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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I am not preventing the Senator at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: It clearly is but by one side.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister of State but, in terms of having great difficulty getting to the table, he has made a number of requests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Has he received replies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: With regard to sections 38 and 39 and governance in St. Vincent's, Mr. O'Brien is right that it is not about the individual personality or the person but the governance. I asked him earlier about the business plan. If an organisation submits a business plan to the HSE what is the criteria for its acceptance? If Mr. O'Brien is referring to compliance with Government policy or pay policy,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: What does Mr. O'Brien mean by merit? I ask him to give an example of merit in terms of an organisation making a business case. For me, it means receiving X when Y is the standard amount.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Will the report of the review panel and its workings be published on 14 April?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Does the HSE intend to publish its report at a press conference or at a separate meeting of the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Does that include this committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Will it be published on 14 April?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: It is important to have the publication released at our meeting rather than somewhere else but I understand that it is a matter for the HSE. However, I shall make the point that as the committee-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes. We have also received correspondence from Mr. Tony O'Brien which he sent to us in January. I hope that this committee will be the forum chosen to present the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: We are the committee responsible for health and, therefore, we would be the appropriate committee for it. That is my opinion as Chairman. We will formally write to the HSE this morning on that basis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Vice Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. O'Brien. Senators Colm Burke and Crown had to attend a vote in the Seanad but have now returned. I call Senator Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Finally, I call Senator John Crown.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: With regard to the question Deputy Conway asked, we received correspondence from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in February which expressed its concern about the staffing situation in our hospitals. It made the point that there is a deficiency in the staffing number and it is concerned about staffing levels and the safety of maternity services. That was stated in a letter to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: If I might interrupt Mr. Mulvany for a second, we have just received a note from the broadcasting unit. If mobile telephones or iPads are on, members should switch them off, as they seem to be interfering with the broadcasting equipment. I ask members to co-operate.