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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Should the IMB have a role in respect of price setting? There are various attitudes to that internationally. Typically, pricing is not within the remit of the medicines regulator. The regulator is asked to focus on the safety of patients and the quality of the medicines. I understand two equivalent agencies in Europe have a role in this area: the agency in Denmark and the agency in Italy,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Will the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill tackle the issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: It is all about profit and money as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: It is expensive for families. Is it the case that, as a nation, we are over-prescribing, and that GPs in some cases are handing out prescriptions to appease people? Is that a fair comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: It is more than a perception. I refer in particular to reports about medication prescribed in the mental health area. My view is that we are over-prescribing. I might be wrong but that is my perception.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: By the same token, we as non-professional people who go to our GP must change our mentality on getting a prescription for X, Y or Z. Deputy Kelleher’s point is valid in that if one goes into one’s pharmacist they should be able to advise on what one should do even for something as simple as a head cold, rather than having to get a prescription to take Augmentin or whatever else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: On the issue of tanning injections and the dangers highlighted by the Irish Medicines Board under its remit, particularly for young children I refer to the parents who are being irresponsible has the board been robust in its campaigns warning of the dangers of using these products, particularly if they are bought on the Internet? Those products, and other counterfeit products, can be bought...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Is it a small number of people?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Has the board considered using social media as a means of interacting with people on the use of medicines and on the topic we are discussing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: On the basis of Mr. O'Mahony's comments and his presentation about people self-medicating or self-diagnosing and seeking information, I suggest that he examine that as a new way of interacting with people. His presentation and this discussion have been very worthwhile but it has a limited audience. I hope we can broaden that through Mr. O'Mahony's ability to communicate with people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: If there are no other questions or comments, I thank Mr. O'Mahony and Ms O'Connor. I forgot to mention that Mr. Nigel Fox, communications information manager, and Ms Ger McCarthy, account director, are in the Gallery. I thank the witnesses for attending. I remind members that we are adjourned until 9.30 a.m. next Thursday morning.
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The heckling is getting to me.
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: In the city of Cork, many people cannot obtain insurance due to flooding or subsidence-----
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Has the Government a plan? I wrote to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on this issue.
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I am being heckled but it is a serious matter. There are people in the city of Cork who do not have house insurance or whose house insurance has increased by 150%-----
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Can the Government, through European or other means, introduce legislation regarding that point?
- Addiction Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (2 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the assessment of catchments and streams and review of culverts in the Douglas area of County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41996/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications (2 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the 1980 EU Insolvency Directive is applicable to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41357/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications (2 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if the 1980 EU Insolvency Directive is applicable to the person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41368/12]