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Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (16 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: My Department has received a copy of the report by the Pat Finucane Centre which raised concerns about the health of the person in question. For my part I have discussed the status of this individual with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and I have directed officials from my Department to continue to monitor this case very closely.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Today, the Health Information and Quality Authority published its report of the investigation into the quality, safety and governance of the care provided by Tallaght hospital for patients who require acute admissions. The investigation followed the death of a patient, Mr. Thomas Walsh from Kilnamanagh in Tallaght, who died at the hospital in March 2011 while in a corridor awaiting a bed. I...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: First, changes have already been made in Tallaght. The practice of people being on trolleys in a corridor near the emergency department has been ended.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Since this occurred last year, there have been big changes in Tallaght Hospital. The board has been replaced, there is a new chairperson and CEO and there is a new regime in the hospital. Very big changes have been made in Tallaght Hospital itself. Second, with regard to the wider issue of trolleys, when people present to a hospital and need to get treatment, they should be able to get a...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government and the Minister for Health, through the special delivery unit, SDU, has been driving down the number of people on trolleys. There has been a reduction of 17% in the number of people on trolleys throughout the country. In the greater Dublin area the reduction is 23%. A system is in place whereby the number of people on trolleys is assessed every day.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: There are not 26,000. The Deputy should not use false figures.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The number of people on trolleys is being reduced.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The number of people on trolleys is submitted to the SDU three times every day. The number today, for example, is 275, compared with 368 on this day last year.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I accept that the country is in a very difficult economic situation, and has been for some time. Everyone who has lost a job, whose business has gone bad or is having difficulty paying a mortgage or making ends meet knows that. There is only one thing we have to do, and that is to work our way out of the situation. To do that we must, first, get our economy to grow again, and it is...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Sinn Féin's fairytale economics will drive us in the direction of Greece. We have seen what is happening in that country. There are consequences. We are seeing 30,000 people in the public sector about to lose their jobs in that country and reductions in pensions and pay of the order of 20%. We must take the route towards recovery. Deputy Doherty talks about austerity. No one wants austerity.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: We want to work our way out of it. The problem is that Sinn Féin's fairytale economics will result in far more austerity for the people of this country.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The opposite will result from the sensible decision to support the stability treaty and build growth measures on it, like those Deputy Howlin has been talking about this morning and those I hope will emerge from the European summit on 23 May.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: What is happening in Greece is what would happen in this country if we were to follow the fairytale economics of Sinn Féin.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: There is no point in talking about what might happen after 2015. The problem Sinn Féin would land us in would present itself at the end of next year, when we would arrive at a point where, because Deputy Doherty's leader says we should tell the IMF to go home and take its money with it, we would no longer get money from the IMF. He said we should default on our debt such that we would not...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The problem with Sinn Féin-----

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The answer-----

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The essential answer to the country's economic difficulties is that we must have investment to create jobs. There are a number of ways-----

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: We are not going to solve this problem.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The country has a serious problem which must be solved. It is not going to be solved by shouting at it or heckling-----

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: -----it is going to be solved by serious hard work on the part of the Government in getting investors to come to the country. They must have confidence in it, which is why we must pass the stability treaty. We must do the kind of things about which the Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin, spoke where we establish measures to stimulate the economy, harness money in the National Pensions Reserve...