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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Some of the remarks are bordering on being personal and unfair.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Can we get back to amendment No. 32?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 27 and 28 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy's statement should be relevant to the Bill.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: That is not relevant to the Bill.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Could we have one speaker at a time? I will chair the meeting and advise when speakers can contribute. Debate should be specific to the Bill rather than straying into other areas that are not related to it. The Minister can reply to Deputy Ó Caoláin.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 25 and 41, in the name of the Minister, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The amendments are being discussed together, so the Minister should address her amendment now.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Amendment No. 21 in the name of Deputy Ó Caoláin has been moved. I remind members that if amendment No. 21 is agreed, amendments Nos. 22 and 23 cannot be moved. The amendments are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 21 to 23, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I propose that we now suspend the sitting to allow Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin to speak on Topical Issues in the Dáil.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I have received apologies by Deputy Eamonn Maloney. Deputy Robert Dowds is substituting for him today. I remind members not to name officials or organisations that are not present and to confine their remarks to the Bill.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 17 to 21, inclusive, are being discussed together. I realise Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has a Topical Issue to raise in the Dáil. I propose, therefore, we suspend the sitting for the period of that debate and then reconvene. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: That is fine. The Deputy will be able to discuss it in the Dáil.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: That is a mistake.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank all the witnesses for their presence this morning and for the substantial body of work they presented to us in written form. We have had a positive meeting this morning. The good news for members is that there will be no meeting next week on account of our mid-term break. This committee will meet again on Tuesday, 5 November at 5 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: In the absence of the clerk, who is ill, I must defer the answer to that question until the next meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Will it be possible to do so in the future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I asked the Minister and the officials from the HSE a question about the unique patient identifier at last week's meeting of the committee. Is Dr. Ryan happy that it might progress?