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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. O'Brien, Professor McGovern, Mr. Condon and Dr. Browne for attending. I also thank the members because we had an early start. I would also like to acknowledge the presence of Mr. Brian O'Toole from the HSE in the public Gallery. Our concerns are based on a genuine expression of opinion given to us by those working in hospitals and members of the IMO and based on our own experience.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, Senator Burke, please allow the witness to continue. I will call Senator Burke again in due course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I ask the witnesses to address Senator Burke's comments regarding the working conditions, particularly the length of the working day for NCHDs. I have had the parents of junior doctors come to my office to voice serious concerns about the impact of the working conditions on the physical and mental health of their offspring. The doctors themselves are afraid they will make mistakes because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Surely we should not be in a situation year on year where this question arises?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: That point is well made and should be highlighted more; it gets lost in translation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I am sorry. Is there is a mobile telephone near a microphone? Could witnesses please switch their mobile telephones off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Has the offer been taken up by Letterkenny?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Burke referred to figures. I did not note all of them. Will the witnesses address the point? In his presentation, Mr. Barry O’Brien, and Professor McGovern, referred to difficulties at registrar level in anaesthesia, general medicine and emergency medicine. Senator Burke outlined figures, one of which related to Cork. Was it the emergency department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Could we have one speaker at a time? When Mr. Condon has replied I will allow Senator Burke to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Ó Caoláin referenced Letterkenny and the reply he received to a parliamentary question in which he was told that there would be a withdrawal of service. Are we happy that there will be no withdrawal of service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to stop Dr. Browne for a moment. In my experience and from talking to colleagues, the clinical directors are making representations to us either on the basis of our committee membership or individually to express concern at what is happening and the impact that could be felt in July. I accept the bona fides of Mr. Condon that today’s figure will be different from next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: As matter of interest, what percentage are service posts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the guests and thank them for attending. I thank Mr. O'Brien for his presentation and for highlighting the current situation. It is reassuring that a commitment has been given to provide a career path and retain graduates. At the same time vacancies exist in key areas as Mr. O'Brien's outlined in his report Anaesthesia, General Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Registrar Level....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recruitment and Conditions of Employment for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: The subject of the meeting is the recruitment, pay and conditions of non-consultant hospital doctors. This is set against the debate we have had as a committee, culminating with the publication of a joint committee report in July 2012. This year we met on 5 March to discuss the concerns of the committee regarding the non-consultant hospital doctor issue. We have also met representatives of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Settlements (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to avoid publication of their name when a settlement was made with Office of the Revenue Commissioners in accordance with a tax amnesty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27936/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Settlements (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to the most recent tax amnesty, when a person has availed of the amnesty and settled all debts with Revenue Commissioners, if the person who made the settlement benefits from an avoidance of publication of his or her name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27937/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (11 Jun 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 447. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No.417 of 28 May 2013 if she has set a deadline for the advisory group on tax and social welfare to report on working age income supports; the date on which she plans to publish the module she has received on social insurance cover for the self employed; if it will be before Budget 2014; and if she will make a...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: As we have heard for the past 20 minutes, we have a reforming Minister who is leading a Department and changing how we do business as a Government and as a Minister. I express my full confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence, Deputy Shatter, and commend him on the tremendous work he is doing thus far in his regime as Minister. I want to speak about a man...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: This Government and this Minister are bringing reform, and let us not forget that. Deputy Niall Collins went on the radio on Friday just after Deputy Mattie McGrath. He could not wait to get his motion of no confidence in. Deputy Martin promised an end to Punch and Judy politics. It is more of the same. Deputy Niall Collins talks like Rambo and acts like Bambi. It is time for real...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: This is a Dáil Chamber. We have privilege in this Chamber and every one of us should use that privilege judiciously. We have no right to abuse that privilege. Of course Deputy Mattie McGrath was implying wrong doing by the Minister, Deputy Shatter, when in opposition, but takes refuge in the fact that he was only asking questions. Some Members of the House will be familiar with the...