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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Four other Members have indicated. I am conscious of the time remaining and wish to give members and Ministers of State who are present an opportunity to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy has one minute remaining.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is this a sign of things to come?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Allow the Deputy, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator might mention the question numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister. I reiterate my thanks to the committee, particularly to Deputies Ó Caoláin, Kelleher and Healy and Senator van Turnhout for their co-operation during the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill. I thank the Minister, Ministers of State and Department officials for the manner in which they held the hearings and assisted the committee in their presence at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members of the joint committee, witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure that their mobile telephones are switched off, or are on aeroplane mode rather than on silent, because they do interfere with the broadcasting of our proceedings. We are being broadcast live today on UPC. It is also unfair to staff whose hearing is disturbed by mobile telephones going off. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Before we proceed further, I remind witnesses they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and they continue to do so, they are entitled thereafter only to a qualified privilege in respect of their evidence. Witnesses are directed that only evidence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Gibbons for her enlightened engagement with the committee. She came before us with a strong professional background and from her opening remarks and her engagement it is clear that her appointment is the correct decision. She has reaffirmed that by her engagement with the committee this afternoon. I thank her sincerely for that. I join Ms Gibbons in saluting the bravery of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: There is a vote in the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Does Ms Gibbons have a view on the role of children and their input in terms of the consumption of alcohol?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: We are dealing with the appointment of the chairperson of the child and family agency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I never took you for a royalist, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Let us get back to the matter at hand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is there a timeframe in which we can move away from that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is it envisaged that the relationship between the Minister, the Department and the board will be independent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Gibbons for her comprehensive, thorough, professional and engaging presentation. Her opening remarks were refreshing and I thank her for her candour. I call on Deputy McLellan to commence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I will inform the Senator if that happens.

Report of the Convention on the Constitution: Statements (18 Jul 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister and it is important the debate is held today. I will begin with a negative, in the context of Deputy Cowen's remarks on the Constitutional Convention being irremediably flawed. I very much regret those remarks. It set the wrong tone for his contribution to the debate, which in many cases did not focus on the Constitutional Convention at all. He resorted to political...