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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

John Lahart: There are many reasons people leave. One is the cultural and social experience that young people have. I am not denying that there are work pressures and things like that for teachers, nurses and so on. Since I joined the meeting 45 minutes ago, the whole discussion has shifted to this. Does the IMO support the public-only consultant contract?

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

John Lahart: My role in this matter was quite small, but I would like to illustrate how hard the families worked on this. I was appointed Dublin spokesperson for my party in 2016. As a Dublin spokesperson, along with colleagues who preceded me in that role, it fell to me to meet the families, which I did on a number of occasions along with my party leader, who was leader of the Opposition at the time. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

John Lahart: ...colleagues said and thank the Chair for the manner in which he has chaired the public sessions. I commend the secretariat and support staff who have provided us with a huge amount of invaluable work and research and background assistance as we move into the final stage of this. I thank our witnesses for coming today. I take a different view from previous speakers. I think the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

John Lahart: As we come towards the end of our work as a committee, I am struck by the quality of the contributions. Without wanting to cast any judgment on anybody, the best wine seems to be coming towards the end. The contributions and papers last week and this have been particularly interesting, stimulating and thought-provoking. We have a national office for research ethics in Ireland which is...

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

John Lahart: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to contribute to the debate. One of the comments Deputy Smith made reminded me of what I was going to say about how separate and apart the Defence Forces historically were as an institution. That was facilitated and seen as necessary. One of the positive outworkings of this process is that is now seen as being archaic. The Defence...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

John Lahart: Despite significant international pressure for a ceasefire, Israel continues to conduct intensive military operations in the Gaza Strip. The death toll, as we know, is in excess of 25,000 people, approximately, including many children and their mothers. While the sympathy of the international community sided universally with Israel following the horrendous events in October, Israel's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

John Lahart: That is very useful. I am fascinated as to how Australia and New Zealand came to work together on the model. Towards the end of the meeting Dr. Chapman might have an opportunity to address that. It is a challenge to those who take the Hippocratic oath. There will be some who find it a challenge they cannot overcome and others, like Dr. Chapman, will see it as a natural progression of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John Lahart: One of the greatest things that has happened to me is cardio rehab. I would have undergone cardio rehab after being under the care of the HSE. It is contracted out to ExWell. I do that. We share a constituency in Thomas Davis GAA Club. It is there on Wednesday and Friday. I think there are four classes. There is a man doing it with me who is 93. It is post-event so it is after a...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

John Lahart: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill and welcome Minister Noonan to the House to listen to our contributions. When my parents moved to a parish called Ballyroan in Rathfarnham, it was the last development before the Dublin Mountains. Tallaght was a village. When we were on a journey down the country, we gave the famous children's catchcry, "Are we there yet?", when we got to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Safeguarding Medical Professionals: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

John Lahart: I have great respect for Senator Keogan, who talked about the slippery slope in Canada. A big bunch of Canadians do not regard it as a slippery slope; rather, they regard it as a logical conclusion. I am not making any judgment either way. Their society is at a different place, either before or after ours. From the evidence we gathered on both sides, the statistics were very interesting....

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: ...Joint Committee on Health, where I would have mentioned this previously, as well as at public meetings, that I am very impressed with the way Scotland handles its care system traditionally. It seems to have a healthcare system that attempts to embrace the individual and embrace communities, and without wishing to diminish the work that is done by the healthcare sector here, we are still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank Ms Walsh, Mr. Wall, Mr. Curran and Mr. Ahern. It is clear they have come more agonisingly close to personally dealing with the ins and outs of this issue than most people have. They have seen the issue and considered it, from both sides, inside and outside. I will make a couple of initial points. I say to Ms Walsh that there is no Bill coming. This committee has been established...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in the United States: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: It is not personalised. It is my view of the statements we have been given. I have become accustomed to something much more academic and technical. I found it a casual presentation. I do not find it particularly pleasing to the eye. I have no issue with some of the facts presented. It is certainly not the model anybody here, although I can only speak for myself, would consider. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

John Lahart: Okay. I would like a little context on why the State moved to decriminalise suicide and the consequences of that. In the work of this committee, we will hear a great deal about a differentiation between assisted dying and assisted suicide. How do both witnesses' organisations view these terms? Clarifying that would be helpful for us. To ask a subjective question, if the witnesses...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

John Lahart: I would ask the following of the Deputies opposite. If information were given to them, would they communicate it to their communities? Would they communicate the State's requirements of different communities in respect of the whole issue of refugees and asylum seekers? Would they drive that message home in order to accommodate the asylum seekers and refugees? It can be tedious...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

John Lahart: The Ministers and their officials are very welcome. I wish to commend both Ministers. Given how we have emerged in very recent times from an economy that was almost completely shut in terms of people’s ability to go to work, but not in terms of economic activity, I would like to re-emphasise one of the starting figures. Growth in employment of 9% is a figure that is easy to glide...

Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Apr 2023)

John Lahart: For 250 years, or two and a half centuries if we go back to the earliest deposit box referred to by Deputy Ó Cuív, these boxes have lain undiscovered, unmoved and untouched, by and large, possibly along with other items, including works of art, maps, documents or larger items. The Bill proposes, in a very sensitive, legitimate and legally safeguarded way, to enable this generation...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the witnesses for staying back. I sympathise with the views of the INOU on supporting the return to work. I do not think we are generous enough about that. I concur with Ms O'Brien about the back-to-work enterprise allowance running out after two years. I have experience of that in my constituency. Individuals need a bit of time if they take that route. They may have the genesis...

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

John Lahart: I was not present earlier but I followed the discussion remotely. I will make some comments because many of the questions have been answered. If there is something the witnesses want to take up in that regard, I am happy to hear it. I found both presentations had different emphases and were quite evocative. Sometimes you think you have processed losses and suddenly you get ambushed when...