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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members, witnesses and those following the proceedings from the Gallery to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off for the duration of the meeting because they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even on silent mode. Before we commence the main proceedings of today's meeting, as Chairman I am tabling a motion to ask Dáil Éireann to consider this committee's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is that agreed? Agreed. RTE television will broadcast a programme on organ donation next Monday at 9.35 p.m. The programme will highlight the story of Shane Finnegan and Joe Brolly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The main matter on our agenda is a discussion on end of life care in Ireland. I thank everybody who has been involved thus far in our hearings and welcome this morning's witnesses to our sixth and final session of meetings on end of life care in Ireland. We have had a comprehensive, thorough, sensitive and wonderful set of hearings and I am sure this morning will be no different. I thank...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I really hope that Deputy Collins never assumes power because I would hate to see her in charge of any Department because she stands for nothing and is against everything. I am most disappointed with her contribution. Deputy Collins is like the fairy godmother sprinkling her wand here and there but no answers, no magic, only empty rhetoric. She will never have an answer to the question.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: This Government spends €13.2 billion on health in a country of four plus million people. That is a fact, not fiction.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy is wrong and she should withdraw her remark that those who are entitled to a medical card will not get one. They will. The most vulnerable and those who need it the most will get a medical card. The Deputy is incorrect again. This is typical of the rhetoric in which she engages, time after time. Deputy Boyd Barrett and Deputy McGrath put their fingers in the air to see which...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Whether Deputy Collins likes it or not, the health system of our country is all about the people, the patient, the person who requires a service. That is my only motivation as a person, as a public representative and as chairman of the health committee. For too long we have heard the health vested interests shouting and roaring and using megaphone diplomacy when they should be coming into...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Fianna Fáil ran from the Department of Health under the Fianna Fáil-PD-Green Party Government because they could not take it. They were afraid of it. Deputy Micheál Martin ran with his hands up screaming and Brian Cowen called it Angola. These are the harsh facts.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: At a time of plenty, during the so-called Bertie Ahern Celtic tiger era, when money was thrown at everything, Fianna Fáil, the Green Party and the PDs, had to introduce Supplementary Estimates at a time of boom. Money does not solve everything. During September 2013, 1.987 million people, 43% of the population have either a medical card or a GP-visit card. This is an increased...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Government is creating 3,000 jobs per month and unemployment is decreasing. That is fact, not fiction. I know the Deputy will be disappointed because she wants the Government to fail so that she can propagate her message of doom and gloom again.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: That is what the Deputy stands for. I will debate with her on any point.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I live in the real world where I deal with people every day of the week. I welcome the fact that 93% of those aged over 70 will have a medical card or a GP-only card. I agree it is difficult to have probity with regard to medical cards. However, Members of this House are legislators and as such we must make difficult decisions in the interests of our nation, of our citizens and of our...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind the Deputy that his men ran away from it. They were happy to leave it to Mary Harney.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I appreciate the discretion. I acknowledge that people are worried but the underlying theme is that those who deserve and require access to health care by means of a medical card will be given it. I refer to the long-term illness scheme. I hope the Department and the HSE will engage with Age Action Ireland, the Carers Association and other organisations...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy is for nothing and against everything.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy stands for nothing and is against everything.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I have been listening to the Deputy waffling for the past ten minutes. Which way is the wind blowing?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the procedures in place for determining the rateable valuation of new buildings, the timeframe the valuation process takes; if it is possible for the relevant local authority to levy commercial rates on a property that has not been assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48536/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (13 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the allocation of money for the upgrading and renovation of local authority houses, the amount of funding that will be provided to Cork City and County Councils; when the funding will be distributed to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48537/13]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: While listening to Deputy Ó Snodaigh I thought I was in "Back to the Future" and "Groundhog Day" because the voodoo politics of Sinn Féin certainly do not add up at all. I am sorry Deputy Ó Snodaigh is leaving but the reality is this budget is a jobs budget.