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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy is well into it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy is eating into Government time now. I call Senator van Turnhout.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Senator Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Mr. James Doorley, deputy director of the National Youth Council of Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Our third and final sequence of meetings will discuss pre-budget submissions from various voluntary organisations working in the health and children sector. I welcome representatives from the Children's Rights Alliance and the National Youth Council of Ireland to our meeting. I thank them for the work they undertake on behalf of all of us and for both their oral presentation and the written...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Hannigan and all of the witnesses. It has been a rapid-fire session but we are trying to get as much coverage as we can today as part of our pre-budget submission. I thank all the witnesses for being present and for making their presentations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask Dr. Sadlier to start. There are about 18 minutes left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: There is a vote in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy's time is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy has already used six minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy can have a minute now and I can bring him in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Finally, but not least, I welcome the president of the Irish Medical Organisation, Dr. Matthew Sadlier. He is very welcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We have that paper. I thank Dr. Sadlier. As we have concluded our presentations, I express my hope that this day does not become a festival of alcohol consumption. I regret, and I hope that many of those present agree with me, that this supposed celebration of Arthur's Day is wrong. It sends the wrong message. Perhaps the committee should consider the issue again, given the vested...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Time please, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Our next speaker is Mr. Tadhg Daly, chief executive of Nursing Homes Ireland. He is very welcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Our next speaker is Dr. Shari McDaid, director of Mental Health Reform. She is very welcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the guests, witnesses, members and those in the Visitors Gallery to the second session of our pre-budgetary submission hearings. Some members have left due to various commitments but I hope they will be back in due course. This committee decided it is important to hear from the witnesses at these hearings rather than have external briefings, all organised in witnesses' own sectors...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Our next speaker, whom I welcome, is Mr. John Hannigan, vice chairman of the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Mr. Michael Harty, chairman of Home and Community Care Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Briefly.