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Child Protection: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2009)

Niall Collins: I favour the option set out by the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, to establish the independent inquiry within the HSE chaired by Ms Norah Gibbons. It is to report within six months and the report will be published. It is a four person inquiry team, with two external and two highly qualified internal persons. With that in mind, the internal inquiry of the HSE will not have any of...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (3 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3154/09]

Written Answers — Information Request: Information Request (3 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: Question 400: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will supply information (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3400/09]

Energy Prices: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: I wish to state the anger I felt and was expressed to me and other public representatives that the ESB voted for a price increase for itself when, in the last two weeks, my constituency and the neighbouring constituency of Limerick East experienced the loss of 1,900 jobs in Dell and 400 in Kostal. It is scandalous.

Energy Prices: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: There is a bigger issue regarding the salaries of our entire semi-State sector but it is a matter for another day. I welcome the comments made by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan on his expectation of a double digit price decrease in the cost of energy from the Commission for Energy Regulation. Various speakers have mentioned competitiveness...

Energy Prices: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: The window of opportunity for people to be included in the scheme was too short. Hopefully the next time it is offered to the public we will see a greater window of opportunity for people to apply for the scheme. Regarding schools, we have an opportunity, through our green agenda, to look at the recycling of rainwater. We had a debate in this House not so long ago on the application of...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: We must remember the context of any debate in this House in respect of the health service. All parties, with the exception of Sinn Féin, from the 1960s to the 1990s——

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: ——contributed to the demise of the health services. If we are honest we must ask what was the result. We had deficits in funding, infrastructure, human resources and strategy. Everything has had to play catch-up in the past 12 to 15 years. We must acknowledge the levels of funding now available. We have invested in our infrastructures. Hospitals are being built and improved. Our...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: —— there will be additional specialist services such as dermatology, neurology and rheumatology. There are plans to appoint eight——

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: ——additional hospital consultants. It is equally important to point out that Cathal O'Donnell and Paul Burke have a shared responsibility for the region, not only for the accident and emergency department in my local hospital, namely, the regional hospital. For Limerick Regional Hospital and its accident and emergency department, I welcome the fact that this initiative will deliver a new...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: It will be built but the Deputies do not wish to move forward at all. They just want to look backwards.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: We will move it forward.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: There will be an intensive care unit with an enhanced service and there will be a high dependency unit. With regard to the roll out of this plan it is also important to remember——

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: —— that the primary care centre——

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: The roll-out of primary care centre infrastructure is at an advanced stage in my constituency. I am glad to know this, as most people would be, with regard to their constituencies. To name a few, places such as Croom, Ballylanders, Caherconlish, and Cappaghmore that Deputy O'Donnell knows very well, are at a very advanced stage. The roll out of BreastCheck is also well received within the...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: Deputy O'Sullivan mentioned general practitioners. This is not a criticism but I would like to see more investment in GP training and more places for GP trainees in the mid west. We have had a number of female GPs who, due to life responsibilities and family circumstances, cannot work on a full-time basis and we need more training places. Any debate about the HSE showers that agency with...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: I had occasion to visit the accident and emergency department during the Christmas period.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: I shall tell Deputy Sheahan which door I used. I went in the door that led to the accident and emergency department and presented myself. There were 15 people ahead of me and I was No. 16. They were all seen within 25 minutes, I was seen within half an hour and nobody was on a trolley. I do not know how regular, or how liberal, is the use of that word "regular" but I believe it is abused.

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the names of the independent chairpersons of the hotel, catering and bar joint labour committees for both the Dublin area and outside Dublin; the persons who appointed the chairpersons; when the terms of their appointments are due to expire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4496/09]