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Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: I would like to express my sympathies to the families of the two Polish men who were savagely murdered in Dublin recently. Will the Tánaiste and the Minster for Health and Children, who are both in attendance, ensure that houses built under the social housing Act will be occupied?

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Currently, a €7 million facility in St. James's Hospital is being left idle.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: It is mismanagement of the highest order. If financial savings are to be made, they should be made at management level and not at the expense of the homeless and the most vulnerable in society.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Where are the promised reports to the House?

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Yesterday, the Minister for Health and Children was not present to answer Deputy Gilmore's questions because she was at the Select Committee on Health and Children with me, but she is now present. On 6 November, she promised the House the reports by the end of November. The Ann O'Doherty report remains hidden behind the legal fig leaf.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: It is not good enough for the people of the country or the women who have suffered as a consequence of events.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: It is not in order that the reports are not available.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: On a point of order, I think this is an important issue that may lead to people experiencing problems in the supply of their medication this weekend. The least we can expect is a quorum in the House so I am calling for one. Notice taken that 20 Members were not present; House counted and 20 Members being present,

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: That is not true.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister has just contradicted herself. She wants a new contract negotiated and no changes to occur in the current contract. Is changing remuneration not a basic and major change in any contract? She would, of course, say she does not accept that, but she will find herself in a minority. The survey carried out by the HSE was answered by something like 18 pharmacists, out of 1,600....

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: The Deputy did not clarify it.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: I will be interested to hear the version of the truth that comes from the Deputy.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: I certainly will.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: This morning's statements, apart from highlighting the situation, appear to be somewhat meaningless and we have had a vote on the Order of Business already. What should be before the House is a motion calling on the IPU and the HSE to stand back from any precipitative action that would endanger continuity of supply of medicines to the most vulnerable in our society, that is, the elderly, the...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: I imagine quite a number of rural pharmacists will go down.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Deputy Seymour Crawford is right because that seems to be the modus operandi of this Government, whether it is minorities, such as people with cystic fibrosis, children with autism waiting for assessment, the homeless, or people with mental health, who have co-located hospitals built on the site of their psychiatric unit while continuing to be treated in an open ward with 23 people where...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: It is a disgrace and the Minister has disgraced herself by allowing private business to supersede the needs of the most vulnerable in our society.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: The reality is that what has been attempted does not address the real issue the Minister has raised, which is the margin that wholesalers have, because as she already pointed out the HSE cannot negotiate with wholesalers nor the wholesalers with the HSE, because of the wonderful competition law. The HSE misled the Joint Committee on Health and Children by telling it that it had a letter from...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: It was sent to me this morning. It had been sent to the newspapers but not published.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: That is correct.