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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The website has been nominated for a European award.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: That is for a different committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: That is not right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. Sloyan spoke about the market distortion in regard to the VHI health care not being regulated by the Central Bank. What is the impact, or knock-on effect, of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The health insurers will appear later and Senator Crown can ask that question at that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Will Mr. Joyce address the questions posed by Senators Colm Burke, Eamonn Coghlan and Crown?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Can that be said with certainty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Some people would say, anecdotally, that appears not to be the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: No, it is a fair comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: How do we explain in some cases the delay in transfer of funds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I concur as we have seen that happen. There seems to be a lacuna and it appears very convenient for one party to blame another. The consumer caught in the middle is being squeezed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Have those numbers been increasing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Do we have a profile in terms of age group of the people who have left the system? Deputy Naughten mentioned that in the context of growing the market, especially among young people. The Health Insurance Authority's newsletter issued last summer stated that 61,000 had left the system in the past year. Do we have a breakdown of that figure because we are seeing an accelerated exodus and we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: In terms of the 18 to 29 years age group and allowing for emigration, should there be a policy departure regarding that age group to stop the acceleration and to attract people back into the system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Six other speakers are offering. I will call the Deputy later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: If that is the case, the Senator should not go there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Five members have indicated. Who will respond to the first three questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Is the lead-in time acceptable given the way the Dutch took their time to reach that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Are we talking about five years or ten years?