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Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank Senator Fitzgerald for sharing her time with me. I welcome the Minister to the House. I wish to raise with the Minister today the pharmacy crisis in the west. The Department and Health Service Executive is currently swamping pharmacists with litigation injunctions. It was confirmed to me yesterday by senior sources that there is no contingency plan for the distribution of medicines...

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: All of the pharmacies are pulling out of the community services contract. I am informed the HSE in these local areas have been told to order in medications. Where will they be stored and who will dispense them safely? Where are the labels and computers required for labelling? What is required is a controlled professional environment. Who is familiar with patients' allergies? What will...

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Anecdotal evidence suggests the civil defence forces will be used to try to mobilise medication.

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is the anecdotal evidence. I ask that the Minister confirm today her contingency plan for the safe distribution of medication as of 1 May.

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What about the dispensing after 1 May?

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Who will dispense?

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are already waiting.

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have the letters.

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Minister have any contingency plans?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister for Health and Children when dealing with the issue of patient safety in the House yesterday presented global figures that suggested all was well. I seek guidance on this issue because I am at a loss to know where we can get direct answers to specific questions. All the local crises do not add up to everything being acceptable globally. This morning and in recent days I was...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, I am seeking the guidance of the Leader on this matter. There is no equity in our health system. These cutbacks represent policy that is penny-wise and pound foolish. Dialysis patients have a transport service but they are regularly late for their clinic visits. The local taximan who provided these patients with a transport service for 28 years has been cut off in terms of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: These cutbacks are damaging the health of these people, which amounts to another crisis. This was what I was told by one GP in Lenane in Connemara. She said to me that if I contacted others who are affected the story would be the same. I ask the Leader for guidance as to how best to handle this matter. Should we invite back to the House the Minister for Health and Children to address...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects: Motion (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects: Motion (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Predictive.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects: Motion (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The involvement of councils in the process is very new.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects: Motion (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister to the House. I support the motion tabled by the Independent Senators. It is well constructed and offers good guidance to the Department of Education and Science. I have known for some time that the schools building programme is not working adequately. I accept the Minister has invested and continues to invest money in schools. Clearly, based on population needs and...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects: Motion (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is failing communities, teachers and pupils. I want to use this opportunity to provide the Minister with evidence the schools building programme is not working. It is in many ways a national disaster. I also want to be helpful by proposing some solutions which I ask the Minister, in her privileged role, to consider. It became evident during last week's meeting of the Committee of Public...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects: Motion (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: As a teaching practice supervisor some years ago in Briarhill national school, Galway, a child could not pass by me to go to the toilet without knocking my folder off my knee. The pupils had no space to move. It was impossible to implement discovery active methods of a revised curriculum. Those pupils and teachers are now located in a business unit in Briarhill business park while their...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects: Motion (23 Apr 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Why are they in these conditions?