model, which seems to indicate that it is the change in the law and the widening of permissibility that is at issue there. I do not get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: ...the great and the small religions attempt to answer the big questions in life like where we came from, why we are here and what happens when we die. The perspective of religion is important. It does not have to be exclusive but it is an important perspective and we should not shy away from hearing it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Construction Industry (13 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: ...in question. There are well over 300 units on this estate. I have not had a complaint other than from three or four residents. It is actually in the builder's interests to come back. This does not seem to be a wholesale problem or maybe I am beginning to open a can of worms. However, that is not my sense of it. The builder built many hundreds of houses in this particular area over...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Construction Industry (13 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: ...throughout that time. It was exceptional but clearly with apartment defects it was the rule, rather than the exception. The CIF is the de facto regulator of the construction sector. It does this through operating and maintaining the construction industry register of builders. To get onto that register, it is necessary to tick a number of boxes. To stay on it requires compliance with a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: ...I use. The productivity is not what the NPHDB expected, however. The contractor is not delivering to date what the development board had anticipated it would deliver. The process has slowed down. Does the NPHDB believe that is deliberate or is it because there is a shortage of man and woman power? I hear our witnesses’ frustration but I do not hear any big picture steps to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: What might be involved if BAM delivers that document and what does Mr. Gunning anticipate that it will contain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: Mr. Gunning says that BAM is not providing sufficient resources to deliver the hospital and to illustrate that point, BAM achieved 67% of its planned output in the past 12 months. Where does Mr. Gunning think BAM’s resources are? Do they have the resources?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: ...not want the witnesses to feel like they are being monstered or anything like that. I will be as respectful as I can, but I would like the witnesses' responses to be short as well, if possible. Does Professor Jones think, and I am asking him a "Yes" or "No" question, that there are absolutely no conditions or circumstances in which an assisted dying or euthanasia intervention - and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: I do not mean to pin Professor Jones into a corner, but from his own life experience - forget everything else - does he think there are absolutely no circumstances in which an intervention along those lines is appropriate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: ...option. Can Professor Donnelly or Professor Madden give an example of what that pressure might look like and where it might come from? Have we any anecdotal or hard evidence in that regard? What does an advance healthcare directive look like? Those are the two questions: first, who might feel pressured and what might that pressure look like; and, second, who might exert that pressure,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: What does "irremediable" mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

John Lahart: Is that a distinction? Mr. Kelly seems to be drawing a distinction and saying that in the case of psychiatric and mental illness, there is a potential for irremediability that does not exist with physical. No, he is not saying that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: ...for the intellectual rigour that all three statements have brought. I accept the bona fides of the intellectual rigour of all three. Dr. Hickey spoke of very conservative or liberal lines. Does he think this is a conservative and liberal discussion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: ...on which I do not need an answer now, maybe a written answer will do. I am sure every politician is approached every so often by entrepreneurs with innovative ideas in the health area but there does not appear to be a one-stop shop within the Department to which they can be directed in confidence in the knowledge that their ideas will not be widely shared. I have encountered someone in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

John Lahart: Why is that? I read that. Why does Ms O'Shea think that is the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

John Lahart: I thank Ms O'Shea for that. I would like to come back and focus on two particular aspects of her statement. The Act does not sufficiently address the balance between the right to conscientiously object, which is on the doctor's side, and the right to receive healthcare, which is on the woman's side. Ms O'Shea might develop that, and I will finish my last question, which really goes back to...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

John Lahart: Does Deputy Cowen want a few minutes? I am sharing my time, in that case.

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

John Lahart: ...knew voluntarily left their home forever. I appeal on a human level to anyone listening when I say the vast majority of people who leave their homes are doing exactly that - leaving their homes. No one does that willingly. The vast majority of people do it involuntarily and cherish the desire of some day returning to that home. I was involved, and hope to be again, as a volunteer in...