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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Boxing is also won on points, as the Senator knows quite well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Dr. Flannery mentioned the stewards' role in checking the fields and courses in competitions. How qualified are the stewards?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Do the course designers for the Horse Show in the RDS, for example, have to take cognisance of health and safety parameters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: What about the puissance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Last week, we had a very interesting conversation about head gear, such as the skull cap in rugby. Is there a sequence of change in boxing head gear?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Deputy to take care naming names.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Flannery and all our witnesses this morning for their excellent presentations. We now move to questions and answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Hassanein. We will now hear from Dr. Joe McKeever, medical adviser to the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, IABA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Or Dr. McKeever could summarise them if he so wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. Hassanien wish to make his opening statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I call on Dr. Rod McLoughlin of the IRFU, the Irish Rugby Football Union, to make his opening statement. I thank him for meeting the committee prior to this hearing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind Members, witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off or on airplane mode as they interfere with the broadcasting of equipment and they are unfair to members of staff. We have apologies this morning from Deputies Robert Dowds, Regina Doherty, Eamonn Maloney and Ciara Conway. This is our third in a series of meetings of the joint...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the services and resources available for neonatology care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38772/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the services and supports available to parents of preterm babies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38773/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the national neonatal transport service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38774/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: 159. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the 50% increase in its annual retention fee by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; the steps the will take to reduce the fee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38775/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide for the years 2009 to 2013, the amount spent by the State each year on medicinal drugs; the total savings generated by reference pricing and generic substitution. [38776/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Chronic Disease Management Programme (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: 161. To ask the Minister for Health his views on developing a national policy on coeliac disease; if he will establish an expert review group to work with his Department and the Health Service Executive to develop such a policy and formulate guidelines for the screening, diagnosis and dietary support for those with coeliac disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38779/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the measures taken to ensure that class sizes at primary level do not increase; if she will introduce initiatives to reduce class sizes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38777/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Oct 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the measures that have been taken to reduce the numbers of prefabricated classrooms in use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38778/14]