Results 9,021-9,040 of 24,340 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 771. To ask the Minister for Health if he will furnish details on expenditure on mental health, including A Vision for Change, in 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4298/14]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister and apologise for being late. I was speaking on a Topical Issue in the Dáil and I thank Deputy Neville for taking the chair. I call Deputy Kelleher for his opening statement.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I call Deputy McLellan who is substituting for Deputy Ó Caoláin.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, Deputy, is there a phone or an iPad near a microphone that is causing interference?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: They do, yes.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I am not sure. Aeroplane mode I am told. Sorry, Deputy McLellan.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Neville also indicated he wanted to speak.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I will go through the Estimate. Are there any comments or questions on Vote 38 - Office of the Minister for Health, Administrative subheads 1 to 8, on subhead A.1 - salaries, wages and allowances? Are there any comments or questions on subhead A.2 - travel and subsistence? Are there any comments or questions on subhead A.3 - training and development and incidental expenses? Are there any...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Kelleher will have to leave to go to the Dáil to speak on an issue as he has to cover for a colleague. The Minister might like to reply.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: As recently as yesterday I met a group of GPs from a disadvantaged area in Cork. They are telling me a different story in that they do not have a sustainable private practice but a strong GMS practice. They said they were contemplating emigrating. They are a young couple.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: We know how the Minister got on there.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Kelleher must leave the meeting.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Will Deputy Seamus Healy supply the details later?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Healy can give the Minister the details after the meeting.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: We will return to Vote 38: grants, subheads B1, B2, B3; other services, subheads C, D, E1, E2, E3, E4, F1, F2, F3, F4, G, H, I. We turn to Vote 39, a Vote of the HSE. We will deal with the corporate administrative subheads 1 to 8. Do members wish to raise issues on subhead A1, A2, A3, HSE regions, subhead B1, HSE Mid Leinster; subhead B2, HSE Dublin north east; subhead B3, HSE south?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Subhead B4, HSE west. On subhead B5, grants to other health bodies including voluntary and joint board hospitals, may I ask the Minister when the HSE hopes to finish its investigation into sections 38 and 39 organisations?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: We now come to other services, subheads B6, B7, B8, B9, B10, B11. Under the care programme, we have subheads C1, C2, C3. Under capital services, we have subhead D1, D2, D3, D4, subhead E. Does the Minister wish to make a final comment?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister and his officials for their courtesy and their assistance to the committee. I apologise for the delay in starting the proceeding due to the vote in the Dáil.