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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Do not shoot the messenger. I am only relaying a message, as requested.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: No. I will bring in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Nine members are waiting, to be fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I will allow the Senator back in at the end. Other members wish to speak and Mr. O’Brien must still answer some questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I will invite him to contribute after Mr. O’Brien.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry, but there is a vote in the Seanad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Perhaps the system should retain information because many of us in this room have heard from people with serious illnesses, be they transplant patients or people with chronic illness or cancer, and families of children with Down's syndrome who have had medical cards removed or up for review and have been questioned. I would make the point that the system should have that capacity. To be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Members should address their comments through the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I will chair the meeting, thank you. I respectfully ask all members and witnesses to make any comments through the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: It is just over three, not four.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Minister, would you address------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I will give the Deputy between eight and ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Tony O'Brien for his very comprehensive report, and I thank him and his staff for the work they do in the delivery of health services. Without naming specific agencies, will he give the committee a sense of a business case for a section 38 or a section 39 agency? What is allowed for in the business case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister. I welcome the director general of the Health Service Executive, Mr. Tony O'Brien.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: I wish to remind members, witnesses and those in the public gallery to please ensure that their mobile phones are switched off or are on aeroplane mode so that the recordings of proceedings are not disrupted. Such phones can also interfere with the broadcasting of the programme. This is our quarterly meeting on health issues. I wish to welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly;...
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: The Travers report.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy has a short memory.
- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)
Jerry Buttimer: Hear, hear.