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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In fairness, that is not what she said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We have the sale of alcohol Bill. The Government is tackling it. Deputy Troy's party in government did not do a whole lot with the vested interests, if he wants to play a particular game.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Your own party leader played a good role in that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Has the penny dropped that this must happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: After all we have gone through, including the referendum and the fallout from other issues, are we saying this professionalism gets abandoned for the sake of building an empire or operating in a silo? For what reason?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We all concur with the Senator on that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I also join with Deputy Ó Caoláin in thanking Dr. Shannon for his briefing and raising these issues today in the Oireachtas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: A vote has been called in the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will suspend and I will call the Senator when we return.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Shannon for concluding well within the 30 minutes allocated. I thank him for what members will agree was a fascinating and persuasive presentation. I compliment him again on the work he does and his advocacy. We are all the better for his attendance this afternoon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members that their mobile telephones must be turned off. We will deal with correspondence and the minutes of our previous meeting at our meeting on Thursday morning. Apologies have been received from Deputy Catherine Byrne and Deputy Billy Kelleher. I welcome to our meeting Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, the special rapporteur on child protection, who is here to discuss his sixth and most...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The opening remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We can get that for the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (19 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the tax credits available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48866/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes. I apologise. The Senators are still here, thankfully.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Members of the Seanad play a pivotal role in our committee. Speaking of the Seanad, I remind Members of both Houses – I am sure that Senator van Turnhout has done this - that today is the last day for the submission of questions for our quarterly meeting with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Good. I also remind members that we will meet next Tuesday at 5.15 p.m. with Dr. Geoffrey Shannon. The report has been circulated to members. If not, it will be done today. I will revert to members regarding the change in the schedule of the other meetings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you Ms Breen. I draw the attention of members to the comments by the actor Gabriel Byrne to Simon Carswell in The Irish Times of 13 November. Perhaps he was resonating the points made by Professor Plunkett's today. Telepathy is good. I thank all the witnesses. Over the past number of weeks we have had six sessions to look at the end-of-life care in Ireland and what can be done to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In regard to the issue around pastoral care and the CPE programme and, in particular in Cork University Hospital where there was a question mark about it continuing, is that programme still ongoing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Where are the other training venues?