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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is that not being lost in translation? If somebody has a long-term illness card or a GP card-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It can be every bit as good as a medical card.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: That is being lost in translation. Where is the deficiency in that case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Notwithstanding all that Mr. O'Brien has said, we have known about this demographic problem - that we are going to live longer and will have an increased population - for some time. In the past we spent money on health - we threw money into health - yet we still had waiting times in emergency departments, we still had an absence of step-down beds and we still had an issue with routine...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I have six other people who wish to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I have eight other people who wish to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: There are nine other members who want to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will take the following three speakers in the order they indicated to me – Senator Colm Burke, Deputy Regina Doherty and Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick. Senator Burke has three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It was question No. 23.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The last speaker listed is Deputy Dowds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will hand back to the Minister of State and the officials. Deputies McLellan, Byrne and Moloney are next, and then Senator Thomas Byrne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, it is not only an issue for the Department of Health.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I should point out that in the coming weeks the committee will undertake work on the cost of drugs and hi-tech medicines.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, it is not only Mr. Hennessy who needs to give a response. Mr. Breslin also needs to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Is it not fundamentally wrong that a group of people, no matter what the issue, have to take to the airwaves to highlight the fact that they are deprived of something after a clinical decision has been taken to prescribe or recommend a particular product?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I will take the answer to that in the next batch of replies, because some people have been waiting all morning to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, and thank him for making a super effort to be here. We appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind Deputies that on 10 March we are holding pre-legislative scrutiny hearings on that Bill.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator must stick to the schedule.