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- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015) Jerry Buttimer: I remind all members that we will have the opportunity next week for the quarterly meeting with the Minister.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015) Jerry Buttimer: If the Minister does not have the information to hand for Deputy Troy re legal costs perhaps he might forward it.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015) Jerry Buttimer: I understand that.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015) Jerry Buttimer: I will chair the meeting. I will have one speaker at a time, please.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015) Jerry Buttimer: This is not on an adversarial note but it is important the committee receives the information on the Estimate in a timely manner. There is an issue not only with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs but other Departments in terms of the process through which we receive information. Deputy McLellan made the point that it often comes to us very late, so I ask officials to work with us...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015) Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015) Jerry Buttimer: As the select sub-committee has completed its consideration of the Supplementary Estimate, Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs, the clerk will send a message to that effect to the Clerk of the Dáil in accordance with Standing Order 87. Under Standing Order 86(2), that message is deemed to be the report of the committee. I thank everyone for attending.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Message to Dáil (3 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending on 31 December 2015: Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Apologies have been received from Deputy Catherine Byrne and Senator Imelda Henry. I remind members and delegates to ensure their mobile phones are switched off or left in airplane mode as they cause interference with the broadcasting of proceedings. In keeping with the joint committee's ongoing work on this issue and this being World AIDS Day, the purpose of the meeting is to have a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Mulligan. I invite Ms Seery to make her opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Seery and her staff for the work they do in Cork. I am being parochial in that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Tierney. As it is the first opportunity he has had to appear before the committee since the referendum, I thank him for the work he did in that regard. I know that it is separate from today's business, but I thank him nonetheless.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is there a particular reason for it, or is it just pure culture?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will suspend the meeting until after the Dáil vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In saying that, Mr. Brady's opening statement and figures show a 210% increase. I taught religion for 16 years when the curriculum was totally ambiguous around homosexuality - or rather, it was totally clear about it. Sexual education was very black and white - they were not to do anything and that was it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Exactly. They did not have sex until they got married and, God forbid, those who were gay did not have any sex at all because they were impure and whatever. Now, we have never had more exposure, with apps, information, rapid testing and the work all the witnesses do - I am not patronising them - and that has brought about a new era in terms of transparency in sexual health. What are we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It is easy to know that Deputy McLellan is not going for re-election.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Last night RTE aired a "Prime Time Investigates" programme on the sex industry. Ms Seery commented in her presentation on the use of condoms and the unintended consequences. She is right in saying that young people access a variety of different sources for information. She said that young people get information from porn sites which she would not want to talk about here. Is it worthwhile...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: What concerns me is that, if young people are impressionable or are influenced by what they see, how do we go beyond the point at which Ms Seery is engaged to educate them at a different level as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV Incidence in Ireland: Discussion (1 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair to Ms Seery and her organisation in Cork, the centre has a very good outreach partnership with schools.