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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, it is not only Mr. Hennessy who needs to give a response. Mr. Breslin also needs to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is it not fundamentally wrong that a group of people, no matter what the issue, have to take to the airwaves to highlight the fact that they are deprived of something after a clinical decision has been taken to prescribe or recommend a particular product?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will take the answer to that in the next batch of replies, because some people have been waiting all morning to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, and thank him for making a super effort to be here. We appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind Deputies that on 10 March we are holding pre-legislative scrutiny hearings on that Bill.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator must stick to the schedule.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Chairman is fair to everybody. I will let the Senator finish on this point because he feels victimised, but the Chair is fair to everybody, in fairness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: For the record, non-spokespeople had an average of three minutes to speak while Senator Crown got six. He can pick his stilts through the timekeeping on that one. I welcome Senator Thomas Byrne who is joining us in place of Senator Marc MacSharry. While he has not formally joined us, he is very welcome to the committee. We look forward to working with him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair to Mr. O'Brien, he said in his presentation that he was not aiming his remarks there. He said that the adjectives he used were aimed at the drugs companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: There is significant interference with the Minister's microphone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does the Minister have a pacemaker?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I have a question on organ donation. Like Senator Burke, I know a number of people in Cork who are concerned about the issue of organ donation. I would also like a reply to the question on the recruitment of consultants at Beaumont Hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We should compliment Professor David Hickey, who has been a pioneer. We thank him and wish him well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The committee has published a number of reports on organ donation, concussion in sport, deep-brain stimulation and palliative or end-of-life care. We might consider meeting in private session to discuss how we can advance all of those reports. We seem to have got little or no feedback on some of them. In the case of end-of-life care, it has been disappointing to the members. We might...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We have been in session since 9.30 a.m. I will give the Deputy two minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, the practice in the committee has been that Deputy Keaveney's party colleagues on the committee have the facility of putting in questions in advance to the HSE and the Minister. They are Deputy Billy Kelleher, Deputy Robert Troy and Senator Marc MacSharry, who has been replaced by Senator Thomas Byrne. To be fair to Mr. O'Brien, he may not have answers now to the questions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not sure either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Before we finish, I thank the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, Mr. Jim Breslin and his team from the Department of Health and Mr. Tony O'Brien and his team from the HSE. I thank Mr. Ray Mitchell for co-ordinating the meeting today. I thank everyone warmly for participating. The Select Sub-Committee on Health will meet on Tuesday, 17 February 2015 to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) IAG (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Given Mr. Walsh’s previous incarnation as chief executive officer of Aer Lingus and having spoken earlier with warmth and affinity for Cork Airport, in growing the business out of that airport, which is still the second busiest airport in the State even though it has had a 36% decline in passenger numbers, what suggestions would the acquisition and merger bring to Cork to increase its...