21 Jan 2015, 15:54
Vytenis Andriukaitis, the EU Commissioner on Health and Food Safety, will appear before Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children to consider a range of key health issues.
21 January 2015
The Commissioner is responsible for a Directorate General that aims to:
- Protect and improve public health;
- Ensure Europe's food is safe and wholesome;
- Protect the health and welfare of farm animals, and
- Protect the health of crops and forests
Committee Chair Jerry Buttimer TD says: “The new EU Health Commissioner’s presence tomorrow, so early in his term of office, reflects the importance he attaches to engagement with national parliaments and parliamentarians. The Committee will take this opportunity to learn from Commissioner Andriukaitis about his priorities, and work programme for the year ahead.
“Collaboration is key to making progress in areas such as health prevention. We hope to raise a number of health prevention initiatives with the Commissioner. These include the Committee’s long-standing commitment to enacting legislation on tobacco, and the need for European action to tackle issues such as alcohol abuse and concussion in sport.”
The meeting will start at 11:30 am in Committee Room 2, Leinster House, tomorrow 22 January 2015. It will be preceded by a session on the rising costs of professional medical indemnity insurance (see separate press release). Committee proceedings can be viewed live here.
Committee proceedings can also be viewed on the move, through the Houses of the Oireachtas Smartphone App, available for Apple and Android devices.
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Committee Membership:
Deputies: Jerry Buttimer (Chair), Catherine Byrne, Ciara Conway (Vice-Chair), Regina Doherty, Robert Dowds, Peter M Fitzpatrick, Seamus Healy, Billy Kelleher, Eamonn Maloney, Clare Daly, Sandra McLellan, Dan Neville, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Robert Troy
Senators: Colm Burke, John Crown, John Gilroy, Imelda Henry, Marc Mac Sharry and Jillian Van Turnhout