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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the witnesses for the lack of members, but some of them are speaking in the Dáil or are dealing with constituency matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Would it be possible to provide that information to the committee so that it can be distributed to members?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Can insurers not charge per procedure in a public hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Does that mean that in terms of clinical auditing, insurers challenge the costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: How robust is the questioning and challenging of the costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: What happens if I am a patient in hospital and the hospital authorities decide to do an ECG, a stress test and something else and after a plethora of tests, the bill comes back at X amount and half the tests were not needed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: My comment is not directed at Mr. O'Dwyer specifically.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: My question was directed at all of the health providers rather than just the VHI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Just ask questions, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank all the delegates for their presentations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: When asking questions, I ask members to identify the company they are addressing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Mr. Brian Dunne, who is chairman of Aviva Health.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Mr. Jim Dowdall, who is the CEO of GloHealth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We are now in public session. I remind members, witnesses and people in the gallery to turn off their mobile telephones. I apologise for keeping people waiting. We had a very lengthy discussion on the EU directive. With regard to our discussion in private session on COM (2012) 788, a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will now discuss the matter of health insurance. I welcome representatives of the health insurance providers and I apologise to them for the delay. We did not expect to spend so long discussing an EU policy directive on tobacco. I hope they understand it was an important issue and we had to seek clarification on it. I welcome Mr. John O'Dwyer and Mr. Declan Moran from VHI, Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Except the 40g.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Someone’s telephone is ringing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee, for giving of their time and for their extensive presentation. We will move into private session to deliberate further. If they would not mind doing so, I ask people in the public gallery to leave us for a while.