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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The invitation is noted.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Have we changed policy about State claims? Deputy Ó Caoláin made a point about State claims in terms of litigation, taking an inordinate amount of time to reach a settlement and leaving it until the steps of the courthouse. Is there hope of changing the culture of this situation?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister will respond as we go through the subheads. I remind members that we will consider-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The Minister normally replies as we go through the subheads. If he wants, he can reply to the opening remarks.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: In the absence of a Fianna Fáil representative, I call Deputy Ó Caoláin.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members, delegates and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting of the proceedings. I remind members of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against any person outside the Houses or an entity, by name...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 343. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the routine maintenance regime for ambulances operated by the national ambulance service, including details of time and mileage intervals between routine servicing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47193/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times each ambulance was serviced or repaired since January 2008, where such servicing or repair of an ambulance was outside of planned routine maintenance; if he will provide details of the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47194/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 345. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the repair and maintenance of ambulances, the records that the Health Service Executive and-or the national ambulance service are required to keep; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47195/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 346. To ask the Minister for Health for the period 2008 to date in 2014, if he will provide details of the periods of time that each ambulance has been out of service due to servicing or repair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47196/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 347. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of ambulance breakdowns since January 2008; if he will provide a description or reason for each breakdown; if he will provide details of which county each breakdown occurred in; if a patient was being carried in the ambulance at the time of breakdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47197/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 348. To ask the Minister for Health since 2008, the number of ambulances that have broken down more than once; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47198/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 349. To ask the Minister for Health since 2008, the number of ambulances that have been taken off the roads as a result of breakdowns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47199/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme, if he will confirm if the expert panel specifically considered the interests of deferred members, both shorter service and long service members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46432/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (3 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 138. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will consider providing assistance in funding the purchase of a building (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46434/14]

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Listening to the contributions of Deputy Kelleher et al., I felt it was a bit like the parishioner who at the beginning of Holy Week went to the sacrament of reconciliation but, not having the courage to go in private to the confessional, went for the open absolution instead to purge himself of his sins. I am sorry Deputy Martin is not present tonight, because he was the architect of much of...

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The sum total of the Fianna Fáil health policy amounts to just 244 words tonight criticising a budget and service plan that delivers more for health than Fianna Fáil ever dared consider. I accept the motion is not down to Deputy Kelleher, but it is the continuation of the Punch and Judy theme Deputy Martin promised to get rid of. However, he constantly resorts to that tactic to...

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Which is part of a two-term policy.

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: We have committed to abolishing the HSE. We have begun the process of reform but we have always said that reform will take time. It has not been abandoned, as Deputy Kelleher knows, and the Future Health strategy framework is the blueprint for that. Let us look at what the Government has done in its time in office in terms of the clinical programmes and in terms of capital. Today, we were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The capacity review report is not yet available and in fairness, while the joint committee can bring them in before Christmas if possible, I believe we would be speaking in a vacuum without that capacity review. We have received one part of a report in a series of reports that does not give members the whole picture.