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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (21 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: 4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views that the spectre of 2,177 children having to be housed in emergency accommodation is a blight on the nation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23370/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (21 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: Does the Minister agree that the spectre of 2,177 homeless children living in emergency accommodation is a blight on the nation requiring an emergency Government response and will she comment on the matter? Since I submitted this question, the number of homeless children has risen to more than 2,200. It needs an urgent response.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (21 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: All the actions spoken of by the Minister in the past few months do not address the fundamental problem of providing these children with a home, as opposed to supplying them with services while they are homeless. The psychological damage that these children are subjected to is predictable and avoidable. Not being able to have a normal life, which we would all have taken for granted growing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (21 Jul 2016)

Michael Harty: There will be 47,000 new social houses provided under the housing action plan. By providing 2% of those, 1,000 families with children in homelessness could be taken out of that condition. It is quite unbelievable that in Ireland in 2016, the number of homeless children is increasing month after month, now exceeding 2,200. Homelessness is a deeply unhealthy state, particularly for children,...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank the Chair for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this debate. The European Commission has concluded that Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13 billion to Apple. The Commission's decision is that this is illegal under EU state aid rules because it allows Apple to pay substantially less tax than other businesses. Ireland must now recover this illegal aid....

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank the representatives from Deep End Ireland for attending. I am a GP for a deprived rural area as opposed to a deprived urban area. I understand exactly what the witnesses are saying. I have some points which might help us come to a conclusion about how we can improve our health service. The inverse care law is well-known. It did not just appear yesterday. Tudor Hart was mentioned...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: Will the delegates comment on how the recruitment and retention of general practitioners, GPs, can be managed?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: May I make one more point?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: It relates to recruitment and I am sorry to belabour the point, but Professor Smith will understand the position. The first cohort of graduate entry medical students are qualifying as GPs. They carry a large burden of debt, having put themselves through medical school at a cost of €100,000 or €120,000. Unless that issue is addressed and a system introduced that will allow...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Fawsitt and Professor Courtney for coming before the committee. As Deputy Brassil said, the Carlow-Kilkenny model has been whispered about for years. Unfortunately, it is not being adopted by other hospitals. The first question I have relates to transitional funding. Could the witnesses explain it and how it is used to change from the old system to the new system? My second...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: Is there a trolley problem in Kilkenny?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: Continuity of care is a major issue and GPs are ideally placed to provide for it. With geriatricians, they are probably the last of the generalists practising medicine in Ireland because as it has developed, it has become overspecialised. There are nephrologists, neurologists, respiratory physicians, diabeticians and endocrinologists and they all look at what is happening in their own...

Pharmacy Fees: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: I will share time with my Rural Alliance colleague, who will be here soon. From a medical point of view, the excessive claiming of fees by a chain of pharmacies is disturbing and disappointing. Unfortunately, it gives all pharmacies an unwarranted bad name and diminishes their standing in the communities they serve. Community pharmacies supply an invaluable service to their patients, as do...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: I will start, if that is okay.

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to contribute to the debate. The Road Traffic Bill provides for a number of reforms which are worthy of support. They include the introduction of a new offence of being in charge of a vehicle while under the influence of certain drugs, including cannabis, cocaine and heroin. The Bill also provides for preliminary testing of oral fluids for drugs...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: The water charges issue has been debated more often than any other issue since the Thirty-second Dáil met on 10 March and it has generated the most passion, this evening being no exception. This is because it has been identified as a fault line between Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin and between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Fianna Fáil's change in its position since the...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank the Chairman and Professor Pollock for engaging with our committee. I have just one question. Our system is very fragmented, which reduces the quality of care to our patients, and there is a lack of integration, communication and information technology as well as a lack of resources in primary care and a lack of accountability in decision-making. All these factors lead to a very...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: It related to the introduction of a new system. Professor Pollock suggested that doing it incrementally was not a good idea.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Management of Chronic Care Illness: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank the witnesses for having come in. I must declare, I am a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners and have been since its foundation in 1986. It has brought general practice out of the dark ages and into the 21st century and has been essential for the development of general practice. It is involved in education, standards and research and training. It is not involved...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Management of Chronic Care Illness: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Michael Harty: They are coming. I would like the panel to outline their views on the corporatisation of general practice. There are huge groups of GP practices now being taken over by corporate entities. What are the witnesses' views on the quality of care that can be delivered to a public patient, as opposed to a private patient? I find that it is easier to look after a public patient than a private...