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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I am glad he fell off the horse in the right way and has come over to our side in regard to how we can rescue our country. For that I applaud him. I will come back to his remarks on the banks. This debate is to be welcomed because the Bill is significant in the context of the road travelled by the country and people to recovery. Let us cast our minds back to the days prior to 2011....

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: The reality, as Deputy Kelleher knows, is that our election manifesto in 2011 was quite clear. This Bill is welcome. I speak as a public servant who has spent all of his life teaching and being involved in a voluntary capacity with organisations dealing with disability. I fully understand the role played by public sector workers and their families in our communities as we as a country rose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Apologies have been received from Deputies Ó Caoláin, Kelleher - both of whom are in the Dáil for Question Time with the Minister - Conway and Maloney. Deputy Fitzpatrick sent a message to the effect that he is stuck in traffic and apologises for being late. The purpose of this meeting is to resume our pre-legislative scrutiny on the general scheme of adoption (information and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I call Dr. Shannon. I am conscious the joint committee must conclude this part of the meeting by 10.30 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: As there are no other questions, I thank Dr. Shannon sincerely for his contribution. As always when he comes to this committee, his testimony is not only powerful, but persuasive. I thank him and Ms Carey for their attendance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: We will resume in public session. Is that agreed? Agreed. I welcome, to our second session this morning, representatives from Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, and, in particular Mr. Fred McBride, chief operations officer; Mr. Cormac Quinlan, interim director, policy and strategy; and Ms Siobhan Mugan, interim national manager for adoption. I remind witnesses that by virtue of section...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. McBride and call Deputy Sandra McLellan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: That is fine. The witnesses may liaise with Senator van Turnhout or the clerk.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: It is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to thank Mr. McBride, Mr. Quinlan and Ms Mugan for their contributions and their participation at the joint committee this morning. I will now suspend the meeting until 11.30 a.m., when the Minister will be with us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, who is joined by Ms Michelle Shannon and Ms Noreen Leahy. They are all very welcome and I thank them for being here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the departmental officials for the work they have done to bring the Bill to this point. This is our third session and we have already heard from the Adoption Authority of Ireland and Tusla. This is our second last meeting on the topic and next week we will hear evidence from a number of witnesses representing a range of organisations and people, including foster parents, birth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: We will turn down the volume down. I apologise to the Minister. It is the joys of broadcasting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: The purpose of pre-legislative scrutiny is to hold the hearings before the Bill is drafted. I do not agree with the Senator, as Chairman of a committee that has been engaged in pre-legislative scrutiny.

National Asset Management Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for moving the motion. It is extraordinary that we have had one of the best budgets in modern times and the Opposition Members cannot table a Private Members' motion on that.

National Asset Management Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: The concept of NAMA was created by the Members opposite. It is the legacy of Fianna Fáil's period in office and of the financial and property crisis this country had to endure. Many of us in this House wish we did not have NAMA at all. It is a stark reminder of a country that was in turmoil and in the midst of uncertainty. That dark period has changed, despite what some of the...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Conway raised the issue of section 37 of the Employment Equality Act, and it is important that we set a date for dealing with that matter. This House has already passed the Marriage Equality Bill following a vote of the people, as well as the Gender Recognition Bill. However, one of the pieces that is still missing is amending the Employment Equality Act to give certainty to people...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: People are not afraid to go into accident and emergency departments.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy McGrath ran away when he was in government.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy McGrath could not take the heat at all.