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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: I want to put on the record that I have encountered the CEO, Ms Hardiman, on a number of occasions in my time as a public representative and I have no reason to question that she is a public servant of the highest integrity. I have no reason to believe that Dr. Goldman, or his two colleagues here, should not be considered in the same light. That does not detract, obviously, from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, concerning the OECD report into the DEIS system, she will assure schools in areas of acute disadvantage that such schools will be included in any OECD report and will be visited as part of any such report. [41714/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the Secretary General, the CEO and his team. I want to address a few HSC issues first, beginning with the section 39 organisations. The Chair and I share the same constituency and we recently attended a meeting of WALK, one of the NGOs based in Tallaght which serves Dublin 24 and Dublin 12. The meeting was very well attended. A number of issues arose there. There seem to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: If the person's condition is permanent can they not just be removed from it? Is there not a system in place to do this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: The HSE could take the lead in that regard. The point was made that the HSE caught the ball on the hop, in a positive way-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: I get that. I will come back to the issue. I have questions for Mr. Watt. He intimated there was an exciting development relating to the technological universities wishing to take some of the postgraduate medical training. Can he update us in that regard? On medical cards, I am a Government Deputy and it is Government policy but I hear a lot of kick-back from GPs regarding people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: Why is the Department considering the app? What are the advantages of such a model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: As regards Technological University Dublin, TUD, and the technological university model, is what we are looking at in that regard a medical school that would deliver general practitioners into the system or is it different from the existing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: I thank Deputy Shortall for giving me latitude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: We will have four elective hospitals.

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister for taking the slot today. Having listened to his speech and read page 2 of his script, I noted paragraphs 3 to 7 are quite chilling and alarming. The affected parents already have knowledge of several of these matters. Reading the script coldly, I found what it referred to truly shocking. More questions will be asked about this matter and more statements will be made...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: It was interesting to hear Members opposite reference the tenantin situscheme which, as the Taoiseach knows, has two strands. One is for social housing tenants whose landlords want to bring their tenancy to an end. The other strand is for those in private rental accommodation whose landlords want to bring their tenancy to an end. In both cases, the local authority or housing association...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: I wish to speak on the Garda rosters. I am sure the Taoiseach is aware of this. I was talking to quite a number of younger gardaí over the summer because they attend the summer fairs and police those kinds of community activities. They are four days on, four days off at the moment. For gardaí, and particularly quite a number of younger gardaí in Dublin who live in what they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: I thank our witnesses for the contributions. My first question is for Dignitas and follows on from the previous speaker's contribution. It is terrible to reduce issues to statistics but are the proportions of men and women seeking the assistance of Dignitas services equal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: Mr. Luley does not have evidence substantiating that, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: They show that there are more women.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: Has any work been done on the second statement Mr. Luley made, which suggested women are more reasonable than men? A Jack Nicholson quote from a certain movie comes to my mind but I will resist it. Is there any body of evidence to substantiate a reason for men preferring a more violent or rougher method?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: That is perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: I am going to ask a number of questions because my time is disappearing. Perhaps the witnesses can come back in when I have asked them. There does not seem to be any evidence from Dignitas that numbers have been increasing in the way seen under the Dutch model, which seems to indicate that it is the change in the law and the widening of permissibility that is at issue there. I do not get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: May I finish first?