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Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: A Cheann Comhairle,-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: On an entirely different matter, each time at Order of Business Members raise issues-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: -----and try to investigate or get some information, we are advised by the Ceann Comhairle that there is another route, which is to table a parliamentary question. Often these parliamentary questions are not answered by the Minister but sent off down the line, and in my case usually to the HSE. However, today we reach a new low in the democracy and the running of this Parliament which...

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, let me finish.

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: The Ceann Comhairle can instruct the General Office that there can be no editing without consultation with those who submit the question. This is utterly undemocratic and totally unacceptable and is further evidence of the Government clawing onto power-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: -----using every ruse possible to deprive the people of information. It amounts to censorship.

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Before we proceed, I did not get an answer from the Ceann Comhairle, to whom the questions office is answerable. What undertaking will be given to the House that he will rectify the matter, if any?

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: You have notice now and I am offering you an opportunity to reassure the House that you will act on it and underscore democracy, not undermine it.

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Will the Ceann Comhairle respond later?

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the precautions being taken to protect patients from cross infection from swine flu and other hospital infections in view of the number of patients waiting on trolleys in accident and emergency; the additional capacity put in place to deal with the winter increase in hospital admissions; the way she will defend the closure of beds when...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I wish the Minister a happy new year in her first Question Time of the new year - possibly her last if I hear correctly what is going on outside. As I raised this issue with you this morning, a Cheann Comhairle, I will now read into the record of the Dáil the question I put and not the question that was issued by the General Office: To ask the Minister for Health and Children in view of the...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: We will keep moving all right, the Ceann Comhairle need not worry about that. I want to correct the Minister. The figures that I gave in this House are totally at variance with how she can say matters have improved significantly. The figures come from the INMO site. They may be at variance with those of the HSE which has driven the emergency room consultants to draw their own numbers up as...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I will ask a supplementary question. Why is it not possible to open more beds? Why, when the Minister is paying out €1.1 billion annually in overtime and allowances, can she not take some money away from that through proper organisation - overtime should be an exception - and use it to temporarily open beds? Why has the Minister not brought in generic drugs prescribing and drugs...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: -----do not get admitted, are not waiting on admissions and are not counted as persons lying on trolleys. They are people in for a test and they then leave. The sad point on which I will finish is that the bulk of the on average 464 patients each day this year are sitting on plastic chairs with IV drips hanging out of them, in distress, with no privacy and exposed to cross-infection. That...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I would try to keep it short if I could get answers to questions that were based in reality, not in cloud cuckoo land fantasy.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Nothing I ever said has not been repeated by the Minister's document.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I will cite the Minister three incidents and I will send them in writing to her and the Ceann Comhairle.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Massaged by the HSE.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Including the patients.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Including the prescription charge, which I do still.