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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health Nurses: Discussion (27 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Hennessy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health Nurses: Discussion (27 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the delegates for their presentation and for the interesting and challenging points raised. I thank the members of the delegation for their excellent work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health Nurses: Discussion (27 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Mr. John Hennessy, Ms Martina Queally and Dr. Michael Shannon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (27 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: We shall discuss EU proposals that have come before us. No. 1 is COM (2013) 168, amended proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and Council on the transparency of measures relating to the prices of medicinal products for human use and their inclusion in the scope of public health insurance systems. It is proposed that this proposal warrants further scrutiny and that we invite...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health Nurses: Discussion (27 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members, witnesses and those in the Gallery that mobile phones should be turned off. We have apologies from Senators van Turnhout and Henry and Deputy Regina Doherty. I welcome our guests and witnesses. We are discussing the role of public health nurses. I pay tribute to our public health nurses across the country for the tremendous work they do on behalf of all of us. The care...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services Provision (27 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on aviation policy; the measures being taken to develop and expand the number of routes and carriers operating from Cork Airport; his views on measures being taken to reduce operating costs at the airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31027/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Creation Issues (27 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress she has made regarding the pathways to work proposal to outsource additional resources for certain labour activation measures, in view of the European Commission’s Winter 2012 Review of Ireland’s Economic Adjustment Programme, published in April, which recommended that this process needs to be accelerated; and if she...

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: It is extraordinary that this motion has been brought before the House by a party that spent 14 years in government. Today, representatives of that party had the audacity to meet the parents of special needs children outside this House to feign a sharing of their indignation and concern. I remind Deputies that the result of its 14 years in at the helm was €64 billion being put into...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: In the absence of Deputy Mattie McGrath I welcome his acceptance of the Supreme Court and its judgments. It is very welcome. In Pride week I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Family Relationships and Children Bill. As the Taoiseach knows quite well many same sex couples await the publication of this very important legislation. Their children await it too, to get formal legal...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Protection (25 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 330. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the protections that are in place for persons who purchase products and services from door-to-door salespersons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30073/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Charities Regulation (25 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 439. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to regulate the practices of charities using street collectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30074/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Charities Regulation (25 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 440. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the commencement of the provisions of the Charities Act and the progress of a regulatory system for the charities sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30075/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 649. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider measures to regulate the use of rickshaws; if he or his Department has had any contact with local authorities regarding this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30076/13]

Topical Issue Debate: HIV Incidence (20 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: It is important that we not only develop a high level steering group, but that we have a national sexual health strategy which targets young men in the age group I mentioned. I should put on record that the Gay Men's Health clinic and Gay Health Network, along with GLEN do powerful work in communicating and working with young men. What cannot be lost in the bureaucratic maze of the...

Topical Issue Debate: HIV Incidence (20 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue. HIV and AIDS are back in the news for all the wrong reasons. Recently, the HIV in Ireland 2012 Report was published by the HSE's Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC. It indicates a worrying trend in the incidence of HIV that needs to be tackled as a matter of urgency in a concentrated, joined-up way by all of the relevant...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I speak as a former Member of Seanad Éireann and am privileged to have served there. I recognise the importance of the House and of a second chamber. It is important that we look at the whole issue of bicameral chambers within a parliament and recognise that, whether we like it or not, the system we have, in respect of elections to the Seanad and how it operates, is broken....

Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Given the success of the Constitutional Convention and the way in which members, and particularly citizen members, have gone about their business to make it a success, when does the Government intend to hold a series of debates in the House on the reports so far?

Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Last Monday, I spoke at the Anglesea Street policing forum in Cork, at which many businesses expressed their concerns regarding the enforcement of the Charities Act. In this context, I wish to raise two items with the Minister. The first is the on-street selling of petitions and pertains to collections permits. It came to light at the meeting that some charities are flying people into Cork...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister is doing a good job.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Bannon is not so quiet now.