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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: How many staff will be recruited to Oberstown? Is there a timeline for the transfer of 17 year old males from St Patrick's Institution? What about a timeframe for the detention of young people in prisons? Tusla still has not got access to psychologists which the committee regards as important. Will the Minister comment on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to that after we suspend for the vote in the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Minister was replying to the members' questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: What about the issue of 17 year olds?
- 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.