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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Mr. O'Higgins?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Would it be preferable to have a voluntary code at the beginning?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Mr. Cantillon cited the example of Dr. McDonald at the University of Illinois, which appears from the research I have read to have worked reasonably satisfactorily.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask Mr. Boylan to be careful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask Mr. Boylan to be careful when referring to cases that could become identifiable in the public domain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I would like to ask two questions before I hand back to our panel. Surely the delays in the conducting of claims will add to the costs. How can we expedite the process of admitting liability and ascertaining quantum? If we focus excessively on the costs, are we missing the key issues of how to reduce the incidence of medical negligence and how to put in place measures to reduce the...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to echo the words of the former Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Charlie Flanagan, who spoke about this issue in June 2014. He referred to the shame that society made women and children in mother and baby homes feel. His was an important speech. For many of the women, the sense of shame has lasted a lifetime. Some of the women are friends of mine, and some are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Our meeting this morning is to hear from, and discuss with, Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, special rapporteur on child protection, his seventh report on child protection, which was published at the end of last November. I welcome Dr. Shannon to the meeting this morning and thank him in advance for his presentation and most sincerely for his work, his advocacy on behalf of children, and for being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: We do not have that recommendation yet. That has not yet been published.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I do not think you can ask that question because the report has not been published.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: The report has not been published, so it is conjecture.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind Senator van Turnhout that we are discussing the seventh report of the special rapporteur on child protection.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I will take Senator Colm Burke and Deputies Catherine Byrne and Dan Neville together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: We vary it depending on the numbers who want to indicate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: We vary it depending on the number of witnesses we have. Dr. Shannon is on his own so we do not have a series of people who have to reply to us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Did Deputy Troy indicate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Very briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: No, I am not going into a side bar now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Deputy. For the record, the Chair does not silence anybody. Deputy Troy got seven minutes to make his opening remarks. I now call on Dr. Shannon.