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- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: As I listened to Deputy Finian McGrath's contribution, it seemed to me that he was talking about a different world from the one in which we live. The Government is charged not only with governing this State but with ensuring we have a country to hand on to the younger generation, including the young students in the Visitors Gallery today. This Bill is about fiscal responsibility, about the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: We hope we can work in parallel with the work on the task force report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses for attending, for their very comprehensive presentations and for answering questions. I thank the members. I remind the latter that the questions for the Minister for Health and the HSE, to be answered at the meeting on 15 November, should be submitted to the secretariat before the close of business today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Eamonn Coghlan's programme is in place also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: That issue is not on the agenda today. We will come back to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Deputy Robert Dowds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is in enough trouble already. He should-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Ms Mulvihill. We will now take questions from members, beginning with Deputy Catherine Byrne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: That is an important aspect of healthy eating.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I take this opportunity to welcome Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor to her first meeting of the committee.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: He might be on the front page as the playboy of the western world.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: How can we give that support?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Fitzpatrick made a comment about a possible solution. I cannot disagree with any of the comments, which were brilliant. However, we held a similar discussion here last week. Let us suppose I am in the supermarket and I have my shopping list. How do I relate it to the top shelf and the pyramid? How do we get the mindset of the mother or the father or the person doing the shopping...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Dr. Devlin, for your sobering and challenging presentation. I also welcome Dr. Catherine Woods, Dr. Cliodhna Foley-Nolan and Ms Emma Jane Morrissey, who are in the Visitors' Gallery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I beg your pardon, Deputy. I have received apologies from Deputies Maloney, Ó Caoláin and Senator Henry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Deputy for his brevity. He only spoke for three minutes, which is excellent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The final group is the special action group on obesity. I welcome Dr. John Devlin, deputy chief medical officer, Dr. Nazih Eldin from the HSE, Dr. Mary Flynn from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, and Professor Donal O'Shea who is back with us again. I invite Dr. Devlin to make his presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Dempsey for this thought-provoking presentation. I also thank Mr. Kelly. I invite our guests from the Irish Heart Foundation - Mr. Chris Macey, who is the foundation's head of advocacy and Ms Maureen Mulvihill, who is its head of health promotion - to address the joint committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: COM (2012) 369 is a proposal for a EU regulation on the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use and provides for the repeal of Directive 2001/20/EC. The number of applications to conduct clinical trials in Europe fell by 25% between 2007 and 2011. The costs of conducting such trials also increased in the same period. The clinical trials Directive 2001/20/EC has been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members and delegates and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting, as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment. We are continuing our meetings on the issue of tackling childhood obesity. There were a number of meetings on the topic before the summer recess and since we have come back which will culminate in the...