Results 81-100 of 226 for long speaker:John Lahart

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Chair. I left a voicemail on the phone of the Minister of State explaining my delay. I had a long-standing appointment with the Australian ambassador. One of the first topics we spoke about was mental health from the Australian perspective and the challenges being faced. No nation is perfect, but Australia has a very good record in terms of strategic interventions in the mental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: I appreciate that, but it concerns the present situation. Things may change in the future. This is the point I have been making regarding the long-term lease and structure of the board of management. In other words, what the Minister has said applies today but I refer to what might happen in future. Several clinicians around the country have refused to carry out the procedures concerned...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: ...efficiently and people are living in those houses now. Therefore, the State has been stung by PPPs over the years and we must be mindful of that fact. However, what the public are not being told by those proposing a public model is how long it would take to mobilise that perfect public building model. The Minister and the Deputies know there is a shortage of land. Local authorities...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

John Lahart: ...have wondered whether that site would offer them the opportunity, but it does not because it is all build to rent. That is a savage legacy of the previous Government that will live with us for a long time. As such, I welcome the end of the SHD process, but the Minister and I know that it has done a great deal of damage. Comments have been made in recent days about investment funds...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Cyberattack, Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out and Covid-19 Restrictions in Maternity Hospitals: Health Service Executive (23 Jun 2021)

John Lahart: ...meetings, I know neither the Minister nor the Taoiseach could do anything more than they are doing. How many maternity hospitals are affected? How many are complying and how many are not? How long will the review take? What are the obstacles?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 May 2021)

John Lahart: 517. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the introduction of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system for persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes on the long-term illness scheme. [22657/21]

Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: ...section 252 of the Children Act 2001 was designed to protect child witnesses and child victims from the negative impacts of being publicly identified in criminal proceedings. We do not have to dwell too long, however, to know that publication of those kinds of details forms part of the justice and part of the consolation that victims of crime and their families can derive from the justice...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: This is a general question and I do not need a particularly long answer. Obviously, in a particular focused area of strategy we are trying to convert people to the use of hybrids, non-traditional diesel cars, etc. There are some incentives to encourage people to switch. Obviously, because transportation related taxes account for a significant amount of revenue for the State, when should...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: ...on to talk about the non-viable industries in the context of the 10% unemployment rate. What does the ESRI envisage emerging as non-viable industries? Dr. McQuinn talked about the consequences of long-term unemployment for the State payments. Marrying those issues together, namely, the long-term unemployment rate of 10% and non-viable industries, could he develop the point a little?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: ...organisation have operated in this pressurised environment. There is no indication that pressure is going to let up. I have a question on the figures. How many people approximately are there in long-term residential care in Ireland?

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: ...signed by the President. First, the LDA has an investment of €1.25 billion by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. It is a huge investment and a great deal of confidence behind it. I took the initiative and had a long conversation with the very accessible CEO of the LDA. He gave myself and a colleague 40 or 50 minutes and answered all our questions. I recommend Opposition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: I share in the comment that it is scandalous. I ask Ms Ní Sheaghdha to outline the impact of long Covid on nursing staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: Have nurses with long Covid come back to work?

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: ...- as it does now - the cost of a second mortgage, by putting more cash in the pockets of parents through a significant increases in children's allowances. That subdued the discussion for a long period while the economy was roaring. Once those measures were introduced, there was very little reference in subsequent election campaigns from parents to the cost of childcare because it had...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 802. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide nationwide long Covid clinics; when he expects these to be open; if there is a current waiting list for such clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5621/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 803. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide upskilling to general practitioners to give them the adequate skills to diagnose, treat and understand the myriad side effects from long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5622/21]

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

John Lahart: ...there is a lot of anger and frustration in January 2021 and into this has come the commission of investigation's report into the mother and baby homes. I am reading my way through the report, which is long. I commend anybody who has completed it at this stage and digested and reflected on it. All I can do is add my own voice to the voices of colleagues. We have a limited time in which...

Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

John Lahart: I will not take up a huge amount of time. I made a long contribution to our parliamentary party meeting last night and the Minister is aware of the issues. The key issue is certainty and a decision around deadlines for the practicals and oral exams, for example. I have to come back around to it and ask if there is any general window of opportunity for students listening to this regarding...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (13 Jan 2021)

John Lahart: ...and I wish to echo the comments made by previous speakers. My questions include the following. We have been told that there will be an abundant supply from March 1 onwards. That is two long months away. What are the plans for the roll-out of this abundant supply? Is the ICT infrastructure built and operating? The public has clearly moved from pre-Christmas-mode vaccine anxiety...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (10 Dec 2020)

John Lahart: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address long waiting times for psychology appointments in primary care in south-western areas of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42300/20]