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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the Deputy not to name them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Very quickly. The Deputy has been speaking for three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The person in question is not here to defend himself or herself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy has made her point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: This committee has had a number of meetings on the subject of private health insurance. All of us know from our clinics and offices that people are concerned that health insurance does not seem to be coming down. It is going up. There are now more health insurance plans than one has fingers and toes. While it is necessary to find the correct plan, people are genuinely concerned about the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy has spoken for seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I am being nice to the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the remarks of Mr. Tony O'Brien and I thank him for the inclusion of the Midleton issue in his remarks. On behalf of committee members, I extend our sympathy to the Martinaitis family on the tragic death of Vakaris and we hope the family will receive answers to its questions. I congratulate the five senior managers on their appointments. I congratulate Mr. Stephen Mulvany in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will return to the issue during questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you. I also thank the Minister's officials for their courtesy to our committee. We have received apologies from Deputies Mary Mitchell O'Connor, Regina Doherty, Ciara Conway and Peter Fitzpatrick. I invite the Ministers of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch and Deputy Alex White, to feel free to intervene and make a contribution should they wish. On the scheduling issue, I apologise to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: My apologies. I promoted you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome everybody and thank members for attending. I remind all Ministers, members, guests and officials that mobile phones should be switched off as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment and the work of staff even if they are turned to silent mode. I welcome to our quarterly meeting the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly; the Ministers of State, Deputies Kathleen Lynch and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I was hoping people would be fatigued after three days of public hearings, but I guess they are not.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Members cast an analytical-----
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Members played an analytical role in those hearings.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Regardless of the viewpoints of the expert witnesses who voluntarily gave of their time to come in and give testimony, we gleaned information from them. In the raising of many issues by members of the committee-----
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The bottom line is that the witness list was constructed by the members of the committee, who were able to put forward names so that its composition was balanced and fair.
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I believe the majority of Members of Dáil Éireann are characters who will put the national interest first. They will not play to the media to get cheap headlines or be insincere in what they do. I have every confidence in the Members of this House and Seanad Éireann. We must trust ourselves, notwithstanding the criticisms of the past. If we look back all the time, we can...