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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: Does Mr. Connaghan wish to contribute? I will then move to Deputy Kelly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: I ask the Deputy to bank that question and we will return to it in the second round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. McCallion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, to the committee. We understand his earlier absence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: Senator Burke is offering but I ask him to bank his question because I will be coming around a second time. I invite Deputy Donnelly to come in a second time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: Before I bring in the next contributor, I refer the Minister back to the comments made by Senator Colm Burke in respect of a new GP contract. We have spoken about this before. While the programme for partnership Government proposes that a new GP contract will be negotiated, this is not happening. There is a huge manpower shortage in general practice as demonstrated by the fact that GPs are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: The point I am making is that if the Minister is building upon the foundation of a contract that is 45 years old, that may make some practices sustainable and allow them to continue to operate but it will not attract any new GPs into the service because the fundamental basis on which the contract is built on is out of date. The Minister is putting structures on a contract which is itself...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: While Ms O'Connor is metaphorically on her feet, I will put a question to her. Why has the announcement of the winter initiative been so late this year? Surely it should be announced a long time before the winter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: There was a question on home care packages.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: We all understand the structured consultation that takes place between doctors or specific clinics - such as those which deal with heart failure, COPD or whatever - and patients whereby there is a structured protocol in place. The Deputy it referring to unstructured consultations, which are extensively advertised on the airwaves and in respect of which there may be a problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: I ask Deputy Jack Chambers to conclude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: I call Senator Conway-Walsh and thank her for her patience.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: Just to let Senator Conway-Walsh know that we need to vacate the room by 1.45 p.m. at the latest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: On behalf of the joint committee, I thank the Minister for coming before us. We understand his delay. I thank the Secretary General, Mr. Breslin, and officials from the HSE, Mr. John Connaghan, Mr. Stephen Mulvany, Ms Anne O'Connor, Mr. Damien McCallion and Dr. Colm Henry.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: This meeting has been resumed to consider the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018. The purpose of the Bill is to provide for and regulate termination of pregnancy. I welcome the Minister and his adviser to the meeting. I also welcome our members and non-members. We are going to resume where we left off yesterday, at amendment No. 145 in the name of Deputies McGrath,...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: Deputy Tóibín will be allowed in.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: Would Deputy Coppinger stick to the amendment rather than commentary on the debate?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: We are addressing the amendment and we will not rerun the debate.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: Deputy O'Connell will be allowed contribute.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Michael Harty: Deputy O’Connell, please.