Results 901-920 of 6,504 for speaker:John Lahart
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (21 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has established an implementation group to progress the operational recommendations made in the Report of the Independent Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; the chair and membership of the group; its relationship with the clinical advisory forum on termination of pregnancy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: I second that nomination.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: The committee is willing to dialogue. I say that lightly and also unlightly to cover myself. I thank our three guests. We have really opened the whole discussion in a very dynamic way today. I thank Dr. Mulligan, Dr. Hickey and Dr. Casey 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: Dr. Hickey has said that a number of times and it is very refreshing that he can bring the intellectual approach. I take the objectivity of his presentation. The reason I ask about the conservative and liberal reference is that I would not like to see those who might have issues with this as being less than progressive and that those who want to see it introduced as being progressive. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: Dr. Hickey mentioned a referendum in his contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: Dr. Casey is saying that the concerns of the Supreme Court and it's evident scepticism - that is his interpretation - that abuses could ever be curbed entirely are very relevant to assessing whether potential legislative reforms could ever be consistent with the State's solemn duty to protect life. That is one matter. I come back to a theme I have mentioned in the context of Dr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: I am not asking that; I was talking about the dangers of making assumptions about conditions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: What are the characteristics that are used?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: What about people who are not close to end of life?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: Which of those is the biggest? It strikes me that feeling a burden would be one of the significant ones.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I congratulate the Minister and his officials. I brought forward a Bill during the previous Dáil regarding the issue of the antisocial use of scramblers, and my party colleague, Deputy McAuliffe, and I introduced a stand-alone Bill on that issue way back when the Dáil was sitting in the convention centre. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: It is four more weeks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: I thank the CEO and Secretary General. My first couple of questions are for Mr. Watt, who might watch the clock and take a minute for each of them. The Reeves Day Surgery Centre is close to my heart. Could Mr. Watt expand a little on what is contributing to its success and how he hopes to replicate it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: Could I have a summary of what the Reeves centre is doing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: Where did the initiative and impetus for the Reeves centre come from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: It grasped it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: To train?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: What are the dangers of the current over-reliance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: There is one question 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
John Lahart: I might write to Mr. Watt about it to see if there is anything that can be done legislatively. I thank Mr. Watt. Some of my colleagues and I suspect that some centres provide more services than others. Seven-day operation is in the news at the moment. HSE officials might comment on it. I am not sure if the newspaper headlines captured it accurately, so here is an opportunity to clarify...