Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to make herself accountable to the Dáil for the continuing impact of cuts imposed by the HSE; to take action to prevent the further cuts of €300 million threatened by the HSE chief executive, Professor Brendan Drumm; to set out where she considers redundancies should take place, given her statement that the HSE should adopt a redundancy programme, especially in the light of the impact on patient care of current staffing restrictions and the Labour Court ruling that the HSE was in breach of Towards 2016 and the EU information and consultation directive in the manner in which it introduced, without prior consultation, staffing restrictions in September 2007.

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