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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. O'Higgins?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Would it be preferable to have a voluntary code at the beginning?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. Cantillon cited the example of Dr. McDonald at the University of Illinois, which appears from the research I have read to have worked reasonably satisfactorily.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask Mr. Boylan to be careful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask Mr. Boylan to be careful when referring to cases that could become identifiable in the public domain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I would like to ask two questions before I hand back to our panel. Surely the delays in the conducting of claims will add to the costs. How can we expedite the process of admitting liability and ascertaining quantum? If we focus excessively on the costs, are we missing the key issues of how to reduce the incidence of medical negligence and how to put in place measures to reduce the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise for the late start. This meeting must conclude at 11.20 a.m. because we have a long-standing appointment with the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety which will begin at 11.30 a.m. and we must allow for the changing of equipment. I remind members and those in the Visitors Gallery that mobile phones should be turned off as they interfere with the broadcasting of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Breen. I invite Mr. Simon Kayll, chief executive of the Medical Protection Society, to make his opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I call on Mr. Martin Varley of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA, to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Varley and I welcome Professor Trevor Duffy, the president of the Irish Medical Organisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I now call the other members of the committee starting with Senator Burke, followed by Deputy Mitchell O'Connor and Senator Crown.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator, with respect, if you had been here for the beginning of the meeting-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: -----you would have heard that we have to finish by 11.20 a.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator, you might just show respect to other members of the committee and stop grandstanding. We have been here since 9.30 a.m. The point I was making is that the Senator has just one minute remaining in his contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Go raibh maith agat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: For the record, the Senator spoke for over seven minutes. I remind the witnesses that we must finish by 11.20 a.m. in order to facilitate the second part of the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to this again if we have time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Sorry. If the Senator does not mind, I will chair the meeting. I have called Mr. Breen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank all the witnesses for attending. This is the first of a set of hearings and we will resume again on Tuesday next. We will suspend until 11.30 a.m. when we will meet the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. Again, I thank everyone for attending and for their co-operation and participation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members to have their mobile telephones switched off and also that a vote on a Bill is due to take place. I formally welcome the new European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Dr. Vytenis Andriukaitis. He is very welcome and I extend to him a ceád míle fáilte. I also welcome his officials who have accompanied him this morning. We are extremely privileged...