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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Chronic Pain Management: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes. The Deputy is referring to our earlier discussion on sickle cell disease.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Chronic Pain Management: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: That is fair enough. I thank the delegates for their presentations. During the course of the meeting I received a text message from a person whose mother had made a submission to Mr. Lindsay's group and had been watching the proceedings. We are being watched far and wide. I thank everyone for being here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Chronic Pain Management: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Fullen. Dr. Brian McGuire was invited to come before us today, but he cannot be here. I thank both Dr. Fullen and Dr. McGuire for working together on the presentation. I take the opportunity to acknowledge the presence of Dr. Hugh Gallagher. I have received apologies from a number of members who cannot be present for the proceedings, including Deputies Regina Doherty, Robert...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Chronic Pain Management: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Dr. Keaveny. I invite Ms Cathy Sexton to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Chronic Pain Management: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Ms Sexton. I invite Dr. Brona Fullen to give her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Chronic Pain Management: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I compliment Mr. John Lindsay on his tremendous commitment and dedication to the group he chairs. It was a pleasure to meet him and to speak at a number of the group's events.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Chronic Pain Management: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank all the witnesses and members for their patience and commitment to the second meeting this afternoon, on the issue of chronic pain management. I thank all our witnesses and Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor who, like me, recommended that this meeting be organised. I welcome Mr. John Lindsay, chairperson Chronic Pain Ireland, CPI; Professor Laserina O'Connor, president, The Irish Pain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sickle Cell Disease: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank our three witnesses this morning. I apologise to Ms Wogu for mangling her name.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sickle Cell Disease: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: We should forward to the Minister the recommendations made in respect of training for GPs and medical students on sickle cell disease. It is important that we communicate to the Minister and the HSE and ask them to respond positively to the recommendations made in the three papers this morning. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sickle Cell Disease: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Can the Senator make a proposal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sickle Cell Disease: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Is that agreed? Agreed. We recently had a very successful rare diseases day and we also made a recommendation that the Minister would have a national strategy, and a national centre for rare diseases, and I hope that our discussion today may create a momentum towards building progress. I thank the witnesses for their work and their presentations this morning, and I thank Deputy Dowds for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sickle Cell Disease: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Ms Wogu to the meeting and thank her for the work she does as the founder of Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Ireland. We know she got caught in traffic and we understand she is under pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sickle Cell Disease: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and I now invite members to put questions. I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin for allowing Deputy Robert Dowds, as today's organiser, to speak first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sickle Cell Disease: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Ms Wogu and thank her for attending. I call Dr. Conneally to make her presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sickle Cell Disease: Discussion (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome everybody to the meeting. I remind members, witnesses and those in the public gallery to please ensure that their mobile telephones are switched off so that the recordings of proceedings are not disrupted. Such phones can also interfere with the broadcasting of the meeting. The issue for our first meeting this morning is sickle cell disease in Ireland. At the outset I express...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on amending the qualifications for tuition providers under the July provision scheme for persons working with children on the autism spectrum where no teachers from the child's school are available to participate in the scheme, in order that other persons who assist in providing educational supports to the child, such as special needs...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Issues (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the role and benefits of the PeoplePoint system in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17238/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection regarding changes to the rate of payment of the State pension contributory, for persons with a yearly average of less than 40 contributions, in view of the disproportionate impact which this change is having on women, if she will review the changes made and examine if the system of payment can be made more equitable; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 89. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider implementing a homecarer's credit for the purposes of calculating pension contributions for persons who spent time out of work to raise a family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17094/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Bed Data (10 Apr 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that operate mixed gender wards; if he has a view on use of such wards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17148/14]