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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: We will not try to have it now either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Has the Minister of State a timeline for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: She did not produce a report. This committee produced a report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: For the purposes of clarification, when this committee was formed, it was the initial topic of deliberation that we took on as a priority. We produced a report, which we gave to the former Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall. The Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, will respond to Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a priority, as are drugs. The committee shares Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan's concerns regarding alcohol and I thank him for raising it this morning. I call Deputy McConalogue, the last man standing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Deputy McConalogue and welcome him back to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: For the Deputy's own sake, she should be careful of the facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Sorry Deputy, what question number is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: That issue pertains more to children's services.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: As this discussion is on the questions members have submitted, I cannot allow that question to be asked.
- 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 fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Sorry, the last remark was unnecessary and we do not carry on in that way in this committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I will not let you take the last question because it is not relevant. To be fair, the quarterly meeting is on the questions submitted by members and as the Deputy is aware, I allow some latitude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: No, the Deputy is over his time. Deputies Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and McConalogue are not members of the joint committee but they wish to ask questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To get an answer, it does. The Deputy should be aware he may not be able to get an answer to a specific question right now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I call the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Burke asked a question about the time limits-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In terms of the EU working directive, a number of parents of non-consultant hospital doctors, NCHDs, came to see me because they were genuinely concerned about the number of hours they worked, their health and the stress they were under. I have spoken to members of the Irish Medical Organisation who were involved in the NCHD sub-committee and they are concerned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Dr. Mark Murphy and other NCHDs came before the committee some weeks ago. I do not want to put Mr. O'Brien on the spot in terms of the deal done on career path this week with the Labour Relations Commission but one of the major points from that meeting was the need for a clear career path for our own Irish-educated and trained professionals to stay here rather than going abroad to work,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. O'Brien want to comment?