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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Hopefully, the community teams will help to change that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: That it is important but it is also important that the organisation also communicates with the Department about that. We can discuss that afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: As opposed to a service level agreement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the funding primarily provided by the HSE or is it part funded by SBHI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Has the HSE intimated what it intends to do in this area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Who did Mr. Kennedy meet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The organisation was promised that the post would be filled in 2009.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The committee issued a press release on our hearings. I commend Mr. Maher on his efforts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: How many people in the country suffer from the syndrome? The witnesses suggested a figure of 1.4 million people worldwide.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Has the group made a submission to the Department on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: It has not written formally to the Department of Social Protection or engaged with the HSE or Department of Health.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: There is a Bill being prepared regarding that. We will make a recommendation from today's meeting, if members agree, that we would ask that it would be considered that this condition be put on the long-term illness list. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: We will take the other two speakers now, Senator Landy and Deputy Deering.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I encourage Ms Ann Mooney and Ms Jude Bromley to participate in the replies if they wish. We will begin with Mr. Maher who can choreograph the answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: In that regard, I commend Mr. Maher on his courage and bravery in doing that and hope that he will be a catalyst for other men to come forward and to be active participants in the group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Told by whom?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It would be appropriate for this committee to write to the HSE to seek an update following Mr. Kennedy's presentation. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Maher for his very moving testimony and presentation. Members met the delegates in the audiovisual room previously. I acknowledge the presence of Deputy Pat Deering, who was at the meeting on the morning in question. I now call Mr. George Kennedy of Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Perhaps Mr. Landy would like to join us at the front rather than hiding at the back.