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

Jerry Buttimer: Mr. O'Dwyer stated in his presentation that 30% of funding for his organisation comes from volunteers.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Mr. Dwyer and Dr. Creedon referenced the cost of the hospice bed. Dr. Creedon referred to the model in Canada, Argentina and Catalonia. Is there any willingness in the HSE, which is the overarching body, to engage in a meaningful way to make this a reality? From a purely personal point of view, it is probably much better for people to be in Marymount Hospice or somewhere else. A computer...

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

Jerry Buttimer: Our final speaker is Professor Doiminic Ó Brannagáin, a consultant in palliative medicine.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I apologise as Senator MacSharry is manning the benches in the Seanad and Deputy Ó Caoláin has to attend another committee meeting.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Our next speaker is Ms Paddie Blaney, director of the All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care. You are very welcome.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Creedon. I now call on Dr. Margaret Clifford, who is the chairperson of the Irish Association for Palliative Care.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Clifford. I now welcome Dr. Karen Ryan, a consultant in palliative medicine in St. Francis Hospice and the Mater Hospital.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. O'Dwyer. I welcome Dr. Brian Creedon, chairman of the Irish Palliative Medicine Consultants Association and invite him to make his opening statement.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I most sincerely thank our four witnesses for their presentations and the substantive body of work they have submitted as part of their presentation. They are available on the Oireachtas website and will be part of our final report. We have made a very positive start to our series of hearings.

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

Jerry Buttimer: We resume for our second segment of hearings on end-of-life care. I remind people to turn off their mobile phones off as the sound made by them interferes with the broadcasting of the proceedings and is unfair to staff who have to listen to buzzing in their ears. I thank our witnesses for attending and apologise for the delay to this part of the meeting. We were delayed by a number of...

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

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Crown made that point in his remarks. He used the analogy of the young doctor conducting a battery of tests. Professor O'Shea referred to information about dying as a contentious issue. Have we changed in that regard?

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

Jerry Buttimer: I concur with Deputy Mitchell O'Connor that it is important the issues raised by the witnesses are not lost in the external debate. End of life care will affect all of us. Is it fair to say that assisted suicide will affect a minority whereas we should be looking at the majority?

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

Jerry Buttimer: Is Ms Rickard-Clarke saying that any person can open an undertaker business with no qualification and no standard?

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

Jerry Buttimer: That is not mandatory but is done voluntarily.

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

Jerry Buttimer: With regard to crematoria, is planning permission-----

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

Jerry Buttimer: We resume now in public session and I apologise to our witnesses. There were two divisions in the Dáil and one in the Seanad. Senator MacSharry had to leave us because he is the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on a Private Members' Bill in the Seanad. He sends his apologies.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I must suspend the sitting. I apologise to our witnesses for this interruption, but we are called to vote in the Dáil as elected Members of our democracy.

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

Jerry Buttimer: As five other speakers have indicated, I will now call on Senators Colm Burke and Crown and then Deputy Catherine Byrne, in that order.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I will come to the other members shortly but I want to go back to the panel of witnesses.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Yes.