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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I should welcome Mr. Jonathan Irwin, from the Jack & Jill Foundation, who is in the room as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I will take all the speakers together now. I call Deputy Catherine Byrne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. O'Brien was in possession.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will not have a vote for three hours and we hope to be well gone from here by then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In upholding the system, in all of our offices, including that of the Minister of State, people are slipping through who are in desperate conditions and in need of a medical card but something has gone wrong somewhere. That is the situation whether we like it or not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry, but I have one other point. I fully agree with what the Minister of State and the Minister said about people who got medical cards who should never have received them. The question is why they got them on day one if they were 200% or 400% over the limit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Could I stop the Minister of State? There is a vote in the Dáil. I will suspend the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to that. We have a letter with the recommendations of Deputies Dowds and Conway.
- 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...