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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: When HSE representatives come before the committee next week, we will put it to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to Professor Dunne but we are caught for time in terms of the vote in the Dáil. Could he keep his remarks to two and a half minutes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: If I may stop Professor Dunne there, we will suspend until after the vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will suspend until after the Dáil vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to our witnesses, Members of the Seanad and those in the Public Gallery. Sometimes in this business, parliamentary democracy interferes with the real democracy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I have no doubt that the Senator won the coup; he emerged victorious. Professor Dunne was in possession.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that the only reason?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Could that be done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We heard about Gay Byrne's involvement in the campaign. Is there not a need to educate people? I am sure the duty falls on a combination of people and organisations. This relates to my earlier comment that there is a sense of fear and trepidation. This is borne out in the survey. If doctors did not accede to their patients' requests and decided, as Senator Crown suggested, to prescribe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Internet is laden with health warnings and caveats in terms of reliability. Wikipedia has become a tool for self-diagnosis. If people get a pain in their head they will go online to investigate the cause. That should be done with a big health warning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Did Professor Dunne mention a figure of 21% of pharmacists in regard to educating patients? I did not quite hear what he said. I am surprised that the figure for pharmacists would be that low, because in my experience pharmacists engage closely with people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The pharmacist in my community and his assistant will take the time to provide an explanation of medicines to their patients. Last year, when my father was ill, the two pharmacists took care to explain that something was for A, B and C and that my father needed to do X, Y and Z. I was impressed by the quality of care they provided. I was just the messenger but I was told in detail what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does the APMI have a budget for educating people on the types and uses of tablets?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses for meeting us. It has been a very informative meeting and I was impressed by the contributions from all four witnesses. They have helped us in considering how we can improve the implementation of reference pricing and generic substitution to benefit patients and reduce the cost of drugs. We appreciate their investment and the jobs they have created but, wearing our...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the reason methadone is used as the sole opioid treatment; if consideration has been or will be given to using buprenorphine as an alternative treatment option; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9638/15]
- Family Home Mortgage Settlement Arrangement Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: While I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, we cannot give people false hope. We must encourage engagement both on the part of the banks and people who are in mortgage distress. Banks should be mindful that the importance of the family home cannot be underestimated. It is not a question of bricks and mortar or the number of bedrooms; it is about a lifetime of memories and a key...
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: An bhfuil a fhios ag an Taoiseach cathain a bheidh dréachtpholasaí eitlíochta foilsithe? An mbeidh seans againn an polasaí sin, atá i ndréachtfhormáid anois, a phlé sa Teach seo?
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is ea. The national aviation draft policy.
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy McGrath is scaremongering.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (4 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider sanctioning an increase in wages and/or restoring the rent allowance payment for the recent intake of trainee members of An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9593/15]