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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Crown made that point in his remarks. He used the analogy of the young doctor conducting a battery of tests. Professor O'Shea referred to information about dying as a contentious issue. Have we changed in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I concur with Deputy Mitchell O'Connor that it is important the issues raised by the witnesses are not lost in the external debate. End of life care will affect all of us. Is it fair to say that assisted suicide will affect a minority whereas we should be looking at the majority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is Ms Rickard-Clarke saying that any person can open an undertaker business with no qualification and no standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: That is not mandatory but is done voluntarily.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: With regard to crematoria, is planning permission-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: We resume now in public session and I apologise to our witnesses. There were two divisions in the Dáil and one in the Seanad. Senator MacSharry had to leave us because he is the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on a Private Members' Bill in the Seanad. He sends his apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I must suspend the sitting. I apologise to our witnesses for this interruption, but we are called to vote in the Dáil as elected Members of our democracy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: As five other speakers have indicated, I will now call on Senators Colm Burke and Crown and then Deputy Catherine Byrne, in that order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I will come to the other members shortly but I want to go back to the panel of witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: How do we compare to Europe or the rest of the world in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is it a cultural thing or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. McCarthy and all the witnesses for their excellent testimony this morning. I apologise on behalf of Deputy Ó Caoláin who had to leave. He is dealing with a Bill later and he had to leave to prepare for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Professor O'Shea and welcome Dr. Joan McCarthy from the school of nursing and midwifery at UCC.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Ms Foley. I now invite Ms Patricia Rickard-Clarke who is representing the national council of the Forum on End of Life in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you Ms Rickard-Clarke. I now call on Professor Eamon O'Shea from the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome everyone to the public session of the meeting. I remind those in attendance that all mobile phones must be switched off as they interfere with the sound and recording system. The first item of business is the scrutiny of COM (2013) 619, a proposal for the regulation of new psychoactive substances. It is proposed that this proposal warrants further scrutiny. It is proposed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The meeting is divided into two parts. I ask members to be concise in their contributions as this will assist in the running of the meetings. This is the first meeting in a series which will investigate the arrangements for end-of-life care in Ireland and what measures can be taken to ensure that persons of all ages who are approaching the end of life are enabled to die well and with...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passports Data (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports in circulation in date and currently valid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45385/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passports Data (24 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports issued to persons ordinarily resident in Ireland or persons using Irish addresses on their application in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45386/13]