Results 12,921-12,940 of 24,326 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Sub-Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Health (General Practitioners Service) Bill 2015 and made no amendments thereto.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to switch off their mobile phones as they interfere with the broadcasting of these proceedings. Today, the committee has requested the attendance of officials from the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, to discuss its investigation into the safety, quality and standards of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Quinn. Deputy Ó Caoláin has had to go to the Dáil Chamber to take part in the Topical Issue debate. I will call him when he arrives back. I will begin by calling Deputy Kelleher, who has five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Will the Deputy please conclude?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In the absence of Deputy Ó Caoláin, I will call the following members in turn, Deputy Regina Doherty, Senator Colm Burke and Deputy Mitchell O'Connor. They have three minutes each.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The issue of Cavan hospital is not relevant to our meeting today. We will discuss it again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Ó Caoláin has returned so I will call him next. Then I will call on Mr. Quinn to respond before calling on other members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We will have an opportunity at another forum to deal with the issue of Cavan hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In fairness to HIQA, the report on the other hospitals is ongoing and is not concluded. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We have three other speakers to put questions, but we will take a response from Mr. Quinn before coming to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Was that governance review to involve the HSE or just the hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Why was that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Has Mr. Quinn a view on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. Quinn agree that it is regrettable that there was a public exchange between HIQA and the HSE regarding the report, and that it should not really have got to that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Given that it has not changed substantially, in Mr. Quinn's opinion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It looks bad to have two State bodies engaged in a type of discourse, or whatever one wants to call it, that reflects badly on the whole process. That is my opinion as Chairman of this committee. I accept Mr. Quinn's point that he did not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Will Ms Dunnion explain that point, please, in simple terms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The report states that two months earlier the assessment had not been given but Mr. Quinn noted in his opening remarks that the hospital did not have a strong safety culture.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In regard to the 16% figure for complaints, is that why the report did not definitively express confidence in the safety of the hospital?