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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I was going to finish by saying that the creation of a stand-alone Department with a Minister at Cabinet level has given the issues of children and youth affairs a prominence and priority in the hierarchy that they did not necessarily have before. We have travelled a long way, but there is another ways to go. I thank everyone for attending. Please convey to your colleagues and staff our...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Members should send their views on it to the clerk, Mr. Murphy. I hope to have it approved at next Thursday's meeting. We will only have one meeting next week, at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, 17 December. I propose that we adjourn until then. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy only had four Members with him.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We are not jeering at all.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy only had four Members with him.
- Prisons Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In welcoming the opportunity to speak on the Bill, I wish to speak as Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, in which capacity I will reference Oberstown. I also wish to speak as a Deputy from the city of Cork, where there is a proposal for a new prison. The important point is that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has indicated it is his intention that the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Population Statistics (15 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 77. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons aged over 80 years in 2015; and the forecast annual increase in that number to 2021. [45009/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (15 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 423. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who reach the annual limit €1,728 of the Drugs Payment Scheme, the number of persons who met the previous limits of €1,584 in 2012, and €1,440 in 2011; the average annual spend per household on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45007/15]
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We were here. In fairness, Billy was.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Apologies have been received from Deputies Ciara Conway, Billy Kelleher and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. Before we begin the main discussion, on my own behalf and that of the joint committee, I pay tribute to and congratulate Mr. Geoffrey Shannon on his appointment as a judge. As members know, he is the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, as well as chairman of the Adoption...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: That would not be part of the witnesses’ remit. They might be good but they are not that good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to that issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The most startling comment in the Deputy's proposal is that she is going to be a doting grandmother. I call Senator Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Might the Senator have an iPad near the microphone? It was buzzing but appears to have stopped now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I invite Mr. O'Flynn to respond and Professor Higgins and Mr. O'Dwyer can come in as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Who drives the site selection process and puts the people together?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: By that theory, and reverting to Senator Burke's question, is Mr. O'Flynn saying we should not invest in the South Infirmary-Victoria Hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Can the reconfiguration model you developed be replicated across the country? Is that being done or has it been done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acute Hospital Services: Discussion (17 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In the final part of his presentation, Mr. O'Flynn mentioned leadership within the health service area. Is that leadership in tandem with political leadership? I had to smile when he spoke about the orbital route and networking. Is there buy-in at local level from local authorities also? It is great to have the plans on paper. The work he does and has done testifies to his commitment to...