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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (20 May 2010)

Bernard Durkan: That is typical.

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Bernard Durkan: Which comes first?

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Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

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Bernard Durkan: That sounds extraordinary.

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Bernard Durkan: I fully support the reservations expressed by a number of colleagues on this side of the House. This is a matter I have brought to the Ceann Comhairle's attention many times. We need to revert to the situation that used to prevail in the House. Ministers used to answer questions, reply to Adjournment matters and appear in the House without taking the long absences that some current...

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Bernard Durkan: I thank the Tánaiste. We appreciate it.

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Bernard Durkan: Even an occasional guest appearance would be useful.

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Bernard Durkan: The Ceann Comhairle has been very helpful to me in the past and often has advised me to table a parliamentary question. I have followed his advice and have tabled repeatedly the same parliamentary question in respect of the same subject, only to receive the same answer. The answer reads, "If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me...

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Bernard Durkan: -----in the vain hope that something will happen and that the Minister for Health and Children will begin to answer questions that have not been answered for the past four months. I also wish to mention an issue about which there is relevant legislation to which I will refer shortly, namely, when the HSE-----

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Bernard Durkan: I am not embellishing.

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Bernard Durkan: I outlining the facts. When the HSE received its devolved powers from the Department of Health and Children, a separate parliamentary affairs division was established. What is that division doing at present?

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Bernard Durkan: Countless constituents of all Members of this House-----

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Bernard Durkan: While I will tell the Ceann Comhairle the legislation to which I refer, I would not want to give let him know too soon. Many people outside this House are wondering at present-----

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Bernard Durkan: -----what is the answer to this question. I once again ask the Ceann Comhairle to help me.

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Bernard Durkan: I ask the Tánaiste, through the Ceann Comhairle, whether the health information Bill could be introduced, even secretly, into the House in order that Members could examine it and perhaps have a debate on it. Perhaps the Minister might follow on, along with the Bill, in an effort to provide some explanation.

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Bernard Durkan: Does the Ceann Comhairle realise the seriousness of the predicament I am in?

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Bernard Durkan: Must Members then wait until later this year before the people who are suffering while awaiting hip operations and all the other things such as the processing of medical cards, appeals of all descriptions, rent supports and mortgage supports-----

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Bernard Durkan: Must Members wait-----

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Bernard Durkan: So, the answer is "No" and Members will not see it in this session.

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Bernard Durkan: It is not going to happen this session.