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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (26 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: 299. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provisions he will make for children with special needs given the extension of the free pre-school year; if additional funding will be provided for increased personal assistant hours for children with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2696/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Commencement of Legislation (26 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: 492. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Vehicle Clamping Act 2015 will be commenced; the progress being made in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2738/16]

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: If managing tourism really is contemplated, explicit responsibility must be assigned in respect of developing and growing the local tourism brand, about which the Minister of State has spoken passionately and which he has implemented in his Department. Aside from the Minister of State, a tsar also is needed to work with Fáilte Ireland and to resource that body and the councils, which...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: We are privileged to have a Minister of State with such vision and calibre in the Department who can listen to people like Deputies Jim Daly and Anthony Lawlor and me and take on board our views. Deputy Jim Daly is correct and I thoroughly concur with him on the ability of Fáilte Ireland to deliver, in the case of Cork, a strategy and joined-up approach to the promotion of the tourism...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members, witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery to turn off their mobile telephones so that they do not interfere with the broadcasting of the proceedings and staff. As members and those who are watching at home and online will be aware, we are in public session. As part of our scrutiny role, the Joint Committee on Health and Children meets with key appointees in the areas of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Horan for her comprehensive statement and compliment her on her impressive CV.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is straying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: To be fair to Ms Horan she left Bank of Ireland in 2005-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: -----which was well in advance of any impending-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The collapse had not happened. To be fair to the witness and to protect her, it is beyond the remit of today’s meeting to bring up those matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Just for the record, I never asked Senator Crown to leave. He is not upsetting me at all. I am just trying to protect the witness, which is my job. It is my duty to chair the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask Senator Crown to be very brief in his contribution, because he has contributed already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: That is a different matter altogether, to be fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: That is not part of the committee's business this morning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: It would be remiss of me not to acknowledge in the public Gallery the new chief executive of the HPRA, Dr. Lorraine Nolan. She is very welcome. I thank her for being here. On the committee's behalf and on my own, I express our appreciation and thanks to Pat O'Mahony, who has been most courteous, professional and personable to the members of this committee. We wish him well in the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Burke has tabled a Commencement debate in the Seanad and apologises for having to leave.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to raise the issue with Ms Horan of support groups for people who have suffered after receiving DePuy hip replacements. A number of women in Cork have expressed concern that there is no support group in Cork. Perhaps Ms Horan could ask the HPRA to look at that as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Horan for the quality of her presentation and engagement. It is quite clear she is a person of exceptional quality and expertise. We very much welcome her appointment and thank her. I thank Dr. Nolan for the promptness of the replies we have received to our correspondence with the HPRA regarding DePuy hip replacements and the medical use of cannabis. We appreciate that. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: We will resume in public session. Is that agreed? Agreed. I remind members and witness to turn off their mobile telephones as they interfere with the broadcasting of proceedings. In this session we will discuss the issue of wellness, well-being and mental health. I welcome Mr. Niall Breslin, perhaps better known as "Bressie", and thank him for his leading role in raising this matter. I...