Results 13,801-13,820 of 24,438 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: There was a stress that this person's mother was being taken care of by a male.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I will do that. This has been a very useful and necessary first step in our committee's journey. It is about the respect and dignity of our people who are citizens of our Republic and who, in many cases, are vulnerable and require the State to look after and take care of them. It is important that we recognise the value of a very committed workforce who have provided huge service,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: It will come to the secretariat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I have a couple of questions for Mr. Pat Healy on the congregated settings and the policy in that respect. We all welcome the HIQA inspections but, from talking to service providers, we realise there is a financial cost to meeting HIQA standards. In many cases, the service provider has not been resourced. I know of one organisation that has spent close to €700,000 trying to comply...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I have one question based on what Mr. O’Brien just said and on the appointment. Anecdotally, we have all got complaints, either in the meeting with the ambulance service which I will not go over now, and in other areas of the health service. I applaud what Mr. O’Brien is doing but it goes back to Senator O’Brien’s point about the culture. Is Mr. O’Brien...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, can Mr. O'Brien say that again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: What is the position in the case of the agency staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Did they come via a recruitment agency or have there been other checks and balances in respect of that agency?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I will ask a stupid question, if I may. Were these people to go to the south or eastern regions, would they be red-flagged as being under investigation or whatever term, without prejudice to the other case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: For the information of Deputy O'Dowd, this is the first of a series of meetings we are to hold as a committee on the issue of congregated setting, home care setting for people with intellectual disabilities. I have allocated four minutes to each speaker who is not a party spokesperson.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: How does the position co-exist with the role of HIQA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Have those staff been replaced temporarily in their positions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: To go back to Deputy Conway's point on members of management being accomplices or party to reprehensible behaviour, many parents who have made contact with me and, I am sure, other committee members, are seeking accountability and action. I do not want to prejudice anything with regard to the alleged offences. I assume the HSE is awaiting the Garda investigation in this regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Healy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I sincerely apologise to the delegates, staff and the Members of the Seanad for the delay. We will hear first from Mr. O'Brien.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: There is a vote in the Dáil according to the monitor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: We have another eight minutes for the vote. I will take the next speaker, who is Senator Colm Burke. If he could conclude within three minutes, I would be appreciative.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: We will suspend until after the Dáil vote has concluded. I apologise to witnesses for having to interrupt again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise for the absence of Deputy Ó Caoláin, who is due to speak in the Dáil on a Private Members' motion. Deputy Kelleher will leave us as well. I apologise for Deputy Ó Caoláin's absence. He was here earlier for the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I also want to convey the apology of Deputy Kelleher who must go to the Dáil. I call Deputy McLellan, an able replacement for Deputy Ó Caoláin.