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Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Minister should wake up. The Government is not transforming the health service. People are on waiting lists. There is a 1,000% increase in the numbers on waiting lists and the Government is ignorant of the problem. I cannot understand why the Minister for Health, who has the courage to tell it as it is, gets slapped down and those who were cheerleaders for this disaster - this crime...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: After three and a half years, what has the Government done?

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: From the end of 2011 on.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: what about 2014?

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: The national cultural institutions Bill, which is on the long list, will revise the governance arrangements for cultural institutions, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Will this Bill include provisions dealing with the short-term appointment of board members in order that they should qualify for Seanad elections? What is the Minister's view, as a Minister of considerable experience...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: -----of the charade that is occurring in the other House, with the appointment of a person to the board of a cultural institution which will come under the Bill to which I referred, in order to qualify that individual to stand for a Seanad by-election?

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: I have asked about a Bill.

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: I referred to the national cultural institutions Bill. In addition, an election to the other House is a matter of business for this House.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (24 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: 136. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive an MRI appointment for a rheumatoid arthritis ailment; if he will expedite the appointment in view of the fact that they have been referred since February 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35988/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Portfolio (25 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: 95. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the criteria chosen for the selection of Athlone, Letterkenny and Waterford by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland to develop new property solutions in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36367/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Portfolio (25 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: 96. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total moneys spent to date by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland on a property (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason there has been no development on the site; if the site was considered as part of the IDA capital plan for 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36368/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (25 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of discretionary medical cards that have been returned since 1 June 2014; if he will provide same in a tabular form on a monthly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36370/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Incidence (25 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: 217. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the total number of patients referred to the cancer centre at UCHG in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; the number of these patients who were in-patients and the average length of time they spent in UCHG; if he will outline in each of those years the ratio of medical staff to patients at the UCHG Cancer Centre and the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (25 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: 288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current debt level at the Dublin Airport Authority; if he will provide a breakdown of this debt as it pertains to Dublin, Shannon and Cork airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36323/14]

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: 77. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns with regard to waiting times for cancer services at University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36536/14]

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: There is considerable concern about the standard of service at the cancer care centre at the regional hospital in Galway. It seems there has been a deterioration, not on the part of the staff who are doing an excellent job but in the ability to access beds and chemotherapy treatment. There were reports in the media during the summer about risk control. I know that the Minister has met some...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister. I had sought information from the HSE in respect of the number of cases presenting, but trying to get information from the executive is like throwing a ball against a haystack. The Minster introduced a ten-day turnaround for all agencies to respond to parliamentary questions in his previous Department and I encourage him to consider doing that in his new Department. ...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: Will the Minister's office focus on the arrangements for the delivery of chemotherapy in University Hospital Galway? That is one area causing considerable concern and distress among patients, especially given the distances people must travel. Staff in Hawkins House do not understand the distance element, particularly where people leave Galway following their treatment at 7 p.m. or 8 p.m....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: 121. To ask the Minister for Health the way he will improve the ambulance service, especially in rural Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36535/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (30 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: 249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in Counties Mayo and Roscommon who have received letters regarding overpayment of disadvantaged areas scheme; the reason for the delay in issuing these letters in the context of DAS being paid in October 2013; the total amount of money outstanding in Counties Mayo and Roscommon; the arrangements that have been...