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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: What happens to the drugs if the delivery man arrives at Mrs. Murphy's house and she is not there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. O'Sullivan's presentation is remarkable in the way it demonstrates how people can save money. I do not agree that innovation in the pharmacy industry has been limited. There have been major changes in the pharmacy industry, including what Mr. O'Sullivan is doing. Is there a catch? Are we missing something? It seems remarkable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: If I walk into a Healthwave shop and I have not paid the membership fee, do I get the same discount?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does the association have a term of reference for the tiered model?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Has the association made these remarks to the Department of Health or the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Has the CPU done anything about it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: When HSE representatives come before the committee next week, we will put it to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to Professor Dunne but we are caught for time in terms of the vote in the Dáil. Could he keep his remarks to two and a half minutes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: If I may stop Professor Dunne there, we will suspend until after the vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will suspend until after the Dáil vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to our witnesses, Members of the Seanad and those in the Public Gallery. Sometimes in this business, parliamentary democracy interferes with the real democracy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I have no doubt that the Senator won the coup; he emerged victorious. Professor Dunne was in possession.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that the only reason?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Could that be done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We heard about Gay Byrne's involvement in the campaign. Is there not a need to educate people? I am sure the duty falls on a combination of people and organisations. This relates to my earlier comment that there is a sense of fear and trepidation. This is borne out in the survey. If doctors did not accede to their patients' requests and decided, as Senator Crown suggested, to prescribe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Internet is laden with health warnings and caveats in terms of reliability. Wikipedia has become a tool for self-diagnosis. If people get a pain in their head they will go online to investigate the cause. That should be done with a big health warning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Did Professor Dunne mention a figure of 21% of pharmacists in regard to educating patients? I did not quite hear what he said. I am surprised that the figure for pharmacists would be that low, because in my experience pharmacists engage closely with people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The pharmacist in my community and his assistant will take the time to provide an explanation of medicines to their patients. Last year, when my father was ill, the two pharmacists took care to explain that something was for A, B and C and that my father needed to do X, Y and Z. I was impressed by the quality of care they provided. I was just the messenger but I was told in detail what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Does the APMI have a budget for educating people on the types and uses of tablets?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses for meeting us. It has been a very informative meeting and I was impressed by the contributions from all four witnesses. They have helped us in considering how we can improve the implementation of reference pricing and generic substitution to benefit patients and reduce the cost of drugs. We appreciate their investment and the jobs they have created but, wearing our...