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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: What are the characteristics that are used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Constitution: Discussion (20 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: What about people who are not close to end of life?

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...