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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) John Lahart: I have read that. What is the Minister’s expectation or objective on, say, the savings yield there? Has he been given any kind of picture as to that?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) John Lahart: Is this the first time such a team will be brought in?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) John Lahart: The Minister has not been given much time to talk about price inflation which, like all backbenchers, I experience. Whether it is in respect of local authority or Department of Education projects, inflation is having an impact. It clearly takes out a lot of projects that they have in mind. What is the trajectory of price inflation for capital projects in health?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) John Lahart: Is there any parallel between the direction of inflation and the general direction of economic inflation, which seems to be slowing?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) John Lahart: How much did inflation add to the overall health budget in 2023? I ask for a ballpark figure.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) John Lahart: How much is that in millions?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) John Lahart: That is close to the Supplementary Estimate.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) John Lahart: I have three more questions, including one for the Minister of State. There were discussions between the Minister and the Minister for public expenditure that bordered on the friendly and combative, I am sure. Will the Minister give a flavour of those, even if it is just for colour? He is a man who would clearly dig his heels in. On a subject close to my heart, I chair a cross-party...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: No but I can make the point I want to make. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for even allowing me in. I raised a Topical Issue late last night in the Dáil. It was on the introduction of the S8 and the S6, and the shortfall in those schedules. They replaced the 75 and 175 and in doing so seriously discommoded commuters on both sections of those routes because there was a direct...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: They come from Citywest. I ask the NTA to be aware that it is probably five years since the public consultation and there have been dramatic demographic changes in the areas these are serving. Citywest and Ballycullen would be classic examples. There has been a real change in the people using them. Some people are happy to connect. Some people are enthusiastic there are now connections...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: The promise to keep it under review is important. Also, the schedules have not got to every house. Those metro-style maps are challenging for many people. Many people just give up at that first step. I do not want the CEO to misinterpret what I have said. I have said I am enthusiastic about aspects of it. There have been many comments on it from those 3,500 people. It was not an...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (28 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: It is close to midnight, and I very much appreciate the Minister of State coming to the House to take this question of behalf of the Government. As the Minister of State will probably be aware from his own constituency, continuous changes as part of the BusConnects project and changes in bus schedules continue to be rolled out by the NTA. Some of them have rolled out in my constituency. I...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (28 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State. I would be very grateful if he could go back to the Minister, Deputy Ryan, to tell him this. I say this particularly in the light of one of the points the Minister of State made regarding what the Government has been doing with fares to encourage people to abandon their cars and use public transport. I refer particularly to young people. One of the comments...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: Our witnesses are getting caught in the time trap that we all are subject to. We often do not appreciate their full meaning until they are in full flow. I thank them for all their contributions, some of which I watched online earlier. I have a question for the Irish College of General Practitioners. How many members are there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: Thank you for undertaking it but fewer than 100 participated in it. The age cohort of those was over 40 and predominantly rural. I do not know how to interpret that. However, like any poll, it was a useful snapshot of how GPs feel. One of the points mentioned in the feedback was GPs reporting that patient wishes were overruled by family members or ignored by hospitals. Could we have even...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: It is in the report, saying there were GPs who reported patients' wishes were overruled or ignored. I do not even want to know the wishes but just to give the committee a little bit of substance on what happens. How do GPs become aware if a patient's wish is just overruled by family and for what reasons? I would like a bit of context.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: We could have a very long conversation just about that piece, about a patient's wishes and a family overruling it, possibly, and a GP going with a course of action based on what, I wonder. I do really wonder about the knowledge of the wider family, given the interaction time GPs have with people. It is not particularly long. I have also experienced GP interaction in my own family in those...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: It was really quite a small sample, then, that took part in the survey.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: I have great respect for Senator Keogan, who talked about the slippery slope in Canada. A big bunch of Canadians do not regard it as a slippery slope; rather, they regard it as a logical conclusion. I am not making any judgment either way. Their society is at a different place, either before or after ours. From the evidence we gathered on both sides, the statistics were very interesting....
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (28 Nov 2023)
John Lahart: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a detailed update with regard to the details and timelines in respect of the remediation of apartment defects to help allay any anxieties of apartment owners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51865/23]