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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 34. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make EpiPens more widely available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2344/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (21 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 51. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the timeframe for the universal health/patient identifier; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2345/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I apologise for the late start. This meeting must conclude at 11.20 a.m. because we have a long-standing appointment with the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety which will begin at 11.30 a.m. and we must allow for the changing of equipment. I remind members and those in the Visitors Gallery that mobile phones should be turned off as they interfere with the broadcasting of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Breen. I invite Mr. Simon Kayll, chief executive of the Medical Protection Society, to make his opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I call on Mr. Martin Varley of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA, to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Varley and I welcome Professor Trevor Duffy, the president of the Irish Medical Organisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I now call the other members of the committee starting with Senator Burke, followed by Deputy Mitchell O'Connor and Senator Crown.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator, with respect, if you had been here for the beginning of the meeting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: -----you would have heard that we have to finish by 11.20 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator, you might just show respect to other members of the committee and stop grandstanding. We have been here since 9.30 a.m. The point I was making is that the Senator has just one minute remaining in his contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Go raibh maith agat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: For the record, the Senator spoke for over seven minutes. I remind the witnesses that we must finish by 11.20 a.m. in order to facilitate the second part of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to this again if we have time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Sorry. If the Senator does not mind, I will chair the meeting. I have called Mr. Breen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank all the witnesses for attending. This is the first of a set of hearings and we will resume again on Tuesday next. We will suspend until 11.30 a.m. when we will meet the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. Again, I thank everyone for attending and for their co-operation and participation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members to have their mobile telephones switched off and also that a vote on a Bill is due to take place. I formally welcome the new European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Dr. Vytenis Andriukaitis. He is very welcome and I extend to him a ceád míle fáilte. I also welcome his officials who have accompanied him this morning. We are extremely privileged...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: May I stop Dr. Andriukaitis for one moment? As he will be aware, parliamentary democracy continues. There is a vote in the Chamber. With the permission of the meeting, given the importance of the visit, if Deputy Ó Caoláin and I would be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Ó Caoláin and I might be paired. If members from the other parties want to go to vote, Deputy Ó Caoláin will pair and the Senators will remain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Neither have I. I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Commissioner Andriukaitis for his very challenging presentation of priorities for the year. Our committee is very proactive in dealing with many of the issues he raised, and we have a broad remit extending from the health area to children's rights and the care of the elderly. At the end of our meeting I will present to the Commissioner a copy of a related report dealing with the...