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European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: Government policy.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: It has not been discussed at all.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: This week we learned that waiting times for operations have increased by more than 47% for people waiting longer than six months, dramatically so within the past nine months. The related legislation is the health governance Bill which is intended to replace the governance of the HSE. This is urgently required because as things stand nobody knows who is in charge of the health service....

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: I understood the Minister made an announcement on it during the week.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: The situation is worse.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is not happening.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: Politics aside, that is not happening.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: One million people have medical cards.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is a statistical construction, another PR con job.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is a statistical construction.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: Not true.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: We will wait and see what the Minister achieves.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: Look at cardiac or cancer care services. There has been a dramatic transformation, as the Minister knows. He is a propagandist.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: More bluff. There were only 700 when the Minister took office.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: That figure has gone up by 47%.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: I have spoken to people who know the facts-----

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----and they are appalled by what the Minister has been up to in cooking the books.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Minister knows that is not true. I am asking the Minister whether the National Treatment Purchase Fund delivered.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Reilly is Minister 12 months.

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Micheál Martin: There were 170,000 done.