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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Mental Health Services: Mental Health Reform (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. McDaid and Ms Mitchell for their attendance. I thank the members for their participation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind Members, witnesses and people in the Visitors Gallery that mobile phones must be switched off because they interfere with the broadcasting of proceedings and with the work of members of staff, which is unfair to them. I formally thank and pay tribute to our outgoing clerk, Mr. Paul Kelly, who is leaving us to go to a different section of the Houses of the Oireachtas. He has been a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: He gave the Senator bad habits.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: We will talk to Paul after the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: The main business of the meeting is the quarterly meeting with the Minister for Health, the Department of Health and the HSE. I welcome to their first quarterly meeting the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, and Mr. Jim Breslin, the new Secretary General at the Department of Health. I also welcome the officials of the HSE who are led by their director general, Mr. Tony O'Brien. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I call the Minister for Health to make his opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the Minister. For the benefit of Senators, there is a vote in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister. I acknowledge Mr. Fergal Goodman on his appointment. Before I call Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the Health Service Executive, I congratulate Mr. Barry O'Brien on his new appointment and thank him for his courtesy to the committee and the Oireachtas. I wish him well. In his opening remarks I ask Mr. Tony O'Brien to refer to the HSE report on Positive Action....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: The committee members should consider asking Mr. O'Brien to refer the report to us as the relevant line committee that deals with the Department of Health and the HSE. This is the appropriate committee to discuss the report. I will call on the committee to discuss the matter afterwards. Deputy Kelleher has seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin who has seven minutes in which to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: For the record, the Minister spoke for six minutes, while Mr. O'Brien spoke for 12.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: For the record, it was agreed by the committee at the beginning of the current Dáil that each member would have seven minutes of speaking time at each quarterly meeting. We can revise the requirements for all meetings at another date if members wish. As Deputy Clare Daly is the only member from the Technical Group in attendance, I will allow her to jump in before Senator Jillian van...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry to interrupt the Deputy, but I wish to advise Senators that there is a vote in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I will now call on the Minister and Mr. O'Brien to respond in the appropriate order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Just a moment. There is a vote due in the Dáil at 1 o'clock and Mr. O'Brien has to leave us at 2 p.m. I ask members of the committee to acknowledge that in their contributions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: In fairness, there are six other members waiting for questions to be answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: There is one Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: We are not playing to the gallery in the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy spoke for eight minutes.