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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will take one speaker at a time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Seven other members have indicated, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We raised that point at previous meetings with the HSE. To reinforce the issue, I recommend that there be a point of contact for people in the review process. A cold letter landing on the mat is not enough. This cannot be an inhumane, bureaucratic exercise. It must be about the person. I hope that the Minister, Mr. Burke, Mr. Tony O'Brien and the HSE consider putting in place a dedicated...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: There is fear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: No, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I will actually allow Senator Burke to contribute briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I am conscious that seven other members wish to contribute and that there is a vote in the Dáil on a Private Members' motion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I am aware that the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, must go to the Dáil and I would appreciate it, therefore, if members adhered to the time limits.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I will now take questions from other members in blocks of three, beginning with Senator Colm Burke and Deputies Ciara Conway and Catherine Byrne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I acknowledge the presence of Mr. O'Brien and compliment and thank him for negotiating on behalf of the HSE on the non-consultant hospital doctors issue, on which the committee was very much involved in holding meetings. We wish both sides well in the impending result. We do not want to get involved in it, but I thank Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Eric Young of the IMO for the work they did in, I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We are back in public session. I apologies to the witnesses, Senators and those in the Visitors Gallery. When a vote is called in the Dáil, Members must vote and there are no pairs for committees. I ask Mr. O'Brien to resume.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I must interrupt as a vote has been called in the Dáil. I propose we suspend until after the vote. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Minister's allocation of ten minutes is almost up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Is it agreed that we allow the Minister more time? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome everybody to our quarterly meeting with the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, the Ministers of State at the Department of Health, Deputies Alex White and Kathleen Lynch, and the representatives of the Health Service Executive, HSE, led by Mr. Tony O'Brien. I remind witnesses and people in the Visitors Gallery to turn their mobile phones off or switch them to flight mode...
- Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome this measure, the announcement of which ties in with the Minister for Health's drive to achieve a tobacco-free Ireland by 2025. Those who are making their comments should be aware that a report published by the Minister for Health contained 66 recommendations in this regard. I compliment Deputy Micheál Martin for the approach he took on tobacco. It is time for a unified...
- Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Unbelievable.
- Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Self-help.
- Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will all hold hands next.