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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: As a member of the committee, though I am not speaking for the committee, I am sure the HSE is watching and if that is true, I am sure the committee wants to hear an account of what that is about. Either the vacancies are visible or they are not. If they are not, why has that happened? The other side of this relates to private contractors. I will let the witnesses come back because I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: The policy choice is to say to the HSE that it can employ 6,000 additional people this year, and the HSE employed 8,500, or that it did not have the budget to employ 2,000 additional staff during Covid, but it employed them, so the Government is going to cover that cost. The Department and Government are saying the HSE cannot continue to employ thousands of people over the budgets it has...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how car batteries are finally recycled, and what happens to each of their individual parts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42659/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Motor Fuels (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the latest developments in relation the development of synthetic fuel as a possibility to use as a fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42660/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the schools which have accommodated special need classes since 2021 for the areas Dublin 6w, Dublin 12, Dublin 24, Dublin 16 and Dublin 14; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42509/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building refurbishments and new builds that have commenced and have subsequently been completed since 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42597/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether, as requested previously, he has moved to include the Glenasmole Valley in south county Dublin on the border with Wicklow in the deer control programme, which includes fifteen ‘hotspots’ nationally; when is this likely to happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42856/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 701. To ask the Minister for Health how an organisation (details supplied) accesses the funding for a number of its services from his Department or the HSE as it is its first occasion to be granted funding and it does not have a direct line to a HSE clinical lead or departmental official; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42621/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 710. To ask the Minister for Health how an organisation (details supplied) will access allocated funding given the absence of a clinical lead for interstitial lung disease (lung fibrosis); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42652/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts, and timing of, funds which have allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in the 2025 health budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42653/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 712. To ask the Minister for Health what stipulations have been made in the budget allocation to an organisation (details supplied) regarding the funding's remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42654/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 834. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration could now be given for the drug Saxenda to be included on the drugs payment scheme for patients who have been prescribed the medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43245/24]

Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: For the public who may be watching, this debate was scheduled for later in the evening but, obviously, business moved much more quickly, and it is concluding now. I am very grateful for the opportunity to speak on it. I will not be supporting any motions on this next week. While I understand why Deputy Kenny is doing that and bringing it forward, because he has very much championed the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (17 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 292. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he could provide a list of all childcare services in Dublin 1, 3, 9 and 11 that have withdrawn from core funding. [42224/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (17 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: 293. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he could provide a list of all childcare services in Dublin 6W. 14. 16 and 24 that have withdrawn from the core funding model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42225/24]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister, the Ministers of State and their teams. I will take up the same theme. The Minister is talking about 6,500 appointments, essentially. These are new positions between this year and what is projected for next year, yet the INMO and Fórsa are protesting today. What does the Minister say to them?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: I will move on to a few quick questions. I will briefly note the comparison of health spending in Ireland with other European countries. We are about halfway up or down the league table, depending what way you look at it. Are there any statistics available on international comparisons in regard to getting bang for the buck, outcomes and so on? I do not need the Minister to answer this now...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: Where is that available? Is it on the HSE website?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

John Lahart: I want to raise an issue that is good news and a matter of continuing interest. It is relevant to the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, who is here. One of the most interesting points the Minister mentioned in his opening statement concerns the demographic challenge, which is alarming. The statistics are really interesting. Our population is at its largest since 1850, with an increase of...