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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind Deputy Ó Caoláin that this committee does not have an investigative role. It is important that we present the content of today's meeting to the HSE and HIQA to respond to us and meet us. I want to wait until we hear from other people before we come to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes. As Senator Colm Burke has an Adjournment matter in the Seanad I will let him speak now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, the persons about whom Senator Crown is speaking are not here to defend themselves. We must have balance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Lawless for his presentation. While I admire him for his passion, his views are his own. The committee does not have any remit to examine the neurological centre at Beaumont. It is examining national health policy. I must point out that the HSE, HIQA and the hospitals referred to are not here to offer a counter view. For fairness and balance, we will have to offer an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Doherty for his presentation. Our next and final witness is Mr. Jim Lawless who is a patient advocate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, I do not wish to be unfair but in the context of that remark I must point out that representatives of Beaumont Hospital are not here and we have no function regarding the hospital. Our remit is national health policy and that is the framework within which we are discussing this issue. Even though Mr. Lawless is expressing a personal opinion, he may be making a defamatory statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: They did not approve it. No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: This committee meeting is a meeting of Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas. We would like to hear Mr. Lawless's presentation but I must advise him, for his own sake and that of the committee members, that he should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable. Representatives of the entity that Mr. Lawless has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, I must ask Mr. Lawless to withdraw that remark because ---

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: HIQA is an independent authority, to be fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Under statute and law, it is an independent authority. We will come back to this at the end of the presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Rogers. I thank Professor Hardiman for attending. She will address the committee this afternoon in her own capacity. I invite her to make her presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Professor Hardiman for attending today's meeting. I remind members that she is speaking in her own capacity and not on behalf of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind colleagues that the HSE is not present and it might be necessary to bring in its representatives at a later date in the interests of balance. It gives me great pleasure to call on Dr. Colin Doherty, the consultant neurologist in St. James's Hospital to speak. Like Professor Hardiman, he is speaking in his own capacity. He is very welcome. I thank him for being present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind people to switch off their mobile telephones or set them to aeroplane mode. I welcome members and witnesses to this meeting this afternoon. I welcome Ms Magdalen Rogers, development manager of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, Professor Orla Hardiman, professor of neurology and head of the academic unit of neurology, Trinity College, who also is a consultant neurologist at...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance if expenditure on maintenance and improvement of a property can be taken into account when determining the amount of capital gains tax due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6306/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Assessments (11 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance if the liability for local property tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be reviewed taking into account that they do not own some of the properties which the Revenue Commissioners have stated for part of their LPT liability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6311/14]

Down's Syndrome (Equality of Access) Bill 2013: Second Stage (7 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: In welcoming the Bill, which seeks to grant all children with Down's syndrome automatic entitlement to resource teaching hours, I compliment Deputy Finian McGrath on bringing the Bill to the House. In particular, I pay tribute to Pat Clarke of Down Syndrome Ireland for the way in which he has engaged with all of us. He is a model of how we can do business. I come to this debate with...

Topical Issue Debate: RTE Compensation Payment (6 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I fully accept the Minister's position regarding involvement in the day-to-day management of RTE. However, we as a society and this Parliament have a role to play in the national broadcaster. RTE got it completely wrong. It folded in its tent . This week in the Oireachtas we were told as gay people that it is a matter of "social re-engineering" by the "gay ideological movement". I am...

Topical Issue Debate: RTE Compensation Payment (6 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The sequence of events arising from “The Saturday Night Show” give rise to serious concerns on how public discourse is conducted, the language we use, the labels we apply to others and, more important, the role of our public service broadcaster. I believe RTE was erroneous and wrong in what it did in this case. It folded too quickly. Who advised the broadcaster on this? What...