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- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Is that in line with the Data Commissioner's request about information?
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach cannot believe that.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I wish to share time with Deputy Mattie McGrath. I second the motion. In doing so, I bear the Minister no ill will. I am contributing to the debate on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party but also in recognition of the mess the Government has made in recent days and weeks of the delivery of health services in this country. I do not want to personalise this debate and it should not be...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I will be happy to deal with issues the Deputy has in due course. The Minister and Taoiseach, who was then Leader of the Opposition, visited County Clare and made firm commitments regarding the delivery of health services in the county. The Taoiseach talked about the retention of medical and cardiac services at Ennis General Hospital but, in recent weeks, the HSE recognised that they will...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I did because they were in the best interests of patient safety. However, I never hid behind the HSE. I never said, "We do not have the money and someone else caused the problem". I stood up unfettered and put the change forward because I thought it was the right thing to do.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Will the Minister do the same? Will he give Government backbenchers the wherewithal to explain the tough decisions that have to be taken and to say it is not a budgetary issue if that is the case and if services have to be reduced in a particular area, that this is being done from a patient safety point of view or in the best interests of the patient? If that is not the case and it does not...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The public had lost faith in the previous Government and was going to vote for the parties now in government anyway. However, they could not get over which of them would be Taoiseach, that is, whether it would be Deputy Kenny-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Deputy Coonan now has Nenagh hospital to deal with and I note he made some important commitments in that regard. However, Fine Gael and the Labour Party were trying to outwit each other and on a daily basis, the ladder was not high enough for them to climb onto to wave the next slogan, regardless of what it did to undermine the good people who work in the health service. They simply could...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I went before the electorate and they accepted me for it. It now depends on the Minister and his backbenchers to show a small amount of backbone, to stop hiding behind the facts and to come out and tell the truth.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Sitting on it, I would say.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister is looking for a fall-guy.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: On a point of clarification-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister has misrepresented what I said.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister has asked for clarification.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister has asked for clarification.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: On a point of order-----
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: On a point of order, am I correct in saying that if the Minister in the course of his contribution requests a speaker to provide information and gives way that person can provide the information? Is that not within the rules of the House?
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: I am ready to do so now.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: This Government is well haunted at this stage.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)
Timmy Dooley: Does the Deputy believe that?