Results 17,321-17,340 of 24,339 for speaker:Jerry Buttimer
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We have had a great deal of debate on it.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Kelleher made his point well.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 12 and 13 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 8 and 10 are related and will be discussed together, by agreement.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 6 and 9 are related and will be discussed together by agreement.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Will the Deputy also speak to amendment No. 9 in replying?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We should stick to the amendment rather than broader economic issues.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: This has been discussed with amendment No. 4 so there can be no discussion now.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: There was an oversight on my behalf at the beginning of the meeting. I should have informed the meeting and made members aware that the Minister must leave at 6.30 p.m.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: How stands the amendment?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 4, 5, 7 and 14 are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Amendment No. 5 is an alternative to amendment No. 4. Amendments Nos. 4, 5, 7 and 14 will be discussed together
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I accept the Minister's point and to be fair to the Health Service Executive, the joint committee has a meetings with HSE officials, including quarterly meetings, at which the executive engages with committee members. The joint committee has a good relationship with the HSE, although it is not a one-way street. The picture at local level is different, however. If I were a councillor who...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The amendment relates to local level rather than the Oireachtas.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: It is being discussed on its own.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members that mobile telephones should be switched off completely. Apologies have been received from Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, in whose place Deputy Doherty will substitute. This meeting has been convened for Committee Stage of the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012. I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, and his officials, Ms Bernadette Ryan, Mr. Peter...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: No, mine is turned off.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 2 and 17 are related and may be discussed together by agreement by agreement.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: When the HSE was established, we took away political teeth. I served on the HSE regional forum and it was not worth the paper it was written on. There was no accountability and we were fobbed off with answers that were unsatisfactory. In the context of the HSE, the Minister's presence in office notwithstanding, there is a need for political involvement at local level, whatever about us in...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In the HSE, to be fair. I have not dealt with the Vatican that much. The HSE at local level in Cork is very good. I would like there to be more political involvement at local level. While this is not the point Deputy Ó Caoláin is making, it highlights a missing link.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Travel (23 Apr 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: 141. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on his visit to Germany; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18348/13]