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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Are the health insurers being fair in the way they deal with their customers? Mr. Sloyan probably heard them give us their own story this morning. They are looking at it through their own prism. Their focus is to make revenue for themselves. While that is their prerogative, are they playing fair with everybody?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Has the HIA carried out any study on the impact further levy increases will have on falling numbers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: We have had that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I want Senator Burke's question to be answered, to be fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, Senator Burke asked a question. Dr. Lynch, on Senator Burke's point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: That is what is driving the cost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The purpose of the conversation that we have had in this meeting is to know what we are doing to bring down the bill for the person who is sitting down tonight with a renewal notice and sees a spike in the price. Let us get back to brass tacks. We can talk about the consultative forum and engagement with stakeholders and driving down costs, but the bottom line for the person looking at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: With all due respect, when shopping around, no matter which company one goes to, they are all going up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: One needs a week and a half to sit down and go through a tome of information. Long ago, when we pressed button B in public payphones, we got our money back. Now it is a question of reading the small print to the effect that if I get this, do I lose this and so on. Why can we not make it simple for people? We hear this every week in our offices from people who want health insurance and are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I really want to get on to this point because this drives me berserk. There has been a 56% increase in the cost of private health insurance in the past five years. I have not been in hospital once in those five years, yet my premium has gone through the roof. There will be people at home tonight struggling to make a decision about health insurance. Someone telephoned me last night because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I accept that. Is the auditing system robust and strenuous in respect of those issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Are you confident that we have the infrastructure to deal with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Are you confident that we have the competency available to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you. Mr. Sloyan, have you any further remarks? Do you have any thoughts on the study on the impact of the further increases in the health levy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses most sincerely for their patience this afternoon and I apologise again for the delay. I thank each and every one of you for being here. I thank the members of the committee and those in the Public Gallery.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Ombudsman (26 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Financial Services Ombudsman was not in a position to investigate the case referred to him by a person (details supplied) in County Cork in view of the difficulty that had not arisen until the maturity date of the policy and that it was only at the date of maturity that the difficulty became known to the policy holder; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: United Nations Environmental Programme (26 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the 27th session of the UN Environment Programme Governing Council recently held in Kenya; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9676/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Employee Code of Conduct (26 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a moratorium on former employees of local authority planning departments precluding such former employees from providing planning consultancy services for a period of time after their employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9943/13]

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Government for holding this debate. It is extraordinary that we are engaging in such a debate in the modern, 21st century Ireland. I had the benefit of spending time in a seminary and I lived in a world where pastoral care and people's needs are paramount. I am glad, therefore, that the cruelty and inhumanity of Irish society in the past has thankfully been laid bare, not just...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for bringing this important Bill before the House. I was not going to engage in a political rant against the Member opposite but we all know that the party which Deputy Mattie McGrath supported for most of its 14 years in Government discredited FÁS. I regret that because I agree with him about the great people who worked in FÁS and delivered a...