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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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: I raise the issue of pay for community pharmacists. A lot of community pharmacists in my constituency, some of whom are second generation, could raise a number of issues but one of them relates to the pay freeze of the past 15 years, as they see it. It is resulting in a reduction in services. The Secretary General looked like the ball was hopped at him with respect to the national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: Mr. Healy might update us about that as it happens.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: No. It is not coming from anywhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: I fully support Mr. Gloster on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the committee secretariat for the work it has been doing in the background to get us to this point. I also thank our witnesses for giving us context. They will accept that, as a member of the committee, I am coming at this from the point of view of inquisitiveness, and while I hope I do not come across as an inquisition member, there may be some direct questions. These will be to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: I just wanted to clarify that. Turning to the Department, Ms Woods outlined how the State had decriminalised suicide. Will she give us a little of the context of what led to that decriminalisation and what its intent was? Will I group my questions, a Chathaoirligh?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: Okay. I would like a little context on why the State moved to decriminalise suicide and the consequences of that. In the work of this committee, we will hear a great deal about a differentiation between assisted dying and assisted suicide. How do both witnesses' organisations view these terms? Clarifying that would be helpful for us. To ask a subjective question, if the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the witnesses for their contributions and my colleagues for their questions. I will tease out one or two issues. I am conscious this is session 1 and in nine months time we will look back on this. It struck me that if the rest of the natural world was asked for its view on humanity, end of life and assisted dying, its perspective might be very interested in a minority of humanity...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (13 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the requirements for an honorary consul to be appointed by Ireland; the requirements for a country to appoint an honorary consul to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27568/23]