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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: That concludes this session. I thank Dr. McCarthy, Dr. Sheehan, Dr. Fenton, Professor Casey, Professor O'Keane and Ms Maeve Doyle for attending the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I note nine minutes remain for answers in this module .
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Timmins is next and three minutes remain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: That concludes members' questions. The session is now open to non-members for 20 minutes. Eight members have indicated they wish to contribute. I will take the first three, Deputies Terence Flanagan, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Bernard Durkan, in the order in which they indicated they wished to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to that at the end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Walsh should note we are not going to have a slagging match. We will have a very calm and dignified debate, as we have had all day. The Deputy has made his point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy has made his point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Professor Casey has made her comment in good faith.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Professor Casey has three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Dr. McCarthy has three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Professor Casey is here in her professional guise. It is only fair to point that out. She is presenting here today as an eminent psychiatrist.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator has made his point. Before asking Dr. McCarthy to respond to points made by Members, I ask him and his colleagues to be as brief as possible in their replies. I am conscious that four other Members wish to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: There are 60 minutes for members for questions and answers. I call Deputy Billy Kelleher.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. McCarthy. I welcome Dr. Maeve Doyle to the meeting. It is now my pleasure to call on Professor Patricia Casey to make her submission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Professor Casey has ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members of the committee, members of the media and witnesses that mobile telephones should be turned off for the duration of the meeting to facilitate the broadcasting of these proceedings. This is the third session of a series of hearings the joint committee will conduct over the next three days to discuss the implementation of the Government decision following the publication of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Perhaps Dr. McCarthy would keep the paper away from the microphone. It is difficult to get this right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: You are in a good place here in the Seanad Chamber, because there are probably a couple of babies here too, although perhaps I should not say that. I am only joking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We have reached the end of the time allocated for this section. As the witnesses do not wish to make any final concluding statements, I thank the members and our witnesses, Dr. Rhona Mahony, Dr. Sam Coulter Smith and Dr. Mary McCaffrey, for attending the hearing. We will suspend the sitting until 2.45 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Walsh please show respect and courtesy to the Chair and the witnesses and stand when speaking.