Results 1-20 of 225 for long speaker:John Lahart

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

John Lahart: ...bits. There are some things I am very happy to take on here. I wish to ask the CEO of the Irish Lung Fibrosis Association a couple of questions. Why does ILFA not receive any State funding, how long has that gone on, and how much does it cost to run ILFA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

John Lahart: ...the witnesses some of the points relating to the post-acute clinics established by the HSE. I want to ask about three or four points. The HSE says: Patients can be referred between Post-Acute and Long Covid clinics, depending on their symptoms. In some patients that are referred, the symptoms with which they present are not attributed to Long Covid, and the patient may be experiencing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

John Lahart: By long Covid Ms O'Connell means that where someone contracted Covid or tested positive or whatever, immediately after that or as a continuation of the classic Covid symptoms, this other set of characteristics, some of which are unique, started to display. I am interested in how the HSE describes this as an entity. It does not describe it as a disease. I wonder why the witnesses think that is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

John Lahart: Okay. Is long Covid an infection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

John Lahart: What I was asking in the previous session was whether there are symptoms unique to long Covid. The impression I am getting is the symptoms, especially the most acute ones, were triggered by the original Covid infection. They do not seem to be unique in any way to warrant them being described as a separate entity as long Covid. Some of them may have worsened, etc. The people sitting in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

John Lahart: ..., in the HSE paper, the witnesses are saying that when they looked at these, they just turned out to be a more acute form of asthma, which was already there. That seems to be writing off the long Covid piece. That is how I interpreted that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

John Lahart: ...xed; Bhriain has just outlined there is for me a much more sympathetic, compassionate description than in her opening statement. On that notion of a constellation of symptoms and in terms of defining long Covid, have the witnesses ever experienced a disease or an infection that subsequently caused a constellation of infections or disorders or that could be characterised as an entity...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

John Lahart: ...closures were not the fault of An Post. In Templeogue, the shop housing the post office shut and An Post could not find a replacement operator. In Rathfarnham, the postmaster, whose family had been a long time operating the post office, died before Christmas. That was a significant loss to the community. An Post has been trawling for other operators to take over but has not been...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

John Lahart: .... We are approaching a level of maturity where we can talk about things on this island without losing our heads. There are some conversations that were never had, including in the Republic. For so long, many people on the other side of the House and even some on this side of the House have thought a united Ireland is colonisation in reverse, where we absorb the unionist and Protestant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

John Lahart: ...living. One of the big learnings for me throughout recent months is that as a State, we need to redouble our efforts. This does not mean we are going to get it right, but we need to take a good long look at and analyse how we assist people in living, see where the failings are and discover how we can do much better. My simple summary of what has been said is that if we help people to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)

John Lahart: ...Not everybody is comfortable with those maps. Some 3,500 people signed that petition. There is a really short corridor of interest. I ask the NTA to look at that. I did flag it. There has been a long time-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (28 Nov 2023)

John Lahart: ...out by the NTA. Some of them have rolled out in my constituency. I was alerted to the potential impact of some of these changes recently, notwithstanding the public consultation that took place a long time ago. We will come back to that in part two of my contribution. For the first time, I carried out an online petition to assess the impact and the public response. I expected...

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

John Lahart: We could have a very long conversation just about that piece, about a patient's wishes and a family overruling it, possibly, and a GP going with a course of action based on what, I wonder. I do really wonder about the knowledge of the wider family, given the interaction time GPs have with people. It is not particularly long. I have also experienced GP interaction in my own family in those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

John Lahart: ...by the Greek and Roman philosophers or the age of enlightenment. Now, it has all kind of averted to the scientific advances in the 20th century with regard to medicine that have helped to prolong life. However, it also impacts diseases and illnesses as a result of life being prolonged, and maybe we are experiencing things that simply were not experienced, certainly at the time when...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: ...innovation on the Minister’s part. It will be one of a number of things for which she will be remembered. It represents a shift in the funding mechanism of the Government, for example. I have long believed that every Department has a role to play in well-being and mental health so it is not only the Department of Health’s funding that goes towards these initiatives....

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: ...traditionally or historically by religious orders or religious institutions going back many decades and they were transformed into voluntary organisations. The mind boggles as to why it has taken so long for the rubber to hit the road on this issue. The bottom line is the State accepts that the ability of these organisations to pay their staff is highly dependent on the money the State...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: ...Minister said, some parts of the Bill can be enacted immediately while we will wait for other parts to be enacted. In regard to parts on banning vaping products for children, three years seems a long time. If the tobacco companies or other companies find some way of circumventing it, we may have to wait for three years. The Minister said two years but I ask the Minister and his...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: It becomes a little bit like asking, "How long is a piece of string?". One of the things that strikes me about tobacco, for example, is that it does not ever seem to be necessary for the tobacco industry or film industry to credit tobacco with the funding of movies. I have always been of the impression that this is the case, however. It is particularly insidious in some movies. One cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: .... If I pleaded with you and said I had considered this, and said my life is completely meaningless and has lost its value for me, that I am in indescribable pain and have endured it for quite a long time, and it is not my inability to endure pain that is leading me to this decision; it is just the meaninglessness of it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

John Lahart: ...to the clinic environment, is there a reasonable possibility that the pressures under which surgeons, doctors and the medical team operate in restricted environments are not ideal, as we await the long-awaited children's hospital? Have the outcomes here been a function of that environment? Have there been any complications with CE equipment or approved equipment similar to the...