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

Jerry Buttimer: How do we compare to Europe or the rest of the world in that regard?

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

Jerry Buttimer: Is it a cultural thing or-----

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

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. McCarthy and all the witnesses for their excellent testimony this morning. I apologise on behalf of Deputy Ó Caoláin who had to leave. He is dealing with a Bill later and he had to leave to prepare for it.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Professor O'Shea and welcome Dr. Joan McCarthy from the school of nursing and midwifery at UCC.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Ms Foley. I now invite Ms Patricia Rickard-Clarke who is representing the national council of the Forum on End of Life in Ireland.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you Ms Rickard-Clarke. I now call on Professor Eamon O'Shea from the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome everyone to the public session of the meeting. I remind those in attendance that all mobile phones must be switched off as they interfere with the sound and recording system. The first item of business is the scrutiny of COM (2013) 619, a proposal for the regulation of new psychoactive substances. It is proposed that this proposal warrants further scrutiny. It is proposed to...

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

Jerry Buttimer: The meeting is divided into two parts. I ask members to be concise in their contributions as this will assist in the running of the meetings. This is the first meeting in a series which will investigate the arrangements for end-of-life care in Ireland and what measures can be taken to ensure that persons of all ages who are approaching the end of life are enabled to die well and with...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passports Data (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports in circulation in date and currently valid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45385/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passports Data (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports issued to persons ordinarily resident in Ireland or persons using Irish addresses on their application in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45386/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passports Data (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports issued to persons ordinarily resident outside Ireland or persons using addresses in other countries on their application in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45387/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passports Data (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the connection to Ireland that is required in order to qualify for an Irish passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45388/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards and general practitioner visit cards that have issued to persons in County Cork each year from 1999 to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45384/13]

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I very much welcome the debate and wish to address the motion and the amendment. In doing so, we should show not just by our words but also by our deeds the respect we have for our seniors. Irrespective of party politics, we all strive to keep our senior citizens within the community. I hope the Minister, in his contribution, will state that there is a need to address the concerns and...

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I was also out there yesterday speaking to people. I met them and understand the frustration they have. I do not live in an ivory tower, I understand the concern people have, and my opening remarks addressed that. All I hear from Deputy Boyd Barrett is utter baloney about living in a utopian world that does not exist. He is from a failed ideology.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Our senior citizens are people we should respect and are not just economic statistics. I remind the Fianna Fáil Members opposite of the failed policies they pursued from 1977 to 1981 and also in their last 14 years in government when they bankrupted the country. They threw money at everything. The only cash Mr. Bertie Ahern traded in was to buy votes and we know what happened. Deputy...

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I hope when Deputy Niall Collins and I grow old -----

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I know Deputy Niall Collins is uncomfortable because he does not want to hear-----

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: If I am, then I would be happy to go and face the people.

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Regardless of whether Deputy Niall Collins likes it, the reality is that he cannot airbrush what Fianna Fáil did for 14 years and which he supported for the years he was a Member of this House.