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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: We will suspend as there is a vote in the Dáil. I apologise to our witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: We will see. We will resume after the Dáil vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Our final speaker is Ms Joan Kelly who is a nursing services manager with the Irish Cancer Society. Ms Kelly is very welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Nolan. I call the next speaker, Professor Cillian Twomey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Madden for her presentation. Our next speaker is Mr. Bryan Nolan, communications and development co-ordinator in the Irish Hospice Foundation. I welcome Mr. Nolan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Naughton and welcome Dr. Deirdre Madden, lecturer in law in University College Cork, UCC.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry to have to tell you that you are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Our next speaker is Margaret Naughton, secretary of the National Association of Healthcare Chaplains. You are very welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I now call Dr. Geoff King, who is director of Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council and clinical lead of the HSE national transport medicine programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you. I now invite Professor Patrick Plunkett from the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members, witnesses and those following the proceedings from the Gallery to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off for the duration of the meeting because they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even on silent mode. Before we commence the main proceedings of today's meeting, as Chairman I am tabling a motion to ask Dáil Éireann to consider this committee's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is that agreed? Agreed. RTE television will broadcast a programme on organ donation next Monday at 9.35 p.m. The programme will highlight the story of Shane Finnegan and Joe Brolly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The main matter on our agenda is a discussion on end of life care in Ireland. I thank everybody who has been involved thus far in our hearings and welcome this morning's witnesses to our sixth and final session of meetings on end of life care in Ireland. We have had a comprehensive, thorough, sensitive and wonderful set of hearings and I am sure this morning will be no different. I thank...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I really hope that Deputy Collins never assumes power because I would hate to see her in charge of any Department because she stands for nothing and is against everything. I am most disappointed with her contribution. Deputy Collins is like the fairy godmother sprinkling her wand here and there but no answers, no magic, only empty rhetoric. She will never have an answer to the question.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: This Government spends €13.2 billion on health in a country of four plus million people. That is a fact, not fiction.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy is wrong and she should withdraw her remark that those who are entitled to a medical card will not get one. They will. The most vulnerable and those who need it the most will get a medical card. The Deputy is incorrect again. This is typical of the rhetoric in which she engages, time after time. Deputy Boyd Barrett and Deputy McGrath put their fingers in the air to see which...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Whether Deputy Collins likes it or not, the health system of our country is all about the people, the patient, the person who requires a service. That is my only motivation as a person, as a public representative and as chairman of the health committee. For too long we have heard the health vested interests shouting and roaring and using megaphone diplomacy when they should be coming into...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil ran from the Department of Health under the Fianna Fáil-PD-Green Party Government because they could not take it. They were afraid of it. Deputy Micheál Martin ran with his hands up screaming and Brian Cowen called it Angola. These are the harsh facts.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: At a time of plenty, during the so-called Bertie Ahern Celtic tiger era, when money was thrown at everything, Fianna Fáil, the Green Party and the PDs, had to introduce Supplementary Estimates at a time of boom. Money does not solve everything. During September 2013, 1.987 million people, 43% of the population have either a medical card or a GP-visit card. This is an increased...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government is creating 3,000 jobs per month and unemployment is decreasing. That is fact, not fiction. I know the Deputy will be disappointed because she wants the Government to fail so that she can propagate her message of doom and gloom again.