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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: That is it. Senator Crown spoke about this at length.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is democracy. The alternative is fascism.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Was the board a party to the Lansdowne Road agreement? Was political pressure put on it? The corollary of my second question is whether the Department is forcing the board down a particular route to reduce its income stream, resulting in it not being able to carry out its functions while being unable to replace that income. The Department seems to be forcing it on various issues, including...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is a minor point. It is a word I dislike. I do not know much about midwifery, but the word "cnáimhseachais" comes from the Irish word "cnámh", for bone, and there is a bad history behind that word and midwifery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The Minister told us he had no role in the retention fee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I did not get an answer to the question I asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I need to get an answer. I did not hear the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Why did the witness not complain about how the system is being run? It is clear that the Government is telling the board not to raise money and is not giving it the money, but is then giving out to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I am an equal member of this committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The Chairman is collegial when he wants to be. He has shown-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: On the Lansdowne Road process, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced that the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland would not be increasing its retention fee until 2019. What was the role of the board in that? What on earth is role of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in that organisation? Is the board being told not to collect money? We have been told...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Who took the decision, then? It is the board's decision to increase the fee, yet that decision seems to have been taken by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Health in these negotiations. What else were they telling the board to do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Has the board made a decision to implement the Lansdowne Road agreement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Your board-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is very relevant to this issue. It is your board's decision-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: We will have collegiality when it suits the Government. I am asking a very pertinent question here about everything that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is the worst committee in the House. Let us be honest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: There is no holding anyone to account, especially not the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I am trying to get to the bottom of who made a decision that is a statutory function of the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is extremely relevant because it is about how the board operates and how it is able to operate.