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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: That is a fair point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is it agreed that we send the proposed solutions as part of the document to the Department and that we write to it about the vacant position? We will put this on the work programme after Easter in the context of getting a response from the Department to today's presentation. I thank the witnesses and Ms Elaine Hughes, the assistant chief executive, who is in the Visitors' Gallery, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: What would be the benefit of filling that position now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: How has Mr. Hourihan's organisation allowed the situation to continue without the post being filled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: What reason did it give?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I suggest that the committee write to the Department of Health to seek an update. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Does that refer to the dentist or the orthodontist? Surely, parents know without having to go to the dentist that providing Ribena or sugar in the doses we are talking about will lead to tooth decay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I want to bring in Deputies Dowds, Catherine Byrne and McLellan, in that order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is there a reason they are not availing of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Aware of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: How would Mr. Hourihan envisage the voucher system operating?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: In fairness, they are open in Cork.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. Hourihan want to go back to the other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputies Ó Caoláin and Mitchell O'Connor must go to the Dáil. Mr. Hourihan may answer their questions first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Hourihan for the presentation. We hope that members of the association will feel free to interact with committee members. In the absence of Fianna Fáil Deputies, Deputy Ó Caoláin can take the lead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The committee is now in public session. We will consider COM (2012) 541, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on in vitro diagnostic medical devices and COM (2012) 542, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on medical devices, amending Directive 2001/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Mr. Fintan Hourihan, chief executive of the Irish Dental Association, Ms Clare Dowling, employment and communications officer of the Irish Dental Association, Dr. Andrew Bolas, president of the Irish Dental Association, and Dr. Peter Gannon, chairman of the general practitioners' committee of the Irish Dental Association. I thank them for coming to our meeting this morning. We are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Travel (28 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his visit to Atlanta, New Orleans and Washington; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15420/13]

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind the Deputies opposite that this Government will last its full term. We will not be like the Green Party and Fianna Fáil and we will not flake on the Irish people. If I was to arrive in this Chamber from another planet and read Deputy Michael McGrath's motion, I would have said "fair play" because everything to which he aspires is what the Government is doing and everything he...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I did not interrupt the Deputy when he spoke last night. If I was him, I would be embarrassed by Fianna Fáil's record in government. This is not about punishing people. It is about making sure we have people living in their own homes and that banks behave responsibly and work with and not become disengaged from ordinary people who, in the majority of cases, are trying to make an...