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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: We are not playing to the gallery in the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy spoke for eight minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: If the question has not been answered, I will allow the Deputy to speak at the end of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: With respect, eight members have been waiting since 9.30 this morning as members of the committee. I will invite Deputy Clare Daly to contribute at the end of the meeting if her question has not been answered. That is the custom in this committee. If members' questions have not been answered, we bring them in at the end of the segment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry to interrupt the Deputy, but I wish to advise Senators that there is a vote in the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I will now call on the Minister and Mr. O'Brien to respond in the appropriate order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Just a moment. There is a vote due in the Dáil at 1 o'clock and Mr. O'Brien has to leave us at 2 p.m. I ask members of the committee to acknowledge that in their contributions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: For the record, it was agreed by the committee at the beginning of the current Dáil that each member would have seven minutes of speaking time at each quarterly meeting. We can revise the requirements for all meetings at another date if members wish. As Deputy Clare Daly is the only member from the Technical Group in attendance, I will allow her to jump in before Senator Jillian van...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I call Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin who has seven minutes in which to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: For the record, the Minister spoke for six minutes, while Mr. O'Brien spoke for 12.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The committee members should consider asking Mr. O'Brien to refer the report to us as the relevant line committee that deals with the Department of Health and the HSE. This is the appropriate committee to discuss the report. I will call on the committee to discuss the matter afterwards. Deputy Kelleher has seven minutes.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 11 o’clock When people speak about Irish Water, there is a sense of a lack of information and communication. When we hear Irish Water speak about off balance sheet borrowing, there is confusion. The ordinary person has no idea what off balance sheet borrowing means or could mean. It would allow Irish Water to borrow money to invest more money than the Government could on its...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us have a real debate about Irish Water, Deputy Cowen.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: We all agree Irish Water has failed to communicate its message in a clear, coherent policy. Before the campaign began it failed to consider the full range of issues and questions which would arise. We have had a confused message from Irish Water, and the confidence of the people in it has been eroded by its failure to communicate properly with them, not to mind the scaremongering by some of...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: -----or that Deputy Boyd Barrett roars about every day. His message is the same every day, to pay for nothing and the Government will pay for everything. That is what his message is.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: There is a need to create certainty and offer people assurance. If Irish Water does this, it will be a good day's work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister. I acknowledge Mr. Fergal Goodman on his appointment. Before I call Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the Health Service Executive, I congratulate Mr. Barry O'Brien on his new appointment and thank him for his courtesy to the committee and the Oireachtas. I wish him well. In his opening remarks I ask Mr. Tony O'Brien to refer to the HSE report on Positive Action....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the Minister. For the benefit of Senators, there is a vote in the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (23 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind Members, witnesses and people in the Visitors Gallery that mobile phones must be switched off because they interfere with the broadcasting of proceedings and with the work of members of staff, which is unfair to them. I formally thank and pay tribute to our outgoing clerk, Mr. Paul Kelly, who is leaving us to go to a different section of the Houses of the Oireachtas. He has been a...