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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (25 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 26. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his plans to issue the first individual health identifiers and increase investment in information and communications technology and in eHealth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8009/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 42. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the reconfiguration of residential services, as recommended in the Health Service Excutive report, Time to Move on from Congregated Settings - A Strategy for Community Inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8008/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Interaction of GAA with the Diaspora: GAA (25 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I apologise for missing the presentation. I have a vested interest in this issue. I am a member of Cumann Lúthchleas Gael and had the privilege of being on the first comhairle programme with Liam O'Neill, an t-uachtarán. I compliment and pay tribute to Liam O'Neill as he comes to the end of his term of office as uachtarán on the way in which he has quietly and effectively...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Interaction of GAA with the Diaspora: GAA (25 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Nothing is won in February.

Climate Change and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Fitzmaurice has possession. Thank you.

Climate Change and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputies Ruth Coppinger and Paul Murphy wish to share time. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Message from Seanad (26 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Seanad Éireann has passed the Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014 without amendment.

Topical Issue Debate (26 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: The first Topical Issue is in the name of Deputy Martin Ferris.

Topical Issue Debate (26 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you. We will proceed to the second Topical Issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of National Rare Disease Plan 2014-18: Discussion (26 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome everybody to the meeting. I remind members, witnesses and the people seated in the Gallery that mobile phones should be switched off or left in airplane mode as they interfere with the broadcasting of proceedings. Failure to do so may mean a presentation is not covered further afield which would do everyone a disservice but we must also be fair to the staff who must wear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of National Rare Disease Plan 2014-18: Discussion (26 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Devlin and call on Mr. Tony Heffernan to make his opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of National Rare Disease Plan 2014-18: Discussion (26 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: We were briefed by the patient groups involved in the rare diseases task force and they stated there had been virtually no effort to inform or consult patient groups. Is that the case and can it be changed? Can they be accommodated and included?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of National Rare Disease Plan 2014-18: Discussion (26 Feb 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: That is a good point to end on. We might ask that the patient groups involved in the rare disease task force might update the briefing to include the fact that the HSE has made funding available, as Ms Byrne commented, although it is not mentioned in the service plan - just to be fair in terms of outlining both the positives and the negatives. I thank the group for its excellent...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy McGrath is scaremongering.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: An bhfuil a fhios ag an Taoiseach cathain a bheidh dréachtpholasaí eitlíochta foilsithe? An mbeidh seans againn an polasaí sin, atá i ndréachtfhormáid anois, a phlé sa Teach seo?

Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: Is ea. The national aviation draft policy.

Family Home Mortgage Settlement Arrangement Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Mar 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: While I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, we cannot give people false hope. We must encourage engagement both on the part of the banks and people who are in mortgage distress. Banks should be mindful that the importance of the family home cannot be underestimated. It is not a question of bricks and mortar or the number of bedrooms; it is about a lifetime of memories and a key...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (4 Mar 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider sanctioning an increase in wages and/or restoring the rent allowance payment for the recent intake of trainee members of An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9593/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Mar 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to introduce a vaccine for meningitis B onto the national immunisation scheme; the contact that has been made between his Department, the Health Service Executive and the National Immunisation Advisory Council on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9594/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract (4 Mar 2015)

Jerry Buttimer: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the policy with regard to hospital consultants seeing private patients at public clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9598/15]