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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: How long is the transitional period?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Is there any other category of worker in the health service who would be afforded such a transitional period in respect of something as basic as doing one's paperwork and signing off properly on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Could I be given an example?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I rather suspect that there are those who work for the HSE who would not accept that it is the modus operandi when dealing with them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Does that agreement set out the transitional phase?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that but what is the position on getting to that point?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Tony O'Brien has told me there is a transitional phase to coax the outliers into compliance. Is it just a general understanding that they will be brought along gradually, or did that form the basis of the agreement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I would anticipate that but, in respect of the transitional phase for those who are not yet in compliance, Mr. Tony O’Brien has told me there is a gradual bringing along of the consultants to have them comply with the 20-day period. Is that just how the matter is being handled rather than a term of the agreement that was struck with the consultants?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: "Transition" was Mr. O'Brien's word, not mine. The agreement the HSE has with them was signed eight months ago. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, I know; I am just checking the date, which was eight months ago. We are in a transitional phase and there has been gentle coaxing but no disciplinary action.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: That is fine, but my point is that eight months after an agreement was signed, which states clearly the 14 working day rule, the HSE is still not at that point by some margin. There has been no official sanction in that respect. I want to mark for Mr. O'Brien the clear contrast about which I am certain in the treatment of this issue for this set of workers and other workers within the HSE...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I am referring not so much to the content of the report or the medical evidence that may emerge over time and that which has emerged but to the initial phases. I understood from Mr. Halappanavar that one of his primary worries at the outset stemmed from the fact that he had made contact with the HSE. His wife had died and had been brought back home to be buried. He had heard nothing from...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2011 (25 Apr 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Will the HSE, as an institution and as a body, learn lessons from it?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Twenty one years ago the case of a raped 14 year old child brought into being the judgment in the X case. From that time to this, we have awaited a legal clarification of an existing right for pregnant women to avail of termination of pregnancy where their lives are in danger. For 21 years medical professionals who care for those women have also waited for legal clarification and protection...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I want him to reassure us that the legislation has not become a hostage to fortune in some kind of political stand off between Fine Gael and the Labour Party. I want him to confirm that he remains resolved to ensure this legislation is brought before the Oireachtas and put on the Statute Book by the time we rise for the summer recess. I want him to reassure medical professionals and, in...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: From the Taoiseach's response, I imagine that the issue of legislation on X must have been 28th on the agenda, or perhaps it was dealt with under any other business.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I do not appreciate the tone of the Taoiseach's response. He knows as well as I do the urgency in bringing forward the heads of a Bill. The fact that it will not be finished legislation is all the more reason for the Oireachtas to see it and for it to proceed to committee without delay so that a full and frank debate can proceed. I have a worry, which I know is shared by others, that what...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I understand fully that the legislation, when it comes before the House-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----will simply-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----legislate that which is already lawful.