Results 361-380 of 4,085 for speaker:Dan Boyle

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: I have two questions. First, when will the third arm of the Government's promised programme on disability legislation come before the House? Is the Government waiting for the Second Stage of the Disability Bill to finish or be withdrawn before we have a debate on the Comhairle (Amendment) Bill? I am not sure whether the Tánaiste will be able to answer my second question as we are rarely...

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: I notice the Tánaiste did not answer Deputy Twomey's question on the closure of the accident and emergency department at Cork University Hospital a fortnight ago. While 30 people were on trolleys in the department, dozens more were turned away. The senior consultant at the department, Mr. Stephen Cusack, described the scenario as one involving the sending away of walking wounded. Does the...

Hospital Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the resignation of a consultant oncologist from the staff of Cork University Hospital, ostensibly due to the failure to establish a dedicated cancer ward at the hospital; and if she has satisfied herself that cancer care facilities in the southern region are properly resourced. [9437/05]

Hospital Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: Not only is there a delay in the roll-out of the BreastCheck programme but the Tánaiste should be aware of the uncertainty of the future of the children's leukaemia unit at the Mercy University Hospital. These things taken together mean that cancer treatment in the Cork city area and the Cork and Kerry regions is facing a most uncertain future. Will the Tánaiste use the opportunity of her...

Hospital Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: What about the leukaemia unit?

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: As my party colleague, Deputy Cuffe, has already stated, the Green Party supports this motion calling for the establishment of a tribunal of inquiry into the deaths of Superintendents Breen and Buchanan and possible Garda collusion. It is somewhat ironic that one of the two murder victims shares the surname of a relatively iconic figure in Irish history who participated in the War of...

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: What about the UK? What about Northern Ireland? They are our nearest neighbours.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: It has banned fox fur.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: Like Waterville?

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: Sounds like Heaven.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: There are just six farms.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: It has happened. It happened in Waterville.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister of State should refer to the escapes that occurred.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: It is €1.9 million, according to the Minister of State.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Deputy should quote the correct figure.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: One-third of my constituency is rural.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: One-thirtieth of 1% is tiny.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: That is the industry's turnover.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: I can be louder.

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: That is not the CSO figure.