James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

I move:

That Dáil Éireann,

noting the failure of the Government to implement the recommendations of the Pollock report;

recognising the serious deficit in isolation units and the shortage of specialist cystic fibrosis staff;

noting the failure of the Government to secure funding for the implementation of the recommendations of A Vision for Change;

acknowledging that mental health services remain chronically understaffed, under resourced and inaccessible, and

noting the imminent threat to critical frontline hospital services in the north east;

calls on the Government to:

deliver on its commitment to develop adequate cystic fibrosis services;

fulfil its promise to implement the recommendations of A Vision for Change;

request an urgent report from the Health Service Executive on any proposals to reduce frontline services throughout the country;

to ensure that, at a time when an additional €1 billion was allocated to the HSE, frontline services are not further reduced; and

fulfil its commitment to deliver an additional 3,000 public-only hospital beds.

I wish to share time with Deputies Alan Shatter, Denis Naughten, Deirdre Clune, Tom Hayes and Olwyn Enright.

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