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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Let me be very clear, Mr. Dolan. You are brought before the committee within specific parameters to talk about your agency. This is the first time the committee is doing this and we are interested to hear what you say. Can you give us a broad picture of the Disability Federation of Ireland? To begin with, how many disability groups are there in the country, and what percentage of them are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I call Dr. McDaid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To clarify, whatever changes are being made to the home help hours, it is not a result of the Croke Park agreement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We are evaluated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We can generalise the commentary and I understand the Deputy's sentiment but members should move towards the submissions. I am asking him to be a bit more focused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We had to struggle for a quorum because the Deputy was not here this morning. I will now ask for brief summaries and I will then conclude. I call on Mr. Dunne to make his concluding comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: No, you got off on the wrong foot, sir.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Dunne, Dr. McDaid and Mr. Dolan. This is the first time the committee has engaged in this process. We will evaluate the merits later. It should not be a case of reading the pre-submission. Members have the responsibility to have read the submissions There are two issues. There is an examination that must take place in the disability sector with regard to advocacy and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I welcome Ms Catherine Joyce, head of advocacy at Barnardos; Professor Sean Tierney, former president of the Irish Medical Organisation; Mr. Maurice O'Connell of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland; and Mr. John-Mark McCafferty from the Society of St.Vincent de Paul. I thank the delegates for accepting the invitation to come before the joint committee this morning. The witnesses may have got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Is it proposed that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul would host such programmes or that it would identify locations for those programmes to be run?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I will direct my next question to the Irish Medical Organisation. Given events in recent weeks, one of the proposals in the IMO submission relates to the level of suicide in our society and it proposes suicide intervention teams should be provided in hospitals on a 24 hours a day, seven days a week basis. I am from Cork city. Is it proposed that the Mercy Hospital and Cork University...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Without sounding facetious, would it be better to have suicide intervention teams based in the community?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Is this a question to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul representatives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Does its pre-budget submission refer to the household charge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: No, that is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I encourage committee members to broaden their questions to other witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: My questions are for the IMO, Barnardos and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland. What are the cost implications of the referendum being passed with regard to agencies with a child focus? I was in Kinsale earlier this year at the launch of a community-based programme to deal with dementia in the community. What are the views of Mr. O'Connell on this cost saving measure, which is keeping...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: This is not medication; it is a food supplement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We can debate the medicinal purposes of omega 3, food supplements and vitamins but what strikes me is the price variation between something available for €2 in the local supermarket and the cost when it is prescribed through pharmacies. The cost difference is thousands of percent and someone is making money out of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I would be grateful if the IMO could revert to the committee on it if Professor Tierney cannot answer the question this morning.