Results 12,081-12,100 of 24,340 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does that not happen already in the allocation of resources to the HSE by the Minister? Surely there is accountability in that respect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Would it not be fair to say that, arising from what happened in Portlaoise, the Minister has acted? We have seen that report implemented and used as a roadmap for implementation following what happened in Portlaoise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Fitzpatrick for attending, for the contribution he made and for his ongoing commitment.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Expenditure (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken to support primary education; if she will continue to support and advance primary education through the allocation of additional resources, as part of budget 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34090/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roadworthiness Testing (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 756. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a customer service charter in place for commercial vehicle testing; if not, his plans to liaise with the Road Safety Authority with a view to developing such a policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34000/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roadworthiness Testing (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 757. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not received a response to queries directed to the Road Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34001/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, the director general of the Health Service Executive, HSE, Mr. Tony O'Brien, and his staff in the HSE, Ms Laverne McGuinness, Mr. John Hennessy, Mr. Liam Woods, Mr. Pat Healy, Ms Anne O'Connor and Dr. Colm Henry to our quarterly meeting. I thank Mr. Ray Mitchell...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Before we commence I wish to advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and they continue to so do, they are entitled thereafter only to a qualified privilege in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State. I invite Mr. Tony O'Brien to make his opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry to interrupt. There is a vote in the Dáil. Perhaps we could suspend after Mr. O'Brien has concluded his opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I propose that we suspend until after the vote. Go raibh maith agat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Before we begin I apologise to assistant secretaries at the Department of Health and Children, Ms Tracey Conroy and Ms Frances Spillane, as I did not welcome them in my opening remarks. They are both very welcome here this afternoon. I apologise to our witnesses also for suspending the sitting of the committee for the vote in the Dáil. The workings of parliamentary democracy must be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Deputy who got more than the allocated time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: True.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. Daly has written to us as part of our communication for next Thursday's meeting. He said that the numbers awaiting registration in nursing homes could also continue to rise. They raised the issue with the HSE clinical adaptation programme and asked about the call centre not being established yet. Perhaps it is for the HSE to answer that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: What about the question on deaf-blindness?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Perhaps the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, will respond to Deputy Mitchell O'Connor's question on deaf-blindness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I interrupt the Minister of State to advise that a vote has been called in the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I propose we suspend until after the Dáil vote, if that is agreeable. Apologies to all concerned.