Results 741-760 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (15 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to tackle the increase in VHI premiums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8360/12]
- Road Network (16 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the current status of the Limerick northern relief road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8572/12]
- Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: Medical expenses should be reimbursed.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: They do not do fanfare.
- Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: Last June, the Taoiseach promised a debate on the McCarthy report, which dealt specifically with the proposals on the sale of State assets.
- Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: Will he show the same appreciation to the rest of us regarding this proposal and take cognisance of what Members want regarding a discussion after the horse has bolted?
- Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: The Taoiseach promised on a debate on it.
- Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: We could do with an answers Bill too.
- Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: Will it be launched inside the House?
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: The Minister promised to top up the funding for 2011.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: The Deputy will have to hurry up.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: There are difficult issues facing this State and there were many difficult issues facing it when this Government assumed office 12 months ago. It received a massive majority and was afforded great trust in seeking to resolve our difficulties. The Government gave the distinct impression that not only would there be an easier way than the austerity of the previous Administration, on which it...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: -----and that they will follow his lead and own up to poor judgment and poor management.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: This motion has allowed us to gauge the Minister's response to the headlines that dominate today's health service. How, for example, has he responded to the botched handling of the early retirement scheme?
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: How has the Minister responded to having signed off on HSE service plans that will see hundreds of beds closed in acute hospitals and more beds closed in community nursing homes?
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: How has he responded to the day-care waiting lists which are surging?
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: We remember what the Minister had to say about Sligo too. He cannot hang up the phone here. How does he respond to the massive hikes in health insurance premiums? How, most of all, has he responded to the medical card renewals and the medical card processing applications fiasco?
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: Some of the recent responses by the Government, the Taoiseach and Minister for Health are ridiculous in the extreme-----
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: -----and as baffling as the Taoiseach's yarn here last week about the fog in the airport. On the HSE plans, the medical cards and the botched retirement plans, we have heard the Taoiseach say that there are "contingency plans in place". We then heard the Minister, Deputy Reilly, say that there are "dynamic contingency plans in place". Then the Taoiseach went one better and said, we have...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)
Barry Cowen: Can the Taoiseach tell us where the dynamic contingency plan to deal with the medical cards fiasco is? Can the Minister for Health tell us where it is? Can either of them tell us where the transition teams to deal with the medical card fiasco are?