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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders Notification Requirements (18 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: 156. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is not a national sex offenders register available for inspection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30467/16]

Services and Supports for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: I am sharing time with Deputy Mattie McGrath. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I congratulate Fianna Fáil and Deputy Mary Butler on introducing this topic for discussion. I know the Minister of State is well aware of the topic and is extremely interested in it. I know it is a topic that will probably not be contested and...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank Professor Keane. I have been watching his career for many years. I wish to refer back to some of the themes mentioned by the professor at the beginning of his contribution. He spoke about talking to people who know what the problem is and that is what this committee is all about. We are trying to identify the problem. In the professor's view, what is the problem and where...

Syrian Conflict: Statements (20 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: The civil war in Syria has developed into an humanitarian crisis and a catastrophic situation for the civilian population. This is most apparent in Aleppo. This conflict has become a theatre of war in which Russia and other states are sponsoring and supplying either side. Some of the sponsors are also being supplied with US military equipment. The area has become a regional and...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: I wish to share time with Deputy Mattie McGrath.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: This Bill, called the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill, is set to repeal the Eighth amendment of the Constitution. It is ill judged if taken in isolation from supporting legislation. It would amend the Constitution to remove Article 40.3.3°, which recognises the right to life of the unborn. That progressed over many years and we...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: This was a particularly Irish solution to an Irish problem. The Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill in 2013 redefined the circumstances in which termination could be administered or procured where there would be a real or substantive risk to the life of the mother, which included suicide. These were the only grounds on which a termination could be procured. This gave a statutory...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: Twenty one of 28 countries in the EU allow abortion on that entire suite of options. This is not a simple issue or otherwise it would have been solved many years ago. Medicine and pharmaceuticals have moved on over the years and it is now possible to obtain through the post a pharmaceutical product that will act as an abortifacient. This is subventing and outstripping the Constitution,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (25 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: 77. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Government has undertaken to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with a Disability by end of 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31552/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (26 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 627 of 18 October 2016, if he will extend the existing Dangan-Clooney bus service in County Clare by 2 km to Quin village (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32240/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32245/16]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank the witnesses for attending. As they are aware, the purpose of this committee is to devise a single tier health service based on need rather than the ability to pay. I want to cover two areas, namely, privatisation and work practices. Mention was made earlier to frail elderly patients with multiple chronic conditions being consumers of the health budget. Nursing homes with a large...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: I am an ordinary member of the Irish Medical Organisation. Over recent weeks we have been discussing a change of work practice because if we are to change our health service, we must change the health model. I would like the witnesses' views on changing work practices. The work practices for GPs and hospital medicine have been in place for 40 years and the health service has moved on but...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: I thank the witnesses for attending. I have two questions. Recruitment is a huge, and probably the most pressing, problem in the Irish health service. Earlier, the witnesses from the IMO identified salary as the fourth in priority of wishes of NCHDs to remain in this country. Working conditions, length of contracts and career progression and hope for the future were ahead of salary....

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: Perhaps the witnesses would address the issue of public-only contracts for consultants and GPs.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: In regard to GPs with a public-only contract, surely there is not much of a jump between that and a salaried GP. What would be the advantage of a GP having a public-only contract and not being salaried?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: 116. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32355/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (27 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: I remind all members to turn off their mobile phones or to at least put them on flight mode as otherwise they will cause interference with the broadcasting and sound systems. I propose that we deal with housekeeping matters in private session now. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposal (27 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: The committee is in public session. It is proposed that COM (2015) 674 does not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Michael Harty: The purpose of this part of the meeting is a discussion with representatives of the Connolly For Kids Hospital Group and the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board on the decision of the Government to proceed with the construction of the new children's hospital at the St. James's campus, which was endorsed by Dáil Éireann on 8 November 2016. I propose that we suspend for...