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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)

Michael Harty: I wish to question the Taoiseach on the lack of meaningful health reform in our health service. The consequences of not changing our model of care are plain to see. Fine Gael has been in power for eight years and this Government has been in power for the past three years. In those past three years, we have seen little or no health reform. In fact, the situation has deteriorated. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: The purpose of this morning's meeting is to continue our pre-legislative scrutiny on the general scheme of the assisted human reproduction Bill 2017. We will hear a presentation from LGBT Ireland. We invited representatives of the Iona Institute to this meeting but since the institute had made a presentation via Dr. Joanna Rose at our meeting on 19 December last, it did not propose to add...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Thank you. I call Deputy O'Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Is Deputy Durkan happy to allow Senator Warfield come in now or would he like to contribute himself?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Is our guests' advice for people who go abroad for assisted human reproduction, whether it is married couples or those who are single, that they should opt for an identified as opposed to an anonymous donor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: There is no obligation on them to choose one or the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Would the application of the proposed legislation differ in respect of cases where couple go abroad and those where conception takes place here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Would it be the case that once the legislation is enacted, we would have to go through a process of making bilateral agreements with other countries?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: If the surrogate mother runs into difficulties during her pregnancy, which mean she could not have any further children, would that create a precedent whereby she could try to have parentage applied to herself, having previously agreed not to do so, because of that particular medical circumstance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: It is a theoretical possibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: That concludes our pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. We have had four meetings and the committee will now produce a report which will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. I hope our report will inform those drafting the legislation and they will take on board many of the recommendations we have heard during our hearings. I thank Dr. Bracken and Ms Fagan for their expert evidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: I thank the members.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: I will be supporting the motion of no confidence in the Minister. I have observed his lack of understanding of health service dysfunction at close quarters in the past two and a half years from across the floor at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and in the Dáil. His understanding of the causes of that health service dysfunction has been poor and, unfortunately, not improved in...

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: This meeting has been convened to consider the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018. The primary purpose of this Bill is to amend the Health Act 2014 to provide that the HSE shall be governed by a board and that the executive shall have a chief executive officer, CEO, accountable to the board. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, and her officials, who will...

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Amendments Nos. 1, 8 to 15, inclusive, Nos. 18 to 20, inclusive, Nos. 22 to 24, inclusive, and Nos. 26 to 28, inclusive are related. Amendments Nos. 9 to 15, inclusive, and amendments Nos. 26 to 28, inclusive, are consequential on No. 8. Amendments 19 and 20 are consequential on No. 18. Amendments Nos. 1, 8 to 15, inclusive, Nos. 18 to 20, inclusive, and Nos. 26 to 28, inclusive, will be...

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Are there any comments on amendment No. 1?

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: We are not discussing amendment No. 16.

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Amendments Nos. 2 and 4 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: The Minister of State must provide the answer.

Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 are related and will be discussed together.