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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (28 Jun 2016)

Michael Harty: 449. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite a home care package for persons (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18510/16]

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2016)

Michael Harty: On behalf of our group, I express our horror at another terrorist attack on defenceless people, this time in Turkey. Will the Tánaiste address the status of the negotiations between the Department of Health and the IMO on developing a new GP contract that will allow for the development of a new GP-led primary care model to drive change in our health service? The present contract is...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2016)

Michael Harty: If we have a GP service that is constrained by an outdated contract and unable to deliver chronic care in the community, our hospital system will be further overwhelmed. We will face the prospect of rising trolley counts, increased accident and emergency unit overcrowding and increased hospital waiting lists. Will the Tánaiste assure the House that negotiations are being pursed as a...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2016)

Michael Harty: I would like the Government to address a number of issues concerning the contract. There are four main issues resulting in considerable pressure in general practice. One is the application of the FEMPI legislation. It was applied to general practice in a very disproportionate manner. Some 40% of the support structures to finance general practice were removed under FEMPI, which was unfair....

Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2016)

Michael Harty: I congratulate Deputy Denis Naughten on his appointment as Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. It is an extensive Department with responsibilities that extend into many aspects of our daily lives. I am confident that he will provide an extremely capable and decisive ministry and facilitate development, while balancing regulation and control with the practical needs of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant Closure (29 Jun 2016)

Michael Harty: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to replace or restore the motorised transport grant which was abolished in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18653/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (29 Jun 2016)

Michael Harty: 183. To ask the Minister for Health to initiate and complete as a matter of urgency an independent review of the delivery of the ambulance service with a special focus on rural areas; to focus immediately on establishing cardiac and medical emergency first responders through all avenues such as the fire service, voluntary emergency services and community responders, given that the management...

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: I have been robbed of my time from both sides of the House, including by my colleagues.

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: I am thankful for the opportunity to address this motion. It is important because it is the first Private Members' motion introduced by the rural Independent group to the Thirty-second Dáil. It is a very important issue. Broadband was one of the major issues in my election campaign, as I am sure it was in the campaign of the Minister, Deputy Naughten, and other individuals. It is...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this debate. FEMPI was introduced in 2009 during our financial crisis. Yes, it was an emergency. However, the FEMPI legislation was so harsh that it was similar to legislation which would have been introduced during war times. It is now seven years later and we still have FEMPI. It is a pity that we did not have this debate prior to the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Programme for Government Initiatives (13 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: 69. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the Food Wise 2025 targets set for agriculture in the programme for partnership Government and his views on whether these targets are realisable unless urgent remedial action is taken to alleviate the current farming income crisis. [19092/16]

Select Committee on Health: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: I remind members that the meeting will be conducted in public session. I also remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones or to switch them to flight mode. Mobile phones interfere with the sound system, make it difficult for technical staff and affect the quality of television and web streaming coverage. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to...

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: As no one is present to move amendments Nos. 1 and 2, they cannot be moved.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: In reference to the comments of Deputy O'Connell, the purpose of the meeting was to agree the Bill. I did invite comments but we do not really need to have a rerun of the debate, if possible.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, and her officials from the Department for attending today's session.

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (14 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016 and has no made amendments thereto.

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: I am sharing - five minutes each - with Deputies Mattie McGrath and Danny Healy-Rae from the rural Independent group. I will speak on a sub-group of homelessness which is street homeless people. Homelessness is a deeply unhealthy state. Many of those on our streets suffer from mental illness combined with drug addiction - a so-called dual diagnosis - but many also have physical...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: I would like to get the views of the delegates on a few of my ideas on how the system can change. There is general consensus that moving more services to primary and community care settings is the way to go. As people come before the committee, we are hearing that primary care is the pillar on which the health service will change. A great deal of unnecessary work is being put into hospital...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: There is a move now to provide universal access to free GP care. That does not necessarily mean universal access to primary care. There are three or four different types of medical cards now, all of which give people free access to their GP, but they will end up paying for their drugs and may not have access to other services like nursing, physiotherapy and dental services. There is a...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: On a point of innovation, there is a commitment in the programme for Government to build 80 primary care centres but what we need are primary care teams rather than primary care centres. A primary care centre is a building and it might be a new shiny one but it does not necessarily guarantee that people will get new shiny services. If we had properly resourced primary care teams comprising...