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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Will it 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: It is important to have the publication released at our meeting rather than somewhere else but I understand that it is a matter for the HSE. However, I shall make the point that as the committee-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes. We have also received correspondence from Mr. Tony O'Brien which he sent to us in January. I hope that this committee will be the forum chosen to present the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: We are the committee responsible for health and, therefore, we would be the appropriate committee for it. That is my opinion as Chairman. We will formally write to the HSE this morning on that basis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Vice Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. O'Brien. Senators Colm Burke and Crown had to attend a vote in the Seanad but have now returned. I call Senator Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Finally, I call Senator John Crown.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Representatives of our medical schools are not here to defend themselves.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I know but I am making that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not preventing the Senator at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: It clearly is but by one side.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister of State but, in terms of having great difficulty getting to the table, he has made a number of requests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Has he received replies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: It is important that governance be tightened, controlled and managed across the board and that everyone have the appropriate status. I thank everyone for attending. I remind members of the committee that we are meeting at 12.30 p.m. on the plinth. If the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and the Minister of State, Deputy White, wish to join us there for the presentation of the report, they may do...
- Order of Business (8 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Bertie's back.
- Order of Business (8 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: The Constitutional Convention concluded its work at the end of March and I am sure Members will join me in complimenting it on its work. In the light of the number of recommendations made by it to the Government, when is it proposed that the House will debate the work of the convention? When is it proposed that the Government will reply to its findings?
- Order of Business (8 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy had Bertie Ahern back today. He must be thrilled.
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Finian McGrath is sharing time with Deputy Pringle.
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Deputy Stanton. The Deputy is speaking in his capacity as Chair of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. As the Minister stated, Deputy Stanton, as Chair of that committee, with his colleagues, held pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill. This was a new provision introduced in November last. I recognise Deputy Stanton as Chair of that committee.
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the opportunity to speak today and commend the Minister on another reforming legislative item. The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, an agency for the Irish Jesuit Province, publishes a very interesting magazine and while reading it over the last couple of days, I was greatly struck by a quote from Pope Francis's evangelical letter, Evangelii Gaudiam, the joy of the gospel. In...