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- Marriage Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: They are examples of-----
- Marriage Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Oct 2015)
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- Marriage Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I attended a civil partnership in Christchurch in Cork city. It is absolutely beautiful. It is an old church. The Acting Chairman, Deputy Keating, sings in a choir and is a musician. The atmosphere at this wonderful venue was befitting of the occasion. We changed the ceremony venue from being in the registry office. I would like to speak about the context of what we have done as a...
- Marriage Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy raises an interesting point in that there is an issue in terms of people being able to get married on a Saturday, for example. I do not necessarily agree with him on who can perform the ceremony. The appropriate person is the registrar. I met the registrar in Cork and her ceremonies, whether marriages or civil partnerships, are among the most moving ceremonies one could attend....
- Marriage Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I agree with Deputy Shatter's suggestion. I welcome the amendment and the reduced fee. We can consider this in the context of from where we have come. Civil partnership, as the State allowed it, was the only legal recognition that men and women of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, LGBT, community could get but because of the vote of the people, we are no longer being locked out....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, the director general of the Health Service Executive, HSE, Mr. Tony O'Brien, and his staff in the HSE, Ms Laverne McGuinness, Mr. John Hennessy, Mr. Liam Woods, Mr. Pat Healy, Ms Anne O'Connor and Dr. Colm Henry to our quarterly meeting. I thank Mr. Ray Mitchell...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Before we commence I wish to advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and they continue to so do, they are entitled thereafter only to a qualified privilege in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State. I invite Mr. Tony O'Brien to make his opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry to interrupt. There is a vote in the Dáil. Perhaps we could suspend after Mr. O'Brien has concluded his opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I propose that we suspend until after the vote. Go raibh maith agat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Before we begin I apologise to assistant secretaries at the Department of Health and Children, Ms Tracey Conroy and Ms Frances Spillane, as I did not welcome them in my opening remarks. They are both very welcome here this afternoon. I apologise to our witnesses also for suspending the sitting of the committee for the vote in the Dáil. The workings of parliamentary democracy must be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Deputy who got more than the allocated time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: True.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. Daly has written to us as part of our communication for next Thursday's meeting. He said that the numbers awaiting registration in nursing homes could also continue to rise. They raised the issue with the HSE clinical adaptation programme and asked about the call centre not being established yet. Perhaps it is for the HSE to answer that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: What about the question on deaf-blindness?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Perhaps the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, will respond to Deputy Mitchell O'Connor's question on deaf-blindness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I interrupt the Minister of State to advise that a vote has been called in the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I propose we suspend until after the Dáil vote, if that is agreeable. Apologies to all concerned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I again apologise to our guests, but parliamentary democracy necessitates that we go and vote.