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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I beg the indulgence of the committee to congratulate our Vice Chairman, Deputy Ciara Conway, on her wedding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you. I would now like to call on Mr. Tony O'Brien, the director general of the HSE, to address the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members, delegates and those in the gallery to either turn off their mobile phones or put them in flight mode. I welcome the Minister for Health and his officials, Mr. Tony O'Brien and his officials, members and those in the gallery to our first meeting of 2014. I wish everybody a happy, prosperous, tranquil and gentle new year. I also hope the committee will have a good year....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister, the Secretary General, Mr. Lohan and Mr. Savage for attending the meeting this morning. I wish the Minister and her officials, committee members, the secretariat and those behind the glass window, whom we do not see too often, a very happy Christmas. I thank the staff for their great work during the year. It has been a very long year and I sincerely thank committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Emissaries are always welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome to the committee the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, Mr. Jim Breslin, Secretary General, and Mr. John Lohan and Mr. Alan Savage from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. This is our quarterly meeting with the Minister. The questions have already been sent to the Department and I thank the officials and the Minister for answering them in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (19 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the potential of formalised stakeholder engagement regarding the development of State airports; if he will consider liaising with airport management to establish such a consultative body for Cork Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54135/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (18 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place and the anticipated timelines for the acquisition of sites for the development of new secondary schools in Carrigaline, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54611/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (18 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the anticipated benefits of removing the provisions for publication schemes as provided for in section 15 of the Freedom of Information Act; if the proposed section 8 of the Freedom of Information Bill 2013 provides an alternative to this provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54797/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (18 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way the Freedom of Information Bill 2013 will affect the proactive disclosure of information and publications schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54798/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (18 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the proactive disclosure of information, also referred to as publications schemes, under freedom of information provisions; the anticipated impact of the Freedom of Information Bill 2013 on proactive disclosure and publication schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54525/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (18 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason behind replacing sections 15 and 16 of Freedom of Information Act as amended with a single section in the Freedom of Information Bill 2013, section 8; the expected benefits of making this change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54531/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (18 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will furnish details of plans for the roundabouts on the N28 at Shanbally, County Cork and at Shannon Park, Carrigaline; if he will confirm that there will be meaningful engagement with local residents in advance of progressing any proposed works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54612/13]

Third Report of the Constitutional Convention - Same-Sex Marriage: Statements (17 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Third Report of the Constitutional Convention - Same-Sex Marriage: Statements (17 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Third Report of the Constitutional Convention - Same-Sex Marriage: Statements (17 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Third Report of the Constitutional Convention - Same-Sex Marriage: Statements (17 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I congratulate the Minister on his pioneering initiative and salute the men and women in the Gallery from Marriage Equality, GLEN and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, who have given us civil society leadership in this debate. The extraordinary transformation of this country over 20 years is culminating with the report tonight before the House of the Constitutional Convention, and of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (17 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 520. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the rationale for the transfer of grant administering status to the City of Dublin Youth Service in respect of funding provided by her Department to vocational education committees; the procedures that were followed in deciding to allocate such a role to CDYSB; if a tendering process was used for allocating this role; the other bodies...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (17 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 660. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount collected through overpaid tolls on each toll road on an annual basis; what happens such money collected from overpaid tolls; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54162/13]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister, Ms Fiona Prendergast, Ms Bairbre Nic Aongusa, Mr. Tom Byrne and Mr. Colum Maddox for attending. I congratulate Mr. Tom Byrne on his appointment. I thank the officials for their courtesy to committee members and wish them and all the staff in the Department and HSE a very happy and peaceful Christmas and a prosperous 2014. We will see the Minister for our quarterly...