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Health Centres. (3 Feb 2004)

Rory O'Hanlon: Deputy, I ask you to give way to the Minister. In fairness to the staff of the House I request all Members, including Ministers, to confine themselves to the five minutes under Standing Orders.

Health Centres. (3 Feb 2004)

Róisín Shortall: ——and I appeal to the Minister to provide the funding that he has promised and which he has welched on to date.

Health Centres. (3 Feb 2004)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for the opportunity to speak on this important matter. The provision of health centres to meet the needs of local communities within its functional area is a matter for the relevant health board or the Eastern Regional Health Authority. In the case of Ballymun that responsibility rests with the Eastern Regional Health Authority and the Northern Area Health Board. The...

Health Centres. (3 Feb 2004)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister had that information for a long time. He should not put it on the long finger.

Adjournment Debate. (3 Feb 2004)

Irish Blood Transfusion Service.

Irish Blood Transfusion Service. (3 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: I thank the Chair for giving me an opportunity to raise this issue tonight. The Irish Medicines Board has warned that the blood screening irradiator which helps to prevent serious complications, or even death, at the Irish Blood Transfusion Service unit in Cork is faulty. The machine, which prevents a rare but sometimes fatal reaction in some patients who receive blood is in such poor...

Irish Blood Transfusion Service. (3 Feb 2004)

Micheál Martin: The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is inspected twice yearly by the Irish Medicines Board, which is the regulatory authority for the service. The Irish Medicines Board identified a number of deficiencies following an inspection of the service's Cork centre between 3 and 5 December 2003. A presentation on the board's findings was made by the IMB's acting chief executive officer at the IBTS...

Adjournment Debate. (3 Feb 2004)

Hospital Inquiry.

Hospital Inquiry. (3 Feb 2004)

Rory O'Hanlon: The final two matters have been taken together. Deputies Brendan Smith and Ó Caoláin, who have raised the issue of the recent difficulties in Cavan General Hospital, including the suspension of two consultants and the death of a young person, will have five minutes each.

Hospital Inquiry. (3 Feb 2004)

Brendan Smith: I am very grateful to the Chair for giving us an opportunity to speak about this important subject. I am glad the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, is present in the House as we approach the midnight hour to hear our concerns. At the outset, I extend my sincere sympathy to Brian and Rosemary Sheridan and their family on the death of their daughter, Frances. The North Eastern...

Hospital Inquiry. (3 Feb 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to share a minute of my time with my colleague, Deputy Crawford. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this important issue and I join Deputy Brendan Smith in welcoming the Minister to the House at this late hour. The failure so far to have the promised inquiry into the dispute involving two now-suspended consultants at Cavan General Hospital is grossly unfair to...

Hospital Inquiry. (3 Feb 2004)

Seymour Crawford: I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin for the opportunity to speak on this tragic issue. The death of Frances Sheridan, aged nine, has brought back into the limelight the extremely serious problem of the mismanagement of Cavan-Monaghan hospital group. I express my sympathy with the Sheridan family, as I did personally yesterday. I am disgusted by the media intrusion into this family's great tragedy. The...

Hospital Inquiry. (3 Feb 2004)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputies for raising these issues on the Adjournment. I take this opportunity to offer my deepest sympathy to the Sheridan family on the death of Frances. I do not propose to comment on the specific circumstances of the case in respect of the family's privacy at this time. In addition, the State pathologist has conducted a post mortem, the results of which are awaited. This...

(4 Feb 2004)

The Dail Divided: For the motion: 29 (Eddie Bohan, Cyprian Brady, Michael Brennan, Peter Callanan, Brendan Daly, John Dardis, Geraldine Feeney, Liam Fitzgerald, Camillus Glynn, John Gerard Hanafin, Brendan Kenneally, Tony Kett, Michael Kitt, Terry Leyden, Don Lydon, Marc MacSharry, Martin Mansergh, John Minihan, Tom Morrissey, Pat Moylan, Francis O'Brien, Mary O'Rourke, Labhrás...

Prelude (10 Feb 2004)

Prelude (10 Feb 2004)

Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.

Prelude (10 Feb 2004)

Paidir.

Business of Dáil. (10 Feb 2004)

Business of Dáil. (10 Feb 2004)

Trevor Sargent: On a point of order, is it appropriate to proceed with business in light of requests made by letter to the Ceann Comhairle's office?

Business of Dáil. (10 Feb 2004)

Rory O'Hanlon: That is not a point of order. We must move to Taoiseach's questions in accordance with the relevant Standing Order. I call Question No. 1.