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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: There will be two tranches of €35 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The point made by Deputy Healy was also made at the briefing in Cork on Monday. It is commendable that there is a plan in the southern region to tackle orthopaedic waiting lists. I commend Mr. Pat Healy and Mr. Ger Reaney on taking the initiative but is what is proposed attainable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I omitted to welcome Mr. Liam Woods and Dr. Áine Carroll, both of whom are most welcome to the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Will this result in a reduction in waiting time for the person awaiting a hip replacement who is in excruciating pain?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I am currently on a waiting list. If I receive an appointment by way of letter in the post with a specified consultant at, for example, the South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital in Cork, how quickly, following that appointment, will the process be, in terms of my getting a hip replacement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Five other speakers have indicated. I will call Mr. O'Brien at this point to respond to the questions from Deputies Kelleher, Ó Caoláin and Healy, following which I will call the other five speakers in the order in which they indicated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Will that policy determination come from the Minister and Department of Health?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members that prior to today's meeting, the Primary Care Reimbursement Service issued a comprehensive report on medical cards which together with the agenda and briefing material were sent to members. Both Ms Laverne McGuinness and Mr. Patrick Burke will answer questions on medical cards. Deputy Kelleher has seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes, the Deputy can be parochial provided it is within the realm of the discussion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Smaller Hospital Framework is not part of the HSE service plan in the strictest sense but I will allow some latitude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members and witnesses that mobile telephones should be completely switched off for the duration of the proceedings as they interfere with the broadcast and also are an interference for our staff, which is unfair. As this is also a workplace for members of staff, I would appreciate if all mobile telephones could be switched off rather than put on silent mode. Our discussion this...
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not getting caught at all. Members opposite forget that we must never allow the Irish people to forget that Fianna Fáil led us to where we are today. That will be Deputy Dooley's legacy for eternity.
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We are doing it. There has been reform of the health system. I pay tribute to those who work in our health system. We have seen better care and more changes. I will give Deputy Browne some examples of the changes because I know he wants to hear them.
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Mercy Hospital in Cork now has a new admissions procedure so people can come in for an operation and leave the same day. The South Infirmary Victoria Hospital has reduced the length of stay for knee and hip replacements and now has a pain management unit. This was unheard of previously. Cork University Hospital has a new assessment unit and 85 new beds were opened there and in the...
- Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important motion. It is extraordinary that in two years Fianna Fáil is returning to form. It has abdicated its responsibility and forgotten it was in Government. It never took the Department of Health and Children as it left it to Ms Mary Harney. It did not have the courage to take it. Let me cast the minds of the Members opposite...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: An bhfuil na Teachtaí ar an taobh eile ag éisteacht?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding those secondary and or montessori teachers who have been working within the special education sector and prior to circular 0038/2012 were entitled to apply for panel rights, with the phasing out of the Supplementary Special National Panels the provisions that have been made for those teachers who are adversely affected by the change; if...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the leasing of unsold affordable homes, the policy considerations that must be considered by local authorities when deciding on allocating such properties; the influence the social inclusion policy will have on such decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11924/13]
- Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.