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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We will not have advocacy on either side of the debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We are having a good discussion on the issue of advocacy. Members can voice their personal opinions in a different forum on a different day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you. I apologise for having missed SAGE's conference and thank Deputy Byrne for stepping in at that time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We have gone way over time, which is an indication of the thorough discussion and interest we have had as a committee on this matter. I thank all the witnesses for being here. For those in the Gallery, the committee hopes to publish a report on the hearing this morning and to inform the Minister and others of what happened here. I thank all the witnesses for their very lengthy and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome, from the Health Service Executive, Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general, and Mr. Patrick Lynch, national director, quality assurance and verification division, and apologise for the slight delay to the start of this session. 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,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Go raibh maith agat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: No; the Deputy is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind the Senator that there is a vote in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Before Mr. O'Brien responds to Senator Burke, who has to go to vote in the Seanad, I ask him to make a brief comment on the role played by the national advocacy unit of the HSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: There is a vote in the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will allow Mr. O'Brien to conclude
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Lynch for participating in this work.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We have a quorum. The Minister, being an ex officiomember of the committee, can be counted for the quorum. Apologies have been received from Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, and, from the Department of Health, Ms Patsy Carr, principal officer, and Ms Roisin Cahillane, assistant principal, to discuss the Committee Stage of the...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Deputy Kelleher wish to make some opening remarks?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Deputy Healy wish to make some opening remarks?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: How stands the amendment?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is Deputy Kelleher satisfied with that?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister and his officials for their presence and I also thank members.
- Tributes to Retiring Member of Staff (25 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Martin had better hurry.
- Tributes to Retiring Member of Staff (25 Nov 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: He is a Dub.