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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the members for their patience.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Carroll.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We have covered nearly all of the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I have a question in the context of this week's newspaper reports on dietary requirements and the procurement of foods within the Health Service Executive and hospitals. Having worked in a hospital as a porter while going to college, I am aware of the dietary requirements and the types of meals being provided. Are we driven by cost, nutrition or a combination of both? Apart from patients'...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. O'Brien for the clarification. If one were to read the article and listen to the commentary, one would be of the view that all one is getting is processed food and undesirable dietary elements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Did Senator Colm Burke want to make a comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank everybody most sincerely for being here. I want to put on record, at a time when we hear a great deal of criticism in the House, on the public airwaves and in commentaries, that the staff of the HSE are always courteous to me, as Chairman and as a Member of the Oireachtas, and everybody here. They are efficient in their replies. We might not like the replies on occasions but the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the witnesses for the delay. It is now just a two-hand reel with Deputy Ó Caoláin and myself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the delegates but there is a vote in the House.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the witness happy that the negotiations on the new agency are progressing and that the relevant personnel and resources are moving in tandem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: With regard to the centralisation of the ambulance control centre, what is the benefit of that in Cork, for example, where it is currently on Kinsale Road? The despatcher may send an ambulance to Clarke Road or Kent Road, so what sort of technology will help the ambulance, such as Sat Nav or directional operations? Has that been addressed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Five other people are offering but I will allow the Deputy to comment at the end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy can believe it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I have five other speakers waiting and I give a commitment to members that I will allow them back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. O'Brien. I call Deputies Fitzpatrick and Maloney and Senator Crown.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I wish to remind members that RTE will not cover the proceedings because mobile telephones interfere with the sound quality for members and staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: There will be two tranches of €35 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The point made by Deputy Healy was also made at the briefing in Cork on Monday. It is commendable that there is a plan in the southern region to tackle orthopaedic waiting lists. I commend Mr. Pat Healy and Mr. Ger Reaney on taking the initiative but is what is proposed attainable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I omitted to welcome Mr. Liam Woods and Dr. Áine Carroll, both of whom are most welcome to the meeting.