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Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Timmy Dooley: I would much prefer if the Opposition Deputies came in here with that document——

Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Timmy Dooley: ——and subjected it to scrutiny from across the House.

Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Timmy Dooley: Well, you have the document. Bring it in next week.

Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Timmy Dooley: Through the Chair, I suggest they bring it in. Let us have a proper discussion about it. If Fine Gael is talking about making savings of €4.5 billion in the budget strategy, it will have to make significant cuts somewhere. The Deputies continue in the same vein, saying there will be no cuts and no increases in tax. Tonight they do not want a reduction in VAT.

Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Timmy Dooley: There will be no extra borrowing for current spending. This is fairy-tale stuff. It is Lapland economics. It is as though they are going to write to Santa and all will be delivered on Christmas morning. It just does not work like that. That is why the strategy being put forward by this Government, which some people continue to fail to recognise, is about stabilising the economy and the...

Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Timmy Dooley: One need only look in my area to see what we are doing in the mid-west. We are investing in the western rail corridor; we are investing in the Atlantic corridor, which is the road network from Donegal to Waterford; we are investing in the tunnel under the Shannon; we have invested in the infrastructure of the airport, and we are continuing to do that. It is in this way that we will...

Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Timmy Dooley: These are multinational companies that are still prepared to invest in this region. Of course, I will be asking the Minister to ensure that Shannon is included in this and that we get significant investment in the industrial zone there to offset the job losses that have occurred recently at Element Six and others. I also take this opportunity to say to Aer Lingus that it removed the...

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Shatter would know all about that.

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Timmy Dooley: That also comes back to Deputy Shatter

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Shatter is making a joke out of it.

Child Protection: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2009)

Timmy Dooley: In that case the Deputy should read something else.

Expenditure Control and Economic Strategy: Statements (3 Feb 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Kenny cannot have it both ways.

Services for People with Disabilities. (4 Feb 2009)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, to the House. He is committed to children with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Recently I received a note from a mother which sets out the concerns of parents of children with autism. She states: I write with reference to my two and a half year old daughter who has recently been diagnosed with autism and attention...

Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

Timmy Dooley: What else will Deputy Durkan ask?

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome this opportunity to discuss the issue of reconfiguration of medical services in the mid-west region. Health is an emotive issue and the advent of change generates fear and uncertainty in the minds of the public at large. While that fear may be well-founded in some cases, the efforts by some vested interests to mislead and misguide is unfortunate and unnecessary. The current...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Timmy Dooley: I tell them and I have no problem with that. I am prepared to put the facts before the people and to accept the advice of the senior clinicians in the region. There are other people running around this country who are not prepared to back up what they say with any level of evidence other than "dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi". That does not work for me and it does not work for the...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Timmy Dooley: It is incumbent on all of us to ensure these changes are made without delay.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Timmy Dooley: If these changes are to be successful, they should, and must, be supported by investment in the supporting infrastructure and in bed capacity, upgraded facilities and improved and enhanced ambulance cover. I appeal to the Minister and her Department——

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Timmy Dooley: —— to lead this change through investment. The geographical spread of County Clare, as I am sure Deputy Carey will agree when he speaks later, will require extra ambulances and extra ambulance personal. It will require advanced paramedics. There are particular geographical matters between east and west Clare. East Clare currently has a period from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. without ambulance...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Timmy Dooley: The proposed changes in emergency department cover from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. at Ennis Hospital need further clarification and consideration. Engagement with Shannon Doc services is necessary to provide the people of County Clare with access to appropriate services on the hospital site. I believe there is need for an extra eight consultants and 12 advanced paramedics and also for that critical...