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Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (26 Apr 2007)

Liz McManus: No. I started with the word "if". It was a long paragraph and the Minister of State must have nodded off in the middle of it. I do not blame him for that as I have done the same on occasion.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (26 Apr 2007)

Liz McManus: Yes. A terrible tragedy has just occurred and others will occur unless we change the way we provide protection for children and supports. It is about protecting against abuse and the effects of mental illness. The wider community must have an understanding of those risks and dangers. If anything comes out of this tragedy which leads to a greater understanding of, and more discussion in...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2007)

Liz McManus: I welcome that and I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (26 Apr 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on claims that there are anomalies with regard to the administration of the work permits scheme in regard to non-EU doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12004/07]

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (26 Apr 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the Health and Safety Authority report that found inadequate health and safety procedures in most of the hospitals visited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12078/07]

Order of Business (26 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: Do value for money on it.

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion. (26 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: I wish to respond to what the Minister, Deputy Mary Harney, said and I am sorry she is not in the House. In her reply to the Fine Gael motion she took the opportunity yet again to promote myths and I regard it as important to put the record straight. She referred to Professor Drumm and stated she had never heard his view on this project. I quote him: We have to be extremely careful that we...

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion. (26 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: It is usual to congratulate a new Minister for Health and Children at the start of a Dáil, and I am more than happy to wish Deputy Harney well on her return to what is clearly a demanding post. However, I also wish that she would take some time to reflect. As a Deputy who saw her party decimated, she will understand that it has suffered most cruelly at the hands of the voters. Is it too...

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (26 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he proposes to have the Revenue Commissioners carry out a detailed examination of the number of properties availing of licensing and similar arrangements for the purposes of avoiding stamp duty; if the Revenue Commissioners have carried out an estimate of the amount of stamp duty avoided each year from the year 2002 to date in...

Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the disclosure that the Health Service Executive handed back almost €100 million in unspent money to the Exchequer in 2006; the amount returned in 2005; the amount spent to date in 2007; the projects submitted to the HSE in 2005, 2006, 2007 related to new hospital beds, step-down beds and new hospital equipment and their...

Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: I congratulate the Ceann Comhairle and promise to obey him as best I can.

Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: Does the Minister not feel she should hang her head in shame? The news is worse than what was published in the papers. In 2006, €114 million of the capital fund was unspent and that is truly shocking. We have just heard about dialysis patients in Limerick who are unable to access dialysis at a reasonable time of day and there are similar needs across the country. Does the Minister...

Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: Unfortunately, the story is still the same.

Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: The health budget in Ireland is different to other countries because there is a large element of social funding. It seems the Minister has not changed her tune either. She is relying again on private consultants to the tune of €100 million in terms of what will be done in the health service. While we all understand that not all projects proceed on time, does the Minister accept that...

Health Service Funding. (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: Yes, it went back to the Department of Finance.

Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: I thank the Minister for clarifying her statement because she accepts that there is deep anxiety among many paediatricians who have given their working lives to the care of children and have expressed very strong concerns about her policy on this hospital. Does she accept we do not live in an ideal city? Transport congestion is a serious block to children accessing care. Rather than seeing...

Hospital Waiting Lists. (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: A new boy.

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: Will the Minister of State give way? I raised an issue regarding the 2005 directive and asked the Minister to outline the statutory basis for that letter.

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: I thank the Minister of State.

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Liz McManus: I ask the Minister of State to give way and allow me to make a point.