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Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: I refer to the public health Bill. I have been told we have a plan in place yet there is only one doctor out of hours in the whole country. There is one doctor per 250,000 people in the UK. We have a plan but like all the other plans in health, we do not have the personnel to carry it out.

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: We have been told the 'flu will be here next week.

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: I do not want to panic people-----

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: I want people to be reassured that the plans we have are workable because the personnel are in place to make them work.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: I am sorry to interrupt. On a point of information, what did the Minister of State say about Deputy Ó Caoláin's contribution?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: Not at all, but did the Minister of State say it was the only contribution?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: This is the end of Second Stage. We have all made our contributions prior to this.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: I wanted to put that on the record of the House.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: I thank the Minister of State-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: -----magnanimously.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: I do not want to detract from Deputy Ó Caoláin's contribution.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

James Reilly: If not The Echo in Tallaght.

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (6 May 2009)

James Reilly: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the report of the inquiry into the deaths of persons (details supplied) in view of the fact that it has been finished since October 2008 at considerable cost to the taxpayer, and the importance of the report in the context of the lack of social services and the continuing risk to families and children in...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 May 2009)

James Reilly: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, further to a newspaper report (details supplied), the Health Information and Quality Authority quality review of the remaining seven cancer centres has been completed; if she has received a copy of these reports; if she has been briefed on the findings of these reports; if these reports will be published; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (6 May 2009)

James Reilly: Question 421: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the provision of a social welfare office for Balbriggan where unemployment is in the thousands and where there appears to be still no permanent social welfare office despite there being many commercial premises close to public transport available to lease there; and if she will make a statement on this...

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

James Reilly: There are two issues. Will the planning and development Bill, which is on the clár, address management companies and the councils' failure to take estates in charge? As Deputy Costello has pointed out, services are deteriorating and estates are being led by management companies five, six, seven or eight years after their completion.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

James Reilly: Last week, 398 people were lying on trolleys and last year, 216,000 bed days were lost, which is the equivalent of St. James's Hospital being closed for a year.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

James Reilly: When will the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill, which has been repeatedly promised in the past, return to this House and when will its provisions be put in place? I hope it will address the issue of such delayed discharges. There are 250 unused beds available within the community in the greater Dublin area.

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

James Reilly: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Brian Hayes, on tabling this motion and for allowing us the opportunity to speak to it. The record of the Government when it comes to the most vulnerable in our society is appalling. One need only remind oneself of the long hard struggle in which sufferers of cystic fibrosis had to engage to ensure that their oft-promised facilities at St. Vincent's...

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

James Reilly: I appeal to the Minister to see sense and save the €7 million somewhere else out of his €8.9 billion budget. He cannot do it again at the expense of the most vulnerable in our society. If he does, the people, and of Fingal in particular, will remember that Fianna Fáil in government meant bail-outs for the banks but hardship for the hard pressed. Where are the three Government Deputies...