Results 4,601-4,620 of 15,805 for speaker:Michael Ring
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: I ask the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, to correct the record of this Dáil. On a number of occasions she has given incorrect figures regarding the level of surgery in Mayo General Hospital. Today, the general manager has faxed information to her officials. If the officials are not giving the Minister the correct number of cases, then she had better do something about...
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: That is what I was told by Deputy Hayes.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: We have not hear much from Deputy Hoctor in her job as Minister of State for the past few years. I ask her to be quiet for a few moments and let me complete my few words.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
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- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: I want to tell the Minister why the women and people of Mayo have no confidence in her and no confidence in going to Galway. I shall give two or three simple examples. There is a woman in the Visitors Gallery tonight who had to go on local radio this morning, crying and praying for her loved one, who is in a very bad state in Mayo General Hospital for the last number of weeks, waiting for a...
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: Many of them want to be at home in Mayo looking after their children. Many of them are not particularly well and they would prefer to be in Mayo. The reason they are here is that they went through Mayo General Hospital. We have excellent surgeons in Mr. Kevin Barry, Dr. Mary Casey and Mr. Ronan Waldron and the Minister is now going to remove our surgeons from Mayo to Galway, although...
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: In another case, a woman constituent who became ill has four family members working in very senior jobs in the HSE throughout the country. The decision they made about their mother was that she would not going into any hospital in this country, because they were afraid she would contract MRSA. That is the confidence the people of Ireland have in the health service, and in the Minister and...
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: The Minister, Deputy Harney, talks about leadership. I want to ask Deputies Beverley Flynn, Dara Calleary, Eamon Scanlon and Jimmy Devins not to mind the Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, and Fianna Fáil. Come with us and show we want the service retained in Mayo General Hospital, and in Sligo, with a satellite service in Letterkenny, because the service is better in those centres than that...
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: The Minister can do it later in her own time.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: He is earning â¬600,000.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: I shall take on the Minister in any quarter in any place. We have had enough of her for the last six or seven years. She has failed as Minister and we have had enough of her.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: The manager sent up the figures.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: I have the facts and I know the facts.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: This is not true.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: They are not true.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: The Minister should ask what they were told in Castlebar.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: The Minister of State should go away.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: This is the reason there are so many tribunals.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: Hear, hear.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Michael Ring: If he actually has a deal.