Ó Caoláin, CaoimhghínWednesday, 7 May 2003 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Ceisteanna – Questions. - Hospital Services.
Surely Question No. 57 should be taken in priority time.
Ceisteanna – Questions. - Home Help Service.
Asked the minister: if his Department is monitoring the effectiveness of the home help scheme, including the impact of cuts in allocations to health boards resulting in reductions of services to people in need.
Why does the Minister compare 2003 with 2000? He should go back to 1930. We are talking about the effect of budget cutbacks in 2003 compared with the service provision in 2002. That is the nub of this...
Does the Minister of State regard that reduction of 85,000 hours in the North-Eastern Health Board area this year as acceptable? How does the Department monitor the effect of this in terms of the dail...
Is the Minister of State aware that there is a cutback of 9% in home help hours in his area? What is he doing to address this issue?
Ceisteanna – Questions. - Other Questions (Resumed).
Does the Minister acknowledge that changes in training rules being implemented by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland as signalled by the Irish Medical Organisation have been in the offing for so...
We are talking about now.
The Minister says he will not intervene or interfere but I argue that it is long past the time he did both.
Ceisteanna – Questions. - Hospital Services.
Is the Minister aware that less than one-third of 12,000 patients in this State who require radiotherapy each year are currently receiving that service? It is essential, as I am sure the Minister agre...
I never said six.
Would the Minister not agree that we certainly need more?
Could the Minister clarify when the report will be published? When can we expect to see it?
Ceisteanna – Questions (Resumed). - National Development Plan.
Has the cross-departmental team looked seriously at alternatives to public-private partnerships for the funding of infrastructural development? Has it looked at the possibility of utilising the enormo...
How big is big? What is the threshold?
Surely —
Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31.
I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to raise the following matter of urgent public importance: the need for the Minister for Health and Children to take immediate and urgent action to avert a virtual m...
Order of Business.
No. I wrote to the Taoiseach last week following the banning of the Assembly elections by the British Government and requested that a special debate be facilitated here during the course of this week ...
Our questions were not accommodated earlier and are not being accommodated now.
No. With respect, the Taoiseach has not properly answered the very sound arguments put. Question put: “That the proposal for dealing with No. 18 be agreed.” Tá
Given that there is a serious legislative backlog in the health area, why does the list of Bills to be published up to the summer recess contain only one Bill from the Minister for Health and Children...
What is the delay? When will we see the health (complaints) Bill, the nurses Bill, and the medical practitioners Bill?
The health (complaints) Bill was on last autumn's programme.
Freedom of Information Act 1997 Regulations 2003: Motion.
Once again, a very important motion is being referred to a committee without debate in this House.
I am objecting to it not being debated in this House.
I am opposing the procedure because I believe it should be debated. I am not opposing the motion. Question put and agreed to.
Northern Ireland Issues: Statements.
Both the Irish and British Governments have been engaged in a charade since 13 April. In this charade the two Governments have pretended in public that the IRA's unprecedented statement of that date, ...
Why have the elections been postponed?
Written Answers. - Tax Code.
Asked the minister: his views on the concept of the proposed Tobin tax on international currency speculation and similar unproductive transactions and the plan to use the proceeds for progressive development and eliminat...
Written Answers. - Foreign Conflicts.
Asked the minister: if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Irish national flag is reported, in the broadcast media, to have been displayed on a British Army armoured vehicle in Iraq during the course of the...
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