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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I refer to the presentation made by Mr. O'Higgins and its use of the terms "erroneous and misleading". As the Medical Protection Society, MPS, is not present to defend itself or to offer a counter, in the interests of fairness and balance I ask members to be careful, please, in the language they use. I invite Mr. David Barniville to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Barniville and remind members that the pack for today's meeting contains the substantive documents from all the witnesses who made presentations to the joint committee this afternoon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: As there is a vote under way in the Dáil, I will ask Deputy Kelleher to conclude after which we will suspend the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It is. There is a time limit on everybody so-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We must suspend until after the Dáil vote. I apologise to the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: There are five other members to speak. I will take the panel first and then come back to them. I will start with Mr. Barniville and work down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry, Mr. Barniville. I remind Senators there is a vote in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: On that point, to the non-legal eye from the outside, such as Deputy Ó Caoláin watching on television, it seems more often than not there is this policy of defend and deny, where one gets to the steps of the courthouse and, suddenly, there is an eleventh-hour solution where the injured person and family is put through an inordinate amount of stress and tribulation which should not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In an ideal world, we should not have to have Ms Deirdre Courtney before us tonight giving a heart-rendering account of her daughter, Bríd, and her own experience. That applies cross the board. I am not casting aspersions on anybody in or beyond this room, but that should not be the way of doing business. At times, that is the way it comes across.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. O'Higgins?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Would it be preferable to have a voluntary code at the beginning?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. Cantillon cited the example of Dr. McDonald at the University of Illinois, which appears from the research I have read to have worked reasonably satisfactorily.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask Mr. Boylan to be careful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask Mr. Boylan to be careful when referring to cases that could become identifiable in the public domain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I would like to ask two questions before I hand back to our panel. Surely the delays in the conducting of claims will add to the costs. How can we expedite the process of admitting liability and ascertaining quantum? If we focus excessively on the costs, are we missing the key issues of how to reduce the incidence of medical negligence and how to put in place measures to reduce the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise for the late start. This meeting must conclude at 11.20 a.m. because we have a long-standing appointment with the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety which will begin at 11.30 a.m. and we must allow for the changing of equipment. I remind members and those in the Visitors Gallery that mobile phones should be turned off as they interfere with the broadcasting of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Breen. I invite Mr. Simon Kayll, chief executive of the Medical Protection Society, to make his opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I call on Mr. Martin Varley of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA, to make his opening statement.