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Order of Business (15 May 2008)

James Reilly: Quest Diagnostics has 85% accuracy while Irish labs have 95%. As a woman the Tánaiste should know the seriousness of this issue. She knows precisely what I am saying. I challenge her to tell us the facts.

Order of Business (15 May 2008)

James Reilly: In ten days this contract will be irrefutably given and there will be no come back and no point in a debate. I call for a debate next week so we can expose what is happening to the Irish people. We would gladly accept that.

Order of Business (15 May 2008)

James Reilly: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (15 May 2008)

James Reilly: Let us see the Tánaiste's bona fides on the care of women in this country. She must give us a debate.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (15 May 2008)

James Reilly: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people entitled to a full medical card for each of the years 1998 to date in 2008; the number of people entitled to a full medical card for same expressed as a percentage of the population of the day; the income thresholds as they applied for each of the years since 1998; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting: the announcement of a national cancer strategy; the proposal to develop eight centres of excellence at various locations around the country; the intention to provide every patient with the best medical care and clinical attention; the absence of a centre of excellence north of a line from Dublin to Galway and conscious specifically of the geographical...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: I welcome the support of the Labour Party for this motion. The motion is self-explanatory but the rationale behind it requires further elucidation. At the core of it is the question of trust. What is at issue is whether the people of the north west and west can trust the Government, the Minister for Health and Children and the monolithic Health Service Executive to deliver the services...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: Is something wrong with the HSE given that it cannot find a partner abroad which does not have a record of fraud? Quest, the cervical cancer screening company, has a margin of error of 15%, whereas our laboratories have a margin of 5%. A recent comparative study of 14,500 slides conducted by St. Luke's hospital shows that, even accounting for urgent cases, Quest's laboratory has an error...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: That is hardly a hospital with sufficient capacity to take on a regional centre. The €5 million which is to be spent on the eight centres divides into €625,000 per unit, which is not the sort of money needed to deliver the excellence Galway hopes to provide. These issues arise before I even begin to discuss the parking difficulties experienced around University Hospital, Galway. Many...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: Hear, hear.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: That information is out of date.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: With respect, I mentioned figures for 2007.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: On a point of information, I rang the ESRI and I was told that it depends on the information given to it by hospitals. It does not stand over the information either and it realises there is a problem.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: I apologise.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: I have all the facts.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: Correct, and those who have histopathologically proven malignancies. Let us keep the record straight.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: No, we are not.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: I am, and I believe doctors when they explain the hard facts.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: Correct. Eight women had that last year with the surgeon from Mayo going to Galway to assist.

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: That does not happen. Women are assessed and brought to Galway for surgery.