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- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: How stands the amendment?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 4, 5, 7 and 14 are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Amendment No. 5 is an alternative to amendment No. 4. Amendments Nos. 4, 5, 7 and 14 will be discussed together
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I accept the Minister's point and to be fair to the Health Service Executive, the joint committee has a meetings with HSE officials, including quarterly meetings, at which the executive engages with committee members. The joint committee has a good relationship with the HSE, although it is not a one-way street. The picture at local level is different, however. If I were a councillor who...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The amendment relates to local level rather than the Oireachtas.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: It is being discussed on its own.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members that mobile telephones should be switched off completely. Apologies have been received from Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, in whose place Deputy Doherty will substitute. This meeting has been convened for Committee Stage of the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012. I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, and his officials, Ms Bernadette Ryan, Mr. Peter...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: No, mine is turned off.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 2 and 17 are related and may be discussed together by agreement by agreement.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: When the HSE was established, we took away political teeth. I served on the HSE regional forum and it was not worth the paper it was written on. There was no accountability and we were fobbed off with answers that were unsatisfactory. In the context of the HSE, the Minister's presence in office notwithstanding, there is a need for political involvement at local level, whatever about us in...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In the HSE, to be fair. I have not dealt with the Vatican that much. The HSE at local level in Cork is very good. I would like there to be more political involvement at local level. While this is not the point Deputy Ó Caoláin is making, it highlights a missing link.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Travel (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 141. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on his visit to Germany; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18348/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for third level grants in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19080/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Death Review Group Report (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on her plans to strengthen the new investment to aftercare as announced at the hearing of the child deaths last July. [19073/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 570. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail the external agencies and NGOs which are funded by the Health Service Executive or her Department to provide aftercare services. [19074/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services Staff Numbers (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 571. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of aftercare workers employed directly by the Health Service Executive. [19075/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 572. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of young people who left care in 2012; and the number of those who received aftercare support. [19076/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 573. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of young people in receipt of aftercare services. [19077/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Death Review Group Report (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on her plans to strengthen the new investment to aftercare as announced at the hearing of the child deaths last July. [19073/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 570. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail the external agencies and NGOs which are funded by the Health Service Executive or her Department to provide aftercare services. [19074/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services Staff Numbers (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 571. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of aftercare workers employed directly by the Health Service Executive. [19075/13]