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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. O'Brien want to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I raise a point on which I do not want an answer today but ask that the witnesses might revert to me on it. It concerns extra accommodation charges being imposed on University College Cork medical students. I accept it is not necessarily their job but they might examine it in a different way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I did say I did not want an answer on it today. Deputies McLellan, Fitzpatrick, Troy, Flanagan, McConalogue-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: My apologies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I am glad the Deputy is back chairing the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: No, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: For the Deputy's own sake, she should be careful of the facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Sorry Deputy, what question number is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: That issue pertains more to children's services.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: As this discussion is on the questions members have submitted, I cannot allow that question to be asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I am being fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, the last remark was unnecessary and we do not carry on in that way in this committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I will not let you take the last question because it is not relevant. To be fair, the quarterly meeting is on the questions submitted by members and as the Deputy is aware, I allow some latitude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: No, the Deputy is over his time. Deputies Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and McConalogue are not members of the joint committee but they wish to ask questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To get an answer, it does. The Deputy should be aware he may not be able to get an answer to a specific question right now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: She did not produce a report. This committee produced a report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: For the purposes of clarification, when this committee was formed, it was the initial topic of deliberation that we took on as a priority. We produced a report, which we gave to the former Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall. The Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, will respond to Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a priority, as are drugs. The committee shares Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan's concerns regarding alcohol and I thank him for raising it this morning. I call Deputy McConalogue, the last man standing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Deputy McConalogue and welcome him back to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will not try to have it now either.