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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (23 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of primary care centres which have been opened in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46244/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (23 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of persons attending the primary care centres which have been developed in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46245/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (23 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive has carried out an analysis of the effectiveness of primary centres which have been developed across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46246/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Perhaps the Minister could deal with Deputy Healy's question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister. Child poverty is one of the issues the committee will discuss in November. Deputy Ciara Conway is the committee rapporteur on that report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister for her attendance. The committee will endorse the "Yes" campaign with a photo next week as part of the awareness campaign. I thank the Minister and her officials for attending and for raising and addressing the issues discussed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Healy, the committee will discuss child poverty in the next couple of weeks. I also welcome Mr. Dan Kelleher of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The committee has received an apology from Deputies Regina Doherty and Michael Colreavy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: That is not a matter for this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I remind the Deputy that representatives of Dáil na n-Óg will come before the committee on 22 November next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Francis Fitzgerald, and Ms Elizabeth Canavan, assistant secretary, Ms Moira O'Mara, director, and Mr. Peter Hanrahan, assistant principal officer, at the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. Our meeting comes at an opportune time as we are in the middle of the campaign for the children's referendum - an important plebiscite....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Sector (18 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to publish the revised ports policy; if he will elaborate on the main themes which will feature in the document; if he will outline the role which the Port of Cork will have under the policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44935/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services Provision (18 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will develop and publish an aviation policy for the State, setting out a clear vision for the development of this sector over the coming decade; if Cork Airport will be a central component to this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44936/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (17 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for developing childcare; if she will recommend a proposed model of childcare; if she has examined the model of childcare used in other countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45220/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (16 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the funding provided through his Department, in each of the last five years, to each sporting organisation who had athletes representing Ireland at this year's Olympic games; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44837/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (16 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the effectiveness and use of money provided to high performance units who had athletes representing Ireland at this year's Olympic games; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44838/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (16 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will recommend to the high performance units of all sports that each considers implementing a model similar to that used by the Irish Amateur Boxing Association HPU and that each reports back with a feasibility study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44839/12]

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I propose to share time with Deputy Damien English.

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: As I listened to Deputy Finian McGrath's contribution, it seemed to me that he was talking about a different world from the one in which we live. The Government is charged not only with governing this State but with ensuring we have a country to hand on to the younger generation, including the young students in the Visitors Gallery today. This Bill is about fiscal responsibility, about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: We hope we can work in parallel with the work on the task force report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses for attending, for their very comprehensive presentations and for answering questions. I thank the members. I remind the latter that the questions for the Minister for Health and the HSE, to be answered at the meeting on 15 November, should be submitted to the secretariat before the close of business today.