Results 11,321-11,340 of 24,340 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 11 to 19, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: You may speak at the end. A number of amendments to the section have not yet been moved.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Bill 2014: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 29 to 35, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Message to Dáil (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs has completed its consideration of the Children First Bill 2014 and has made amendments thereto.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: This is the select sub-committee so the Minister may proceed.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I was going to ask Deputies Troy and McLellan to respond but, technically, it is not a matter for the select sub-committee. Given the fact that this is an extremely serious child protection issue, it is important that we ask Tusla to come before the joint committee next Thursday if possible and that the Minister brief the Opposition and possibly forward the information he has to the...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Have they taken appropriate action thus far?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is it confined to that area?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Several hundred cases?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Referrals?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It is not really the committee's business this morning.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Minister to ensure that the joint committee be apprised of the situation. While it is not the select committee's business, the joint committee is to hear from Tusla on Thursday morning next. The select committee is not empowered this morning to discuss or make decisions on this issue. Given what was involved, I allowed the Minister to make his statement. It is a matter of child...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I have asked him to do that.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Minister to apprise the Opposition spokespersons as well.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Committee (30 Apr 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister and all of the officials, Ms Michele Clarke, Ms Marie Kennedy, Ms Dolores Moran and Ms Moira Griffin, for their work, assistance and co-operation this morning. I thank them for being here.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (7 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there was a 4% annual withdrawal limit applied to Approved Minimum Retirement Funds; if there is flexibility in this restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17903/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: This session is a meeting with representatives from Tusla, including Mr. Gordon Jeyes, chief executive officer Mr. Fred McBride, chief operations officer, and Mr. Brian Lee, director of quality assurance, who I thank for attending at such short notice. The purpose of this meeting is to receive an update from Mr. Jeyes on a very serious matter raised last week at the Select Sub-committee on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I note for Senators that there is a division in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Jeyes. I have received a copy of the IMPACT letter to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs which states that it was not correct to say the files were new. It claims that they were in the system for several years and were revised and reviewed. I am sure Mr. Jeyes has seen the IMPACT letter and he might refer to that in his reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's point is relevant and I spoke to Mr. Jeyes about it prior to the meeting.