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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Does a culture of being more proactive than reactive exist within the HSE? That is the key question. We can deal with issues in our committees, but if that culture has not changed, or is not about to change, then we are beating our heads against a brick wall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. Quinn not see HIQA, as the regulator, as having a role in saying that services are unsafe or safe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Ms Dunnion says there was a plethora of correspondence. Who was the correspondence between?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Does HIQA make recommendations to the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Outside the recommendations of the report in terms of accountability.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Mr. Quinn has said it is not within HIQA's remit to name individuals. Is that why we do not have names in the report? Members have mentioned that it is like being on the vicious roundabout. It is about ensuring patients, mothers-to-be and families have confidence in the service. I am not looking for a name, but if there is no accountability in the system, how can change be implemented to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: That is the point. It is very clear in the report, from my own reading of it, that we did know who knew what was going on. If there is no accountability, we are just providing window-dressing and playing along with the system. Arising from the recommendations, would HIQA advise that the HSE and the Department should come before the committee and outline why they have not implemented the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: If that is the case, who is accountable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Would Mr Quinn favour the amendment of legislation to extend HIQA's remit to include monitoring the implementation of reports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I am conscious of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Did the Minister not write to HIQA in May requesting that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the delegates from HIQA, Mr. Quinn, Ms Dunnion and Mr. Whelan, for their co-operation. I thank committee members and other Members of the Oireachtas for their engagement in the discussion. As I stated, our focus must be on the parents, families and children whose experience of the health service was very negative. It is important that we work collectively to resolve these issues to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (12 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 230. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of elderly supports, schemes or grants that are currently funded in her Department; if she will provide, in tabular form, the annual funding for each scheme or support; the number of persons benefiting from these; the terms and conditions of each scheme; any additional demand being sought; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (12 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 231. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons in receipt of a carer's allowance, a carer's benefit, a respite care grant, a domiciliary care grant, annually, for the past five years; the level of funding available for each for the past five years; the number of persons in receipt of the half rate carer's allowance, annually, for the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief Extension (12 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a further extension to the tax relief for mortgage interest scheme for persons who bought during the period 2004 to 2008, as persons who bought during this period did so at a time of very high prices and are now repaying very large mortgages, and many of these persons are in negative equity, and it would be extremely beneficial, as it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (12 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 447. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the community lifetime rating regime in order that medical cards are considered equivalent to health insurance for the purposes of determining if a person has to pay an age-related levy, and that such a measure would ensure that persons who have medical cards, based on financial circumstances, and therefore neither require nor can afford...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Services for Older People (12 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 565. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of elderly supports, schemes or grants that are currently funded in his Department; if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual funding for each scheme or support; the number of persons benefiting from them; the terms and conditions of each scheme; any additional demand being sought; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (12 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 566. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding levels available to councils for home adaption grants; his plans to amend the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18208/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (12 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 617. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when Carrigaline and Douglas in County Cork will be provided with high-speed broadband; if he will provide details of the exact areas in each location that will benefit from high-speed broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18608/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: This session is a meeting with representatives from Tusla, including Mr. Gordon Jeyes, chief executive officer Mr. Fred McBride, chief operations officer, and Mr. Brian Lee, director of quality assurance, who I thank for attending at such short notice. The purpose of this meeting is to receive an update from Mr. Jeyes on a very serious matter raised last week at the Select Sub-committee on...