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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I would like to raise an issue before I call Senators Colm Burke and Bernard Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: Sorry, I meant Deputy Bernard Durkan. I ask Ms Magahy to outline what a citizen care master plan is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: Does it involve population health?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: When will the citizen care plan be available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: Okay. I thank Ms Magahy. I call Senator Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: The Trinity College Dublin team will be coming in soon and I want to give it an equal opportunity to discuss the Sláintecare implementation strategy. If Deputies Louise O'Reilly and Bernard J. Durkan combine their questions, we can allow the Minister to leave.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Magahy and the Minister for attending in order to discuss the Sláintecare implementation strategy. I am sure we will meet them again in the medium term. We will suspend briefly to allow the next group of witnesses to take their seats.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: We are back in public session. In this session we are meeting with representatives from the Centre for Health Policy and Management at Trinity College Dublin to get their views on the Sláintecare implementation strategy. I welcome Dr. Sara Burke, Professor Steve Thomas and Dr. Bridget Johnston. I wish to draw the attention of the witnesses to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l)...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Professor Thomas for his opening remarks. Perhaps he could go through the aforementioned slides now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Johnston. I will ask the same two questions that I put to the Minister when he appeared before us this morning. First, we had a long discussion in the Sláintecare committee about where the Sláintecare implementation office should sit and it has been placed in the Department of Health. We were strongly of the view that it should be placed in the Department of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Burke very much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: Of course it is. I call on Deputy Stephen Donnelly to make his contribution. We will go through the same format of back and forth for seven minutes, if that is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Johnston.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I have a point about services for those aged under six years. Nobody is arguing about the expansion of free care services or services at low cost. In the past few years, however, we have seen the expansion of free GP care to those aged under six years - about an extra 240,000 children - persons in receipt of domiciliary care allowance and carer's allowance. At the same time, there was a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank Professor Thomas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank the Deputy. I also thank Dr. Sara Burke, Dr. Bridget Johnston and Professor Steve Thomas for coming at short notice. I thank them for their input into the Sláintecare process and the analysis of the outturn so far. I am sure we will meet again.
- Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)
Michael Harty: I am sorry, excuse me. As Deputy Jonathan O'Brien mentioned, just because no other country has done it is no reason we should not do it. The facts and scientific evidence are there. No one can argue against the scientific evidence. The speaker who challenged the scientific evidence is gone. The scientific evidence is that alcohol is a risk factor for cancer. In the same way as the...
- Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)
Michael Harty: I thank the Minister for taking the debate. We are all aware of excessive alcohol intake and its effect on society and people, on their physical and mental health, as well as the social effects that alcohol has. We are all aware of people who developed cirrhosis of the liver, and we think that is the only physical illness that alcohol will cause in people. People are not aware, however,...
- Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)
Michael Harty: I am sure these amendments are well-intentioned but we do not live in a perfect world, although we are trying to make it a little better. If we were to accept these three amendments relating to the Irish language, it would not make any practical difference. The effect will be either to reduce the font for the warning, as the warning will in any case take up a third of the label, or it will...