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Hospital Staff (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A Cheann Comhairle, there is huge frustration about this important issue.

Hospital Staff (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Every day it was raised with the Taoiseach, he signalled the Minister for Health would address it today. Yet, we have not even had a chance for a supplementary. It is so inadequate.

Hospital Staff (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are talking about something more than minutes in this case.

HSE Rental Property (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The real issue at the heart of this matter has not been referred to. I refer to the requirement for a public private partnership contract. The HSE in Carlow has adequate accommodation for its needs. As the Deputy said, €1,000 per day is being flushed away through the arrangement in question. I have raised this directly in the House and was the first to do so through a parliamentary...

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Go raibh maith agat.

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, of course.

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not see him here anyway so I presume I am speaking on his behalf.

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Ceann Comhairle is only getting used to his role and should not be distracted from what we have just heard. I have just heard the Minister state Roscommon hospital is to become the home of an out-of-hours GP service from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. There is no other way to describe this; it is simply unacceptable. The Minister and his party colleagues gave firm commitments to the people of...

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----this week in one of the two local newspapers, the Roscommon People. We are all familiar with the commitments that have been made by Fine Gael and the Labour Party-----

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a question to ask.

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My question is simple - will the Minister accept that what he is proposing for Roscommon General Hospital represents a significant downgrading of the services the people of Roscommon have treasured over many years and rightly expected to be reaffirmed, protected and guaranteed on the election of the new Government? Does he accept that what he now proposes represents a significant diminution...

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of the people of Cavan and Monaghan that it most certainly reflects the same template that was introduced at the hospital in Monaghan, which template will ultimately lead to a further domino effect bringing about a loss of critical services? The people of Roscommon should not tolerate it under any circumstances.

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They should make the service better rather than do away with it.

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If one has a heart attack after 8 p.m. in Roscommon, one should not go to the local hospital.

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not the one the Minister offered in February.

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Surely there is nothing in Standing Orders about local Deputies.

Hospital Services (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He did not regulate at all.

Health Service Staff (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is there an opportunity to ask a brief supplementary question?

Health Service Staff (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is there not a provision for other Deputies to-----

Health Service Staff (30 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Perhaps the Ceann Comhairle should have Question Time on the plinth.