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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: It is just over three, not four.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Minister, would you address------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Perhaps the system should retain information because many of us in this room have heard from people with serious illnesses, be they transplant patients or people with chronic illness or cancer, and families of children with Down's syndrome who have had medical cards removed or up for review and have been questioned. I would make the point that the system should have that capacity. To be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: If I might interrupt Mr. Mulvany for a second, we have just received a note from the broadcasting unit. If mobile telephones or iPads are on, members should switch them off, as they seem to be interfering with the broadcasting equipment. I ask members to co-operate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Do not shoot the messenger. I am only relaying a message, as requested.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: No. I will bring in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Nine members are waiting, to be fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I will allow the Senator back in at the end. Other members wish to speak and Mr. O’Brien must still answer some questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I will invite him to contribute after Mr. O’Brien.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry, but there is a vote in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: With regard to the question Deputy Conway asked, we received correspondence from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in February which expressed its concern about the staffing situation in our hospitals. It made the point that there is a deficiency in the staffing number and it is concerned about staffing levels and the safety of maternity services. That was stated in a letter to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: With regard to sections 38 and 39 and governance in St. Vincent's, Mr. O'Brien is right that it is not about the individual personality or the person but the governance. I asked him earlier about the business plan. If an organisation submits a business plan to the HSE what is the criteria for its acceptance? If Mr. O'Brien is referring to compliance with Government policy or pay policy,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: What does Mr. O'Brien mean by merit? I ask him to give an example of merit in terms of an organisation making a business case. For me, it means receiving X when Y is the standard amount.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Will the report of the review panel and its workings be published on 14 April?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Does the HSE intend to publish its report at a press conference or at a separate meeting of the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Does that include this committee?