Results 881-900 of 6,504 for speaker:John Lahart
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: 657. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a heart failure registry to help reduce high hospital admission and mortality rates among patients with the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32611/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: 658. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the 90-day hospital readmission rate for heart failure patients estimated at 30% by the HSE’s national heart programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32612/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: 659. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to cut waiting times for outpatient appointments for heart failure patients, particularly in view of the high hospital readmission rates among patients with the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32613/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: 660. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a pilot phone support programme run by an organisation (details supplied) in conjunction with the heart failure service in University Hospital Waterford that reduced the readmission rate among patients with the condition; if he believes this is a service that should now be expanded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32614/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: 661. To ask the Minister for Health to list the hospitals that provide a clinical psychology service to heart failure patients, those treating heart failure that have no dedicated service for these patients; to set out his plans to improve these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32615/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: 662. To ask the Minister for Health in light of a survey by an organisation (details supplied) survey finding that 50% of heart failure patients did not receive adequate cardiac rehabilitation; what measures are being taken to increase access to the service for this specific patient cohort; what progress has been made to reduce an overall national waiting list for cardiac rehabilitation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: I thank the Cathaoirleach and the witnesses. Like some of my colleagues, I was following the meeting online. Several of the questions I wished to ask have been put. I will ask one question and invite each of the contributors to respond on it. It is a general question because I am conscious the public are watching these proceedings and there has been a lot of complicated, albeit...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: Will the Chair just clarify the advance directive? Most of us know what it means, but it is the note in advance where someone is setting out what they want to happen if a certain thing happens to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: I refer to Mr. Kelly’s submission. I will not be asking him to comment on the paragraph I intend to quote from, but I would like Dr. Mills’s and Professor Huxtable’s response to it. The paragraph states: It would appear that for the purpose of protecting vulnerable persons, and ensuring [competency] and capacity are duly regarded, assisted dying may not be available...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
John Lahart: I found it not provocatively provocative. However, it is provocative in terms of raising the issues for the committee, certainly for me as a member of it, and differentiating between competence and capacity when it came to physical and psychiatric.
- 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (28 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he is making on expanding the national heel-prick test, given that 28 June is International Neonatal Screening Day; how many diseases babies born today in Ireland are currently being tested for; when he will decide on including spinal muscular atrophy in newborn screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31393/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (27 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider increasing the size of the SEAI solar PV grant KW/PH rate in order that consumers can avail of larger solar units but drawdown the maximum €2,400 grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30787/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many bus drivers were recruited for the Dublin region to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31209/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many bus drivers are in training for the Dublin region at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31210/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (22 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance for a report on the trend in corporation tax revenue stream since just before the pandemic. [30037/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (22 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the level of windfall receipts since the start of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30038/23]