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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate a matter of major national importance, namely, that the Government should save 200 women, or more, from dying from breast cancer by making the National Treatment Purchase Fund available to provide a temporary breast-screening service to women living in the south and west of Ireland pending the full national roll-out of...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I referred to the fact that 200 women will have to die before BreastCheck will be up and running in the south and west.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: It is ridiculous.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Money would save these people's lives. They should be saved.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: They should not be allowed to die because of Government neglect, as usual.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: This has been going on for donkey's years.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: BreastCheck is available on the east coast but not in the west. This is due to Government neglect.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: How many more women will have to die before BreastCheck is extended to the south and west? It is a scandal.

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The people of Ballycroy, County Mayo have been awaiting clean water for many years. Out of the goodness of his heart a man delivers water to old people. The water has been tested, I saw the results and it is perfect. The Health Service Executive is trying to stop this man doing the job it should do. If it stops this man doing a labour of mercy surely it can be compelled to give those people water.

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Every second person who has breast cancer in the west of Ireland has a mastectomy. In the Dublin area it is one in five. Professor Michael Kerin, a former director of BreastCheck, works in Galway and is horrified the people will have to wait until 2009 for the BreastCheck service. That is ridiculous considering all the money that is available. This morning I said 200 people in the west and...

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: It is terrible that one in five breast cancer patients have a mastectomy in the east compared to one in two in the west. I hope the Minister will respond.

National Emergency Plan. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Given that the Air Corps is providing a helicopter service, as regards the M50, does the Minister not accept that it is impossible for anything other than dedicated service to be available? A report has shown that a helicopter medical service that is available on a North-South basis is essential. It would mean such a helicopter would be available together with a fully staffed crew, in effect...

National Emergency Plan. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I thank the Minister and I certainly will do that. The Beaumont study has shown that it can be up to 12 hours before a helicopter comes and people have died. A young lad from the west with head injuries after a road traffic accident died because of a delay in transferring him to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. A tourist died on the side of the road because a helicopter was delayed in arriving at...

Cancer Screening Programme. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I am grateful to the Ceann Comhairle for providing me with the opportunity to raise this very important matter. We all agree breast cancer is a terrible killer. There is no known way to prevent it. However, it is very treatable if detected early, according to the BreastCheck website. Unfortunately, health apartheid exists here, where half the population has had a service since 2000. The death...

Cancer Screening Programme. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Why was it not rolled out in 2000?

Cancer Screening Programme. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: If we could get it. The Galway Clinic could provide it in the meantime.

Cancer Screening Programme. (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: We live in hope but people will die in the meantime.

Written Answers — Search and Rescue Service: Search and Rescue Service (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a person from Clare Island, County Mayo, in advanced labour and a patient of Mayo General Hospital, who was airlifted by the Air Corps search and rescue team at 4.45 a.m. on 14 February 2006 did not arrive in Mayo General Hospital until 3.35 p.m. on 15 February 2006 due to current civil aviation law where a helicopter with two or more...

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (23 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children who attend schools here from the ages of four to 18; the breakdown of these figures into primary and secondary school numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7526/06]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (28 Feb 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of Dáil Éireann under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent public and national concern, namely, why ten people, including a 93 year old woman, were on trolleys in the accident and emergency department of Mayo General Hospital yesterday, some of whom were going into their fourth night on trolleys, while 30 elderly care beds have been closed at...