Results 13,781-13,800 of 24,571 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: May I stop Dr. Andriukaitis for one moment? As he will be aware, parliamentary democracy continues. There is a vote in the Chamber. With the permission of the meeting, given the importance of the visit, if Deputy Ó Caoláin and I would be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Ó Caoláin and I might be paired. If members from the other parties want to go to vote, Deputy Ó Caoláin will pair and the Senators will remain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: Neither have I. I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin.
- 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 thank Commissioner Andriukaitis for his very challenging presentation of priorities for the year. Our committee is very proactive in dealing with many of the issues he raised, and we have a broad remit extending from the health area to children's rights and the care of the elderly. At the end of our meeting I will present to the Commissioner a copy of a related report dealing with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: The Commissioner can see we are very passionate, as he is, about our health.
- 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 wonder whether the Commissioner might comment on the issue of the Ebola virus. We are anxious to hear about the visit he made in that regard.
- 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 thank Dr. Andriukaitis on my own behalf and on behalf of the committee for his active participation in this morning's meeting. As Deputy Ó Caoláin rightly said, he spoke about the three Ps and he certainly showed passion in his presentation. I thank all of his cabinet members and members of staff who were here with him this morning. I thank Mr. Scannell and Mr. Miko, who were...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: You left us.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We know that.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We heard the Deputy last Sunday. It was voodoo economics.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: It was not frivolous.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: We are not trivialising it at all.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 34. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make EpiPens more widely available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2344/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (21 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 51. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the timeframe for the universal health/patient identifier; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2345/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (20 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 167. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on special advisers for each of the past four years; the way this compares to the four years 2007 to 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2513/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Transport (20 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 168. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on ministerial drivers and associated travel expenses for each of the past four years; the way this compares to similar expenditure for the four years 2007 to 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2529/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (20 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on special advisers for each of the past four years; the way this compares to the four years 2007 to 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2512/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Ministerial Transport (20 Jan 2015)
Jerry Buttimer: 197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on Ministerial drivers and associated travel expenses for each of the past four years; the way this compares to similar expenditure for the four years 2007 to 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2528/15]