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Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: The nurses are going to the United States and Australia.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: I asked a question that was not answered. It is important that there should be a debate in the House——

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: It was not answered.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: I appreciate that. I thanked the Ceann Comhairle at that time.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: I do not mean to be disorderly. I was very grateful to——

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: I am seeking a simple answer.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: I asked the Tánaiste if we could have a debate on the nursing crisis. I hope the Tánaiste——

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: ——appreciates the importance of such a debate.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: I hope the Tánaiste will agree to have a debate.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: The Tánaiste's failure to recognise the crisis is part of the problem.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: The Deputies on the Government side do not see any evil.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: Tuesday week. It was a tiny Bill that the Tánaiste talked about.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: It is a shame.

Industrial Disputes. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she is taking to protect patient care, in view of the decision by hospital consultants to ballot for industrial action; the outcome of the promised meeting of legal teams; if she has satisfied herself that proper tendering procedures were used in the procurement of the State indemnity scheme; and if she will...

Industrial Disputes. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: I thank the Minister for her reply. It is regrettable that the hospital consultants are threatening this action. Does the Minister not accept, however, that doctors are extremely anxious and concerned at the situation in which they find themselves? They understood at first that they had cover from the MDU that turned out in practice to be discretionary, which let them down badly. They fear...

Industrial Disputes. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: Will the Minister assure us that a legally binding guarantee will be given to patients as well as doctors to resolve the immediate problems of potential industrial action? The Minister has not answered my question about the MPS and the historic liabilities. Will she publish the secret deal made with the MPS? Does she not accept that the problem is the large claims in obstetrics? While it may...

Industrial Disputes. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: The Minister has not responded to my question. What about the historic liabilities of the MPS?

Nursing Home Subventions. (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: I also know of cases where people have been pauperised. They are dependent on the enhanced subvention and find that the cost of nursing home care is increasing to the point where they can no longer pay the bill. Will the Minister of State look at the number of discretionary payments being made over and above the limits? I suspect the numbers are very small. I am in contest with the East Coast...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards issued as of 30 September 2004; the latest date for which figures are available; the reason the number of medical card holders continues to decline having regard to the pledge in An Agreed Programme for Government to extend eligibility to bring in another 200,000 people and commitment given on...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (10 Feb 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the serious concern expressed by those organisations dealing with persons with a mental illness about the decision to relocate the Central Mental Hospital to the same campus as the proposed new prison in Thorntown, County Dublin; if, in view of the belief expressed that such a move would...