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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: How has Mr. Hourihan's organisation allowed the situation to continue without the post being filled?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: What reason did it give?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I suggest that the committee write to the Department of Health to seek an update. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Does that refer to the dentist or the orthodontist? Surely, parents know without having to go to the dentist that providing Ribena or sugar in the doses we are talking about will lead to tooth decay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I want to bring in Deputies Dowds, Catherine Byrne and McLellan, in that order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Is there a reason they are not availing of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Aware of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: How would Mr. Hourihan envisage the voucher system operating?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In fairness, they are open in Cork.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Does Mr. Hourihan want to go back to the other questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputies Ó Caoláin and Mitchell O'Connor must go to the Dáil. Mr. Hourihan may answer their questions first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Hourihan for the presentation. We hope that members of the association will feel free to interact with committee members. In the absence of Fianna Fáil Deputies, Deputy Ó Caoláin can take the lead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The committee is now in public session. We will consider COM (2012) 541, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on in vitro diagnostic medical devices and COM (2012) 542, proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on medical devices, amending Directive 2001/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: State Dental Schemes: Discussion (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Mr. Fintan Hourihan, chief executive of the Irish Dental Association, Ms Clare Dowling, employment and communications officer of the Irish Dental Association, Dr. Andrew Bolas, president of the Irish Dental Association, and Dr. Peter Gannon, chairman of the general practitioners' committee of the Irish Dental Association. I thank them for coming to our meeting this morning. We are...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Travel (28 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his visit to Atlanta, New Orleans and Washington; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15420/13]
- Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind the Deputies opposite that this Government will last its full term. We will not be like the Green Party and Fianna Fáil and we will not flake on the Irish people. If I was to arrive in this Chamber from another planet and read Deputy Michael McGrath's motion, I would have said "fair play" because everything to which he aspires is what the Government is doing and everything he...
- Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I did not interrupt the Deputy when he spoke last night. If I was him, I would be embarrassed by Fianna Fáil's record in government. This is not about punishing people. It is about making sure we have people living in their own homes and that banks behave responsibly and work with and not become disengaged from ordinary people who, in the majority of cases, are trying to make an...
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In the light of the fact that three council workers were suspended for filling a pothole, does the Government have any plan to overhaul the health and safety legislation or change working conditions for council staff? In the case in question, the three workers were on their way back to their depot when they stopped to fill potholes in the common good.
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The workers in question were suspended because they were in breach of health and safety rules.
- Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: It is a serious issue.