Results 5,041-5,060 of 26,864 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: That is fine.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Leader and his office for arranging for statements on ambulance services in Dublin for today. It is useful that the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, will come in and set out his and the Government's position and deal with our questions. I welcome the fact there have been some discussions with union representatives from the Dublin Fire Brigade, DFB, ambulance services. I thank the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: He can.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: The Taoiseach should come here and answer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: A big cover-up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: The Taoiseach should not even be waiting for the report. He knows what he did that night. He should just come in and tell us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: He is hiding the truth.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I will withdraw the amendment on the basis that the issue of the Dublin fire brigade ambulance is important. I know the Leader has gone to some difficulty in this regard. However, what I said about the Taoiseach's role in this is also very important and I intend to table an amendment on another day if the Taoiseach refuses to come in to the House to address the matter.
- Seanad: Ambulance Services in Dublin: Statements (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I wish to share my time with Senators Averil Power and Mary White. I thank the Minister for coming into this House. We are restricted in the time we can speak on this issue. I raised this matter last week and I know that the Minister is personally supportive of the Dublin Fire Brigade ambulance service, as am I. There are a number of stations in my area of Swords-Skerries-Balbriggan. We...
- Seanad: Ambulance Services in Dublin: Statements (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: We should be examining the possibility of a combined emergency medical services, EMS, system. We should be utilising all our fire brigade bases across the country and do what is done in Dublin. We should support that even more, do it across the country and work with the members of the HSE ambulance crew, who do a really good job. My issue is with management and not with the people on the...
- Seanad: Ambulance Services in Dublin: Statements (10 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: They say emergency calls but I will not dispute it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I want to once again raise with the Leader the issue of the MS drug Fampyra, or fampridine, which I have been raising in this House since February 2014. I gave the Government advance notice that, from June of last year, people would have to pay for that drug. Since then, I have raised the issue here on numerous occasions, including directly with the Minister for Health in this House, with...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: That is true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I noted with interest yesterday and this morning the remarks of the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, on the Government announcement of free general practitioner care for over 70s. It would be welcome if we knew when it was going to happen and if we did not have a scenario like the free GP care for children under aged six, which was announced over two years ago but which still has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: We will check that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Well said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: That is nonsense.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: The Government should be ashamed of itself.