Results 11,821-11,840 of 24,326 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the Deputy referring to the reply to her office?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I was asking about the reply to the Deputy's office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the Deputy referring to Tusla?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We will take up that matter with Tusla and the committee rather than the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I appreciate that. We will raise the matter with Tusla on the Deputy's behalf.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Secretary General has to leave by 3.30 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: On behalf of the members, I wish the Minister, his family, his staff and personnel in the Department a happy Christmas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It is our last quarterly meeting this year with the Minister.
- 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.
- Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In welcoming the opportunity to speak tonight, I am acutely conscious that all of us in this august Chamber share the privilege of being here at the behest of the people we represent. I do not want to turn this debate into an adversarial political game of criss-cross but I ask the Deputies opposite to reflect on the recent BBC "Spotlight" programme and on the activities engaged in by members...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome members and witnesses to this afternoon's meeting. We are joined today by Mr. John Hennessy, who is the national primary care director of the HSE; Ms Anne Marie Hoey, who is the assistant national director in primary care reimbursement and eligibility in the Primary Care Reimbursement Service; Ms Siobhán McArdle, who is the operations manager in the Primary Care...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you. We appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Four other members have indicated that they wish to speak. I will bring Deputy Seamus Healy back in again at the end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: If Deputy Healy has specific cases, he can pass them on to Ms Hoey and Mr. Hennessy and I am sure they will be happy to look at them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: At a meeting of this committee last Thursday, witnesses took issue with the Gardasil vaccination and referred to the need for ongoing support for their daughters' ongoing care. We also met people on the subject of Huntington's disease. Subsequent to our meeting in January, we wrote to Mr. O'Brien about the issues identified by the group lobbying on behalf of those with that disease....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Why should that be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: There is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In that case, the person applies for a medical card in the normal way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that made clear to people? Many of us find that the over-70s persons who apply are not necessary looking for the GP card but for the ancillary supports and services, appliances and medication that come with it.