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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: The meeting has been arranged for 22 October.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: Can we leave that until we deal with correspondence and deal with the minutes now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: I will bring in Deputy O'Sullivan on the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: Does Deputy Byrne not believe me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: We will do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: This is probably the largest group of witnesses I have ever seen and it is great to see so many people. We are discussing a very important subject, which is the outbreak of the ebola virus affecting countries in west Africa. To consider this issue the joint committee has requested that representatives from four bodies meet us this afternoon. I extend the sympathy of the Oireachtas Joint...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: I thank Ms Ingoldsby. The committee visited Freetown two years ago and met Ms O'Reilly there, so we wish the team there every success in its difficult mission. We also wish well Mr. Sean Hoy, our ambassador in Abuja, who accompanied us to Ghana last year. I welcome Ms Jane-Ann McKenna from MSF and Ms Sinead O'Reilly from GOAL, who are accompanying our two key witnesses today. Our two key...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: I thank Dr. Fitzpatrick and Mr. Barry Andrews for their presentations, which paint a disturbing and graphic picture of what they witnessed during their time spent at the MSF centres. It is hard not to be moved and motivated by what we have heard. The story of the mother arriving with her four children and her dying within a week or so speaks volumes, as does the description of the death of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: Perhaps Dr. Bonner would also respond to that question when replying to members' questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: I have to allow other members to speak, because a number of witnesses wish to respond on the various areas mentioned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: There the witnesses have it. Members asked a lot of interesting and important questions. There is one question Mr. Andrews might answer for me as well. We have not spoken about the government response in these areas where there is a department of health. I hear stories of ministers leaving the country and that there is no plan put in place by government officials. Maybe Dr. Fitzpatrick...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: I now will bring in our two doctors, Dr. Fitzpatrick and Dr. Bonner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: I thank Dr. Fitzpatrick. Does Dr. Bonner wish to contribute on some of the questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: To add to what Deputies Byrne and Durkan have said regarding government awareness and plans the Nigerian Government has in place, Dr. Fitzpatrick spoke about people all having mobile phones. On visits we have made to Africa, we have seen that everybody has a mobile phone. No matter where one goes, in the most isolated regions of Africa, everybody has a mobile phone or maybe two. Has any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: Is there resentment towards NGOs? Tribes have all these customs that foreigners are spreading it and that they did not have it until the foreigners arrived.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: Was the vaccine used on the American doctor successful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: I thank Ms Brennan. It would be remiss of me not to ask Ms McKenna to say a few words. I do not want her to be the odd one out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: I thank all the witnesses who attended this afternoon. We have had a very good meeting and achieved a lot. I thank Mr. Barry Andrews of GOAL for first contacting us about coming here and I thank Ms McKenna from Médecins Sans Frontières for its contact as well. Various other NGOs work in the region, and we cannot forget them. I refer to Plan Ireland, Concern and all the other...

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: The contributions we have just heard show the spirit of two good punters and I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. It is great to see the Opposition has such interest in this important Bill as the other side of the Chamber is empty. The Bill provides for the merger of the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority into a single authority, Sport...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Sep 2014)

Pat Breen: 206. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical card application will issue in respect a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36286/14]