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Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Second Stage (12 Dec 2019)

Michael Harty: ...and recognition for what has happened, to ensure that it will not happen to anybody else, to get reasonable compensation if they have been damaged, which is where the no-fault compensation scheme would apply, and to avoid adversarial, lengthy, stressful proceedings, which can take years, do not do anybody any good and cost a fortune. It is important that we do not fall into an element of...

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Michael Harty: ...for the public good. In the health committee and in the Sláintecare report we have said public money should be spent for the public good in respect of our hospital and health services. This also applies to housing solutions. Public land should be used for the public good because the private market will not solve the public housing crisis. It is slowing down the provision of social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector (Resumed): Discussion with Fórsa (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Harty: ...care teams. Unfortunately, many of our community care teams are missing many of these important specialists. This inhibits the delivery of care in the community. Is there a lack of such specialists applying for jobs? Is the moratorium inhibiting the recruitment of people? Is the complex nature of recruitment the problem? Many teams are deficient.

Select Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2019)

Michael Harty: Does that also apply to a patient in a level 4 hospital who is stepped down to a level 2 hospital?

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: ...efforts of the Dáil and of Government in this area are commendable, difficult issues persist. Hospital waiting times remain at an all time high. There is a lack of bed capacity for acute care and soon the same will apply to elective care. Many permanent consultant posts and nursing posts lie vacant and the exodus of our health professionals continues unchecked. Sláintecare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Michael Harty: On the proposed statutory homecare scheme that will be introduced in the near future, will the same assessment criteria be applied to it as are applied to the nursing home scheme?

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Harty: ...? Ireland, on the other hand, has decided that its future lies in converging with the EU and becoming a more integral part of the EU. We all know we have differences over how EU laws are applied and interpreted, but Ireland has decided that its future is much more secure in converging with the EU and trying to sort those problems out internally. What type of Brexit does the UK want?...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Michael Harty: ...fund is to be used to mitigate the significant affects on workers and local communities as the transition happens. However, It is to be confined to peat burning stations in the midlands and will not apply to the Moneypoint plant in west Clare. Will the Taoiseach and the Government consider extending the just transition fund to the Moneypoint plant and surrounding communities and workers...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Michael Harty: ...the resultant greenhouse gases make burning coal quite expensive. The Moneypoint plant is going through a transition and reducing its workforce from 194 to fewer than 100. The just transition fund should also apply to it. There is no difference between it and the mid-west in terms of the effects the closures will have on the workers, their local communities and the enterprises and...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Michael Harty: ...of. Home help hours are essential and it is difficult to argue against an increase of 1 million hours. I am certainly not doing that. There is, however, a problem in the delivery of home help. People cannot be found to deliver that service. The restrictions applied through the social welfare system restrict people in receipt of social welfare who want to contribute to society. They...

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Sep 2019)

Michael Harty: ...work in fossil fuel industries should be given opportunities to transition to new jobs via retraining into environmentally sustainable jobs or other careers to sustain their communities. If one applies this to Moneypoint or to the peat-burning industry in the midlands, companies such as the ESB and Bord na Móna should have a responsibility to support those losing their jobs who wish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Michael Harty: ...? Errors are inherent within screening. The High Court judgment on absolute confidence in any cytologist looking at a smear was that if he or she had any doubt whatsoever, he or she would have to apply the absolute confidence principle. Will it be built into any new audit process to be introduced? To come back to Deputy Kelly's question, to which we did not receive a clear answer,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Transport Services (2 Apr 2019)

Michael Harty: ...and integration elements were not picked up in a tendering process, which is the difficulty for Clare Accessible Transport. It is also restricted in expanding its services. Although it has applied to the NTA to expand and develop new routes, it has had no response from the NTA in that regard. The quality of service and the expansion that it would like to bring about has not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Medicines Strategy: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Michael Harty: ...representations made in the Dáil from groups stating that a certain drug is available in ten or 20 other European countries and asking why it is not available in Ireland. Moral pressure is being applied to Governments and politicians. We are all also subject to lobbying from big pharma companies concerning making orphan drugs available for rare and ultra-rare diseases. We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Harty: If the surrogate mother runs into difficulties during her pregnancy, which mean she could not have any further children, would that create a precedent whereby she could try to have parentage applied to herself, having previously agreed not to do so, because of that particular medical circumstance?

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Michael Harty: ...issue but did not clarify the position. My third question relates to farming. What supports will be available to farmers both to help them cope with the difficulties of exporting if tariffs are applied and in the context of Common Agricultural Policy payments, such as the single farm payment and others? I also wish to ask about funding from the EU in the area of education, such as...

Government's Brexit Preparedness: Statements (17 Jan 2019)

Michael Harty: ...our ports. We must consider border controls and there may be such controls, whether they would be virtual or real. We must consider regulatory alignment. We must also plan for what tariffs would be applied to Irish exports, particularly Irish agricultural exports. Effectively, it will be economic considerations that will dictate what arrangements are arrived at rather than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)

Michael Harty: That did not apply up to now.

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Dec 2018)

Michael Harty: I thank Deputy Brassil for introducing this Bill and applying to it his expertise in this area. It involves an amendment to the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. Deputy Brassil is proposing to establish specific criteria that would be applicable to orphan medical products in regard to the HSE making decisions on reimbursement and prescription by doctors. The health...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Harty: ...that could possibly transfer over to termination of pregnancy. This amendment is too prescriptive. It places an obligation on the parents to be informed and this trumps all else. It also applies time restrictions depending on what section of the legislation is being invoked. Consent is important, but it has to be done in a structured way within the safeguards that are already present...