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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is the witness happy that the negotiations on the new agency are progressing and that the relevant personnel and resources are moving in tandem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the delegates but there is a vote in the House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the witnesses for the delay. It is now just a two-hand reel with Deputy Ó Caoláin and myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Carroll.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: We have covered nearly all of the questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I have a question in the context of this week's newspaper reports on dietary requirements and the procurement of foods within the Health Service Executive and hospitals. Having worked in a hospital as a porter while going to college, I am aware of the dietary requirements and the types of meals being provided. Are we driven by cost, nutrition or a combination of both? Apart from patients'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. O'Brien for the clarification. If one were to read the article and listen to the commentary, one would be of the view that all one is getting is processed food and undesirable dietary elements.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Did Senator Colm Burke want to make a comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank everybody most sincerely for being here. I want to put on record, at a time when we hear a great deal of criticism in the House, on the public airwaves and in commentaries, that the staff of the HSE are always courteous to me, as Chairman and as a Member of the Oireachtas, and everybody here. They are efficient in their replies. We might not like the replies on occasions but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the members for their patience.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (12 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: At the first session of Thursday's meeting, at 9.30 a.m., we will consider the agenda and minutes from the preceding meeting, in addition to correspondence and the work programme. There will be two parts to the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (12 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: That is okay. I thank the members for attending at 5 p.m. this afternoon. I acknowledge it is an awful time for them. We are present to address the tackling of childhood poverty. I thank the Vice Chairman, Deputy Ciara Conway, for requesting that we include this very important topic in our work programme, and also for agreeing to act as rapporteur on the topic. Ultimately, she will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (12 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Wolfe. I welcome Ms Suzanne Connolly and Ms June Tinsley from Barnardos. Ms Tinsley will speak first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (12 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Tinsley and Ms Connolly for their presentations. I welcome Mr. Stuart Duffin, director of policy and programmes at One Family.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (12 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank all the witnesses for their excellent and challenging presentations to the joint committee. The first questioner will be Deputy Troy, who has five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (12 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I now call the Vice Chairman, Deputy Conway. In her absence we complimented her on raising the matter before us as one of the issues for discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (12 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: We said she would act as rapporteur and bring a report back to the committee. I again thank the Deputy for bringing the issue to our attention.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (12 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Could Mr. Duffin expand on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (12 Mar 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, Deputy Ó Caoláin, just to point out that we have asked for that paper to be updated.