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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 May 2009)

James Reilly: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason video fluoroscopy equipment was not available at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, on the week of 18 May 2009 (details supplied); the arrangements in place to make such examinations available if a machine has broken down; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21925/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2009)

James Reilly: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can expect to have surgery carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21926/09]

Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: On inter-country adoption, does the Adoption Bill passed by the Seanad make provision to address the current impasse which is affecting families who are waiting adoptions from Vietnam and other countries? The civil union Bill was promised this session. With only weeks of the session left, when can we expect to have sight of this legislation?

Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: It will come before the House before the summer recess.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: What about the negative equity? What bothers them even more is negative equity.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: The Government has the courage to pick on the terminally ill.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: Not under the Taoiseach's tutorage.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: The health system does not need more resources.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: People listened and voted accordingly.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: It has not been stirred into action either.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: Hear, hear.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: I want to correct a number of misapprehensions about this debate. Fine Gael sought to table the motion during Private Members' time, but the Government decided to make it a Government motion, thereby moving the discussion on the Ryan report to the following two days. None the less, this is an important confidence motion on the Government. It is time that Members on the Government side...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: He also knows that it was his party leader's comments on people voting for excessive rezonings that were the councillor's downfall. One thousand extra houses were to be built in Rush where there is no sewerage system to facilitate them, where they are not supported by the infrastructure and where the people oppose them. The Minister got his message.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: I am happy to say that Fine Gael has a new councillor in the area. The plan will be reviewed substantially downwards. The Green Party espoused great things in terms of education and reducing class sizes, yet it has presided over the opposite.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: We have spent millions of euro on maintaining empty bus corridors, but the Green Party-aided Government has reduced bus numbers further. The party discusses running with the hare and chasing with the hound. It is chasing with the hound, but a larger pack is after it, namely, the Irish people, so the Green Party had better watch out. How much time have I remaining?

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle let me know when I have two minutes remaining?

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: Let us consider the area with which I am most concerned. While I am concerned with education, transport and law and order, I am more concerned with health.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: Consider the Government's promises. In 2007, the programme for Government stated: The recent development of a cervical cancer vaccine opens up the possibility of effectively ending cervical cancer within a few generations. We believe it should be available as a universal public health entitlement once recommended by experts. The experts recommended it and the Minister announced it, but she...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: The 2007 programme for Government stated that the Government would implement "plans for co-located facilities because this represents the quickest and most effective way of ensuring that public capacity is both increased and ring-fenced". The Minister, Deputy Mary Harney, announced her co-location plan on 14 July 2005. Four years on, not a single one of the 1,000 beds which were promised is...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

James Reilly: -----so the likes of the institutional abuse of our children that took place in the past can never occur again.