Results 6,881-6,900 of 24,338 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Could I ask Mr. Bohan who is going to the workshop? Would it be appropriate for members of this committee to be invited?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: If Mr. Bohan can forward the details to our clerk, I would appreciate it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses for attending and making their presentations. Dr. Kasey Treadwell Shine is sitting at the back and I should have asked her to come to the front, for which I apologise.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (26 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations regarding the detention and treatment of Bahraini nationals by their own Government, in particular the treatment of some Bahraini doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14900/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Official Engagements (26 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his visit to Japan and Korea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15274/13]
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In the light of the fact that three council workers were suspended for filling a pothole, does the Government have any plan to overhaul the health and safety legislation or change working conditions for council staff? In the case in question, the three workers were on their way back to their depot when they stopped to fill potholes in the common good.
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The workers in question were suspended because they were in breach of health and safety rules.
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a serious issue.
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Are there plans to overhaul health and safety regulations and the Health and Safety Authority?
- Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind the Deputies opposite that this Government will last its full term. We will not be like the Green Party and Fianna Fáil and we will not flake on the Irish people. If I was to arrive in this Chamber from another planet and read Deputy Michael McGrath's motion, I would have said "fair play" because everything to which he aspires is what the Government is doing and everything he...
- Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I did not interrupt the Deputy when he spoke last night. If I was him, I would be embarrassed by Fianna Fáil's record in government. This is not about punishing people. It is about making sure we have people living in their own homes and that banks behave responsibly and work with and not become disengaged from ordinary people who, in the majority of cases, are trying to make an...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services Provision (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will publish the consultation paper on the proposed aviation policy; the main themes that this policy will cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15273/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Travel (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his visit to Atlanta, New Orleans and Washington; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15420/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The committee is now in public session. We will consider COM (2012) 541, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on in vitro diagnostic medical devices and COM (2012) 542, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on medical devices, amending Directive 2001/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Mr. Fintan Hourihan, chief executive of the Irish Dental Association, Ms Clare Dowling, employment and communications officer of the Irish Dental Association, Dr. Andrew Bolas, president of the Irish Dental Association, and Dr. Peter Gannon, chairman of the general practitioners' committee of the Irish Dental Association. I thank them for coming to our meeting this morning. We are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Hourihan for the presentation. We hope that members of the association will feel free to interact with committee members. In the absence of Fianna Fáil Deputies, Deputy Ó Caoláin can take the lead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputies Ó Caoláin and Mitchell O'Connor must go to the Dáil. Mr. Hourihan may answer their questions first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Is there a reason they are not availing of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Aware of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: How would Mr. Hourihan envisage the voucher system operating?