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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: Deputy Brassil may ask one more question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: I have a short question for the Minister. Why was it decided to offer a repeat smear rather than a re-examination of the most recent cervical slide?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: If a person was concerned and came to her GP, would it not have been more appropriate for the most recent slide to be examined rather than to go through the whole process of repeat smear?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: It was a political decision not to go down that route. The route the Minister went down was to offer a repeat smear. He could have gone down the route of offering review of the slide.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: I thank the Minister. I call Deputy Donnelly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: Allow witnesses to answer the questions, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: Before I bring in Deputy O'Reilly, the Minister referred to talks with general practitioners on the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation this morning. The Government seems to have set its mind against rewinding FEMPI for contract holders, including general practitioners. This has brought general practice into a very sorry state. GPs are under severe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: I used the words "dishonest" and "negligent" in the sense-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: -----that GPs are being treated dishonestly. Negligence is evident because GPs cannot supply a service to their patients. Patients are now moving out of general practice and into casualty departments because they cannot get a service from their general practitioner. They are moving into out-of-hours services, which are being flooded and overworked, and ending up in accident and emergency...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: The Government is unwinding FEMPI for all public servants but it is not unwinding it for GPs. The process the Minister is engaged in at the moment is not unwinding FEMPI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: I inform members that we have to be out of here by 1.45 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: I make the point to the Minister, the Department and the various boards in the hospital that this committee has not received a single document since these hearings started. They may be sending documents to individual members but not one document has been received by this committee. Could they ensure that all those documents are sent to the committee-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: -----so we can circulate them to all members of the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: In fairness, Mr. Breslin says to the committee that of course he will provide documents. Are we then to go through the transcript to identify each commitment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: I find that extraordinary that Mr. Breslin would sit here at a committee, say he will provide the committee with a document and then not provide the committee with the document unless the committee requests it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: But nothing has been provided.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: Maybe Deputy Kelly would provide whatever documents he has to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: We have three members who want to contribute and we only have a number of minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: A brief answer from the Minister please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Michael Harty: On that point, I do not doubt that the 60 bed modular unit in Limerick will be delivered. The question is when will it be delivered. My understanding is that it was to be delivered before the end of 2019 and the rapid construction of it would take 300 days so we do not have many days left to deliver that unit before the end of 2019. That is the question Deputy Kelly was getting at. We...