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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank Mr. O'Brien. I call Deputy Louise O'Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: The next contributor is Deputy Kate O'Connell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: On medicinal cannabis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I will limit the number of invitations the next time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I have a question on what is being discussed. The Minister mentioned some critical issues, with one being the GP contract. Is there a timeframe for negotiating this contract? It has become critical. We are losing our newly trained GPs and established GPs who are retiring early or emigrating. There is an ageing population of GPs, with 33% being over 55. This feeds into the lack of GPs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: In the interests of time, and I know people have to go, Deputy Durkan will ask a number of short questions. Senator Colm Burke has one short question before we finish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Durkan for his contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: If Senator Colm Burke would be ten times more brief, I would appreciate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank Senator Colm Burke. I have one final question and it is a matter of urgency. In relation to bed capacity, there was a review and reconfiguration of services in the mid-west seven or eight years ago and acute beds were taken from Ennis and Nenagh. Yet, the regional hospital in Limerick, University Hospital Limerick, as it is now called, has a major trolley problem. I realise the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: Sorry for going over time. There has been a gap of nine months since the Department and the HSE last came before the committee for various reasons. There were many pent-up questions as a result. I thank the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, Jim Breslin, Tony O'Brien and the Ministers of State, Deputies Helen McEntee, Catherine Byrne and Finian McGrath. I will not mention the...

Mental Health Services Funding: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I am glad this debate is being carried out in a calm and constructive manner. The motion has several objectives, including the full implementation of A Vision for Change, which is ten years old. It is astounding that we are still trying to implement that document ten years after it was published. It recognises the financial requirements to complete A Vision for Change as €177...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (15 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: 407. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied); if he will request his officials to take a sympathetic approach, as in all probability a genuine mistake was made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34984/16]

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: Post offices play a vital social and economic role in our communities, especially in the regions and in villages and towns. There are substantial commitments in the programme for Government to protect and develop our post office network. Post offices represent the last commercial service remaining in many villages and small towns. These places have been deserted by the mainstream banks....

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I welcome the witnesses, particularly Ms Colette Cowan and Dr. Paul Burke, who, like me, are from the mid-west. Most witnesses so far have alluded to the fact that if we are going to improve the health service, we will need a very strong, highly-resourced, efficient and effective primary care service, not only in general practice but also with all the other components involved. The...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: Obviously, having hospital groups delivers significant added value. Dr. Susan O'Reilly alluded to this in her opening statement. Recruitment is still a problem and while hospital groups make it easier to recruit staff, they do not resolve all the problems in this area. I ask Dr. O'Reilly to address the problems in recruitment, for example, bringing recruits out to the periphery to staff...

Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I will address the issue of balanced regional developed as it was outlined in the programme for Government. Balanced regional development requires an active development of regions outside the greater Dublin area, and I stress "active development". It needs to provide opportunities to live and work and sustain a family in towns and villages which are outside the major urban areas. It needs...

Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank the Minister. People in rural Ireland and in the regions feel disenfranchised. There were lessons from the general election which the Government should have learned. People felt they had been cut off from the economic development of the country and that they were not benefitting from the economic recovery. We have many national organisations such as the Gaelic Athletic...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (22 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: In the primary care section of A Programme for a Partnership Government there is a commitment to enter into contract negotiations with general practitioners. General practice is under serious threat because of the workload involved and manpower issues coming down the line. While there is a commitment to the urgent negotiation of a new flexible contract, there seems to be complacency about...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (22 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider a change in application of the rules for those in receipt of social protection payments who work a limited numbers of hours per day, in particular breaking the working week into hours rather than days when calculating reduced social protection payments. [36335/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (22 Nov 2016)

Michael Harty: I ask the Minister to consider a change in application of the rules for those in receipt of social protection payments who work a limited numbers of hours per day, in particular breaking the working week into hours rather than days when calculating reduced social protection payments for hours worked during the week.