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Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The home help hours have been cut by 40% in County Kildare. The Minister's Department told me that last week.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister is misleading the House.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: She has acted deliberately.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: That is not the issue.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The issue is the number of hours provided for home help.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The Minister has cut the hours by 40% in County Kildare.

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Given the 40% cut in home help service in County Kildare, I presume the same is true elsewhere, given that acute hospital beds and long-stay beds are being used unnecessarily as a result and given that Department of Health and Children money has been wasted on computers, does the Tánaiste intend to introduce a revised Estimate for her Department and the HSE——

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: ——to allow home help service payments to be made?

Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: The Tánaiste should stand up.

Order of Business. (18 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: I want the assistance and guidance of the Ceann Comhairle in this matter. On 27 April I received information from the Tánaiste through a parliamentary question to the effect that the home help for a person in Kildare had been cut by 40%. On 13 October the Tánaiste told the House that there had not been any cuts in home help hours. How may we clarify these differences in information from the...

Order of Business. (18 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Will the Government consider making time available to the Tánaiste so that she may clarify the contradiction between her two answers?

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to reports that the national treatment purchase fund spent €600 on taxi fares to send a patient from Dublin to Limerick for a minor operation; her views on whether this is the most appropriate use of taxpayers' money; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28783/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (18 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the 30 beds in Hume Street Hospital that will not be replaced when the hospital closes; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that those 30 beds are in constant use and that there is a 17 month waiting list; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that bookings...

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: What about modern legislation?

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: It is in the thousands of euro.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: They are not taking charge. They are prevented from taking charge.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: Councillors do not give out planning permission.

Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)

Emmet Stagg: It is a rip-off. They do not do anything except cut the grass.