Results 381-400 of 4,404 for speaker:Liz McManus

Nursing Home Charges. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: Perhaps the question Deputy Twomey wanted to ask is the same as mine. To what cases is the Minister referring? The suspicion is that the legal advice is deliberately being kept hidden, even from the Oireachtas committee charged with the duty of examining the issue in terms of administrative and legislative change. The Minister is giving us a job of work to do without providing the tools to do...

Nursing Home Charges. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: Surely that is not true. If former Minister, John Boland, was able to bring forward a proposal to Cabinet, presumably he had taken advice from the Attorney General in some shape or form. Has the Minister asked the person who took over from John Boland as Minister, the Ceann Comhairle, Deputy O'Hanlon, why the battle was not resolved at that point as the Minister states it should have been?...

Precautions against Influenza. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: Just give me the opportunity.

Health Service Staff. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: It is a great pity that the Minister is going back to the tried and trusted formula of referring to plans, reports and strategies. We are aware of the shortfall in terms of the need for neurologists because almost two years ago Comhairle na nOspidéal produced a report which stated that the number of neurologists had to be trebled to meet the need. Will the Minister stick to the question?...

Health Service Staff. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: Will the Minister tell the House if we have a new chief executive officer? It is an issue in which many people would be interested. The Minister of State, Deputy O'Malley, kindly came to the launch of the website of the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association. There is an issue about funding for that association. Will the Minister examine that?

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: Is the Minister aware of how bad the situation has got? There were 34 people, an unprecedented number, on trolleys at the University College Hospital in Galway last night, even though 68 beds in the hospital were closed. Although the Minister visited the hospital recently, I am not convinced that she is aware of the real situation in Galway. It is symptomatic of the real and persisting...

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: The Minister said there will be a significant difference.

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: No, that is not the reason.

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: That is not why they were closed.

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: I understand that the wards in Galway have not been closed because of an outbreak of flu. It would be possible to open a certain number of beds if cleaners were employed to ensure that hygiene standards are maintained to a high level. That would relieve significantly the pressure on the hospital. I do not know whether the Minister has studied the number of hospital beds which have closed...

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: They are doing it as a protest.

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: They do not need lectures about their duties.

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: That is a non sequitur.

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: That is a total non sequitur.

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: The information to be gathered by the Health and Safety Authority will be ready by 8 April. I presume the Tánaiste will publish the information in which there will be great public interest. Since she abolished the health boards we have had no forum to ensure that information of this type is disseminated. Will she ensure it is? What is the position on capital projects for hospitals this year?...

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: It is relevant to accident and emergency services and has direct relevance to my question.

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, arising from the Travers report, there was any record in her Department regarding the reason the new Minister for Health who took over in March 1987 decided not to proceed with legislation that had been prepared by his predecessor, Mr. John Boland, aimed at regularising the situation in regard to the charging of long...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, arising from the Travers report, any investigation has been held in her Department to determine the location of the file prepared by the Secretary General for submission to the Attorney General, but which was never received in the Attorney General's office, in regard to the illegal charging of long stay patients and,...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (23 Mar 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has a responsibility to provide maternity services to all women here who need them; and the provision which is made for a woman who cannot reach a maternity hospital in time due to distance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9610/05]

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Liz McManus: I wish to share time with Deputies Moynihan-Cronin, Lynch and O'Sullivan. I would also like to share my chance of life with them but cannot because I am the only female Labour Party Deputy present who can avail of free breast cancer screening. The reason is that I happen to live in Leinster while my colleagues live in Munster. BreastCheck has been available in County Wicklow where I live for...