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Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (11 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the proposed extension to Naas General Hospital; if she will confirm a date when the extension will commence; the target date for the extension to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10109/08]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (11 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will build the long promised and now cancelled acute psychiatric unit at Beaumont Hospital; the location of the new site on the hospital campus for the unit; if planning permission has being submitted; the costs incurred to date on the aborted project for the original psychiatric unit at Beaumont Hospital for which planning...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of budgetary constraints, she will review the waste of scarce resources involved in calling back patients for unnecessary medical review in certain cases and amend the list for such reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10237/08]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (11 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the roll out of BreastCheck, particularly in the west of Ireland and consider extending the age for the test beyond age 64 to facilitate the testing of women who have missed the opportunity for the test due to the inordinate delay in rolling out the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10321/08]

Programmes for Government. (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Question 22: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10632/08]

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 2: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "—expresses its serious concern at the findings of recent reports into breast cancer services at the Midlands Hospital Portlaoise; regrets the deep distress caused by these failures to many patients and women in the midlands; concludes that the reports demonstrate serious failures in the...

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: I heard what the Minister stated.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Does the Minister still maintain that the Department did not get the letter?

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: In that case, the Minister will be able to confirm that no acknowledgement of the letter is on file.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Dr. Naughton made the then Minister aware that despite the allocation of funding, none of the necessary specialist personnel were in place or had been advertised for, including surgeons, radiologists and pathologists. Dr. Naughton wrote that life would be much easier for him if he walked away because, at least in that case, patients would need to go elsewhere to get a service they deserved...

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: I know why. I was——

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: I hope this time will not be taken from me.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister has told people that it is difficult to get the staff in question on a global basis. I will explain why people will not go to the hospital in Portlaoise or elsewhere, namely, the word on the grapevine in medical circles is that such hospitals have no future and that the careers of those who go there will not progress. I wonder who put this word out there.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: No further action was taken and the patient has not been put at the centre of the health service. Furthermore, the Minister misled me at last week's meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children. She stated: "Professor Keane has also agreed with the Irish College of General Practitioners on a new method of referring patients for breast diagnosis". However, this is not so, as no...

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: We are in this position because of the decision made by him.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Balderdash.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Tá triúir anseo nach raibh seans acu labhairt agus tá beirt tar éis labhairt cheana féin. Ba cheart go mbeadh na daoine seo in ann labhairt.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Does the Minister accept Mr. Fitzgerald's report? A simple "yes" or "no" will do.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: A simple nod would do. If she accepts his report, does she accept that his contention that if the urgency shown after 22 November was shown before that date, then much of the hardship inflicted on patients would have been avoided? Surely this criticism about a lack of urgency also applies to the Minister. Does she believe she did everything she could after August and before 22 November,...

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

James Reilly: Inadequately, unfortunately.