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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: On that point, to the non-legal eye from the outside, such as Deputy Ó Caoláin watching on television, it seems more often than not there is this policy of defend and deny, where one gets to the steps of the courthouse and, suddenly, there is an eleventh-hour solution where the injured person and family is put through an inordinate amount of stress and tribulation which should not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: In an ideal world, we should not have to have Ms Deirdre Courtney before us tonight giving a heart-rendering account of her daughter, Bríd, and her own experience. That applies cross the board. I am not casting aspersions on anybody in or beyond this room, but that should not be the way of doing business. At times, that is the way it comes across.
- 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.