Results 18,461-18,480 of 24,350 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: It is related to legislation.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister and his officials for their assistance and courtesy. I welcome to the meeting Ms Róisín Finan, a transition year student from the Convent of Mercy in Roscommon who is working with Deputy Denis Naughten during her transition year.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012 and has made amendments thereto.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I agree with Deputy Naughten in that it is important we maintain our focus on the whole issue of bed utilisation and, more importantly, on getting people out of hospitals into the community, adopting the model the Minister is proclaiming in terms of primary care and allowing more treatments and more involvement between the patient and the medical services to be in the primary care setting...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Will the Minister give members prior notification of that?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 13, 18 and 19 are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 12, 14 and 20 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The officials have circulated it to the members.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: If the Deputy reads the last line of the first paragraph, it states that the Minister will provide for this on Report Stage as Schedule 3.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes, but there is a vote and some members want to go to the Dáil.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I accept that.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: This is becoming the norm rather than the exception. I concur with the Deputy that people are now questioning their bills because of the increased cost of premiums.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: People are now scrutinising the bills they receive from hospitals. I was told recently by a person that he had been billed for treatments he did not receive, although it may have been an administrative error. However, some people are being billed for treatments they have not received. We were told at a recent meeting with the health insurers and the Health Insurance Authority that people...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 9, 11, 15 and 16 are related and will be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 4, 7, 8 and 17 are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Are we incentivising more use of day care procedures where a patient is in and out on the same day and the elimination of overnight stays? Are we allowing for the market to reflect this?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Long may it continue.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 are related and will be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Another point that we must translate back to people is that we should be using primary care more frequently. The other point we have raised here concerns the market. The constant price increase is a source of huge concern to people, who are opting out in droves in some cases.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: How stands the amendment?