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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: I do not wish to be asked to leave the House but I do not want to see any more people with cystic fibrosis die unnecessarily in this country.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: I believe the House and the Taoiseach should give serious consideration to the matter raised.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: I thank the Taoiseach for his earlier comments about cystic fibrosis and that he will clarify the situation for the House tomorrow, through the Tánaiste. However, if any further indication were needed for us to accept we have a very dysfunctional and broken health service, it is the reports today that people awaiting cancer treatment cannot proceed with that treatment because they cannot...

Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: -----and others, including a lady with multiple myeloma and another person awaiting transplant cannot proceed with their treatment or transplant until they get dental treatment. The GMS and the payments board have Paddy Burke writing to dentists telling them-----

Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: Perhaps we could do that as well. I merely point out that No. 63, the Bill on eligibility for the health and personal social services, will have very little meaning if this sort of behaviour continues and patients cannot access services-----

Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: -----that are lifesaving.

Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: There is, a Cheann Comhairle.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: According to the list of amendments, the first amendment is in my name.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: "6.—From the commencement of this Act any review of services, including those of any land and buildings, at Saint Luke's Hospital, must be laid before the Dáil and the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children by the Minister for approval.". I do not wish to delay the House unduly on this amendment....

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: I remind the Minister what I and Deputy Creighton have already told the House her words to me when I said I would table an amendment on Report Stage to have any review of services or new plans for St. Luke's Hospital brought before the committee by the Minister. This would allow Members to have their say and act on the basis of full information. The Minister told me she was happy to agree...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: How many breast surgeons does Letterkenny General Hospital have?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: I would be delighted to tell the Minister precisely what I said and I am sure Deputy Perry will back this up. I said that if there is a change of Government soon and I hope there will be-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: Depending on the amount of time that passes, if the staff with expertise are gone, it will be very difficult to reinstate the service. If the staff and all the services are still there-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: -----that is a different matter entirely. The Minister is a great woman at reframing the question. She stood up and waxed lyrical about the cancer strategy when what is being discussed here is an amendment to a specific Bill on the future use of the lands, facilities and buildings at St. Luke's Hospital.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: However, since she has decided to go down the route she has taken, I will certainly challenge what she has said. She said that the commitment on the cervical cancer vaccine was not reneged upon and merely delayed, and that all those who should have got it will get it. I remind her of her original promise to the House, which was that everybody aged from 13 to 15 would get it. Will they get...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: The Minister can wag her head all she wants. Furthermore, she very conveniently neglected to mention her failed and utterly discredited co-location hospital policy. Regarding cystic fibrosis, it is the Minister's duty not just to apportion funds, but also to ensure that those funds are used for the purposes for which they have been allocated and that tendering processes etc. are done in a...

Patient Safety: Motion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: I take this opportunity to sympathise again with the women, their spouses and their families affected by the misdiagnoses at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. The Minister referred last night to being serious about patient safety. If she is serious, how can she stand over overcrowded accident and emergency units, a situation she promised four years ago to treat as a national emergency? This...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (30 Jun 2010)

James Reilly: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of headshops which have reopened since he announced a criminal ban on a list of headshop products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25778/10]

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

James Reilly: This issue is not limited to Limerick because it also arises in Cabra.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

James Reilly: These are the most vulnerable people in society and their elderly parents are doing the State a considerable service by looking after them. By closing respite care facilities, we are now taking away the bit of help we can offer. It is penny wise but pound foolish and it must be addressed before the Houses rises for the summer or else these people will be left without respite for the rest of...