Results 1-7 of 7 for lyme disease speaker:Jerry Buttimer

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: ...Jennifer Murnane O'Connor did not blame the Minister for the rain, snow, storms and sunshine, but, thankfully, she did not. However, I accept her point about the plight of those suffering from Lyme disease. When I was Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health, we did a piece of work on the disease. Senator Colm Burke is a member of the current committee which held hearings on the issue...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Jerry Buttimer: ...go to see the Minister because I accept his point that the delay has been too long. As the former Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health and Children, I share Senator Mac Lochlainn's views on Lyme disease. The Senator is probably aware that we had a number of hearings in the committee on the matter. He struck a chord in what he said in the sense that there is a reluctance to...

Fourth Report of the Constitutional Convention on the Dáil Electoral System: Statements (18 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: ...perspective on being a Teachta Dála. We do not sell the committee system well or advocate enough for it, however. We need to do that more. For example, today the health committee held two passionate meetings on Lyme disease and cosmetic surgery. If we did not have a committee system, we would not have heard testimonies about the effects of both. Equally, without the committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank members for their attendance at the second part of this meeting, which follows on from a previous meeting of the joint committee on the issue of Lyme disease. I welcome to the meeting Dr. Colette Bonner, deputy chief medical officer and head of the health protection unit in the Department of Health, Dr. Darina O'Flanagan, director of the health protection surveillance centre in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank Ms Vandegrift Davala for her very moving testimony . I welcome Ms Tracy Brennan and Ms Annette Moloney, two Lyme disease patients and advocates and thank them for being here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: ...as otherwise they interfere with the broadcasting of proceedings and cause difficulties for staff. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss issues surrounding the prevention and treatment of Lyme disease, an infectious disease caused by bacteria transmitted to humans by the bites of ticks infected with those bacteria. I thank Deputies Ciara Conway and Derek Nolan who nominated the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (1 Oct 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 611. To ask the Minister for Health the diagnosis and treatment facilities available for Lyme disease and if there are plans to expand these facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40985/13]