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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: The collapse had not happened. To be fair to the witness and to protect her, it is beyond the remit of today’s meeting to bring up those matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Just for the record, I never asked Senator Crown to leave. He is not upsetting me at all. I am just trying to protect the witness, which is my job. It is my duty to chair the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask Senator Crown to be very brief in his contribution, because he has contributed already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: That is a different matter altogether, to be fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: That is not part of the committee's business this morning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: It would be remiss of me not to acknowledge in the public Gallery the new chief executive of the HPRA, Dr. Lorraine Nolan. She is very welcome. I thank her for being here. On the committee's behalf and on my own, I express our appreciation and thanks to Pat O'Mahony, who has been most courteous, professional and personable to the members of this committee. We wish him well in the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Burke has tabled a Commencement debate in the Seanad and apologises for having to leave.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to raise the issue with Ms Horan of support groups for people who have suffered after receiving DePuy hip replacements. A number of women in Cork have expressed concern that there is no support group in Cork. Perhaps Ms Horan could ask the HPRA to look at that as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Horan for the quality of her presentation and engagement. It is quite clear she is a person of exceptional quality and expertise. We very much welcome her appointment and thank her. I thank Dr. Nolan for the promptness of the replies we have received to our correspondence with the HPRA regarding DePuy hip replacements and the medical use of cannabis. We appreciate that. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: We will resume in public session. Is that agreed? Agreed. I remind members and witness to turn off their mobile telephones as they interfere with the broadcasting of proceedings. In this session we will discuss the issue of wellness, well-being and mental health. I welcome Mr. Niall Breslin, perhaps better known as "Bressie", and thank him for his leading role in raising this matter. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Breslin for his informative and courageous presentation. He is right that we are in a transitional period and that is why this morning is an opportune time to discuss this issue. I welcome Dr. Paul D'Alton, a senior clinical psychologist and head of the psycho-oncology department at St. Vincent's University Hospital, and call on him to make his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. D'Alton for his excellent presentation. I commend Deputy Dan Neville, in his absence, on his work and advocacy on the issue of mental health. The Deputy sends his apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: We are here every Thursday morning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Breslin. I ask Dr. D'Alton to respond to the questions that have been asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: How does Dr. D'Alton propose we do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: In conclusion I thank both our witnesses. The presentations were powerful and we have had a quality questions and answers session. It is important that we do not leave it within this room, that we take the testimony from our meeting this morning to the next level to the Minister and to the Department. We are in a period of transition, both politically and because we now have more people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: That is good to hear.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Applications (26 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: 270. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for applications under the Immigrant Investor Programmes; if she has a dedicated contact point in her Department with which applicants or their representatives can correspond; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2724/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (26 Jan 2016)

Jerry Buttimer: 299. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provisions he will make for children with special needs given the extension of the free pre-school year; if additional funding will be provided for increased personal assistant hours for children with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2696/16]