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Written Answers — National Children's Strategy: National Children's Strategy (25 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The national children's strategy, Our Children — Their Lives, was published in the year 2000. The second goal of the national children's strategy is concerned with strengthening research, evaluation and information on children's lives. The national children's office, or NCO, oversees important elements of the research programme to be developed under this goal. One of the commitments...

Written Answers — National Children's Strategy: National Children's Strategy (25 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The national children's strategy, Our Children — Their Lives, was published in 2000. The strategy, rooted in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, is a cross-Government response to improving children's lives and was developed with the assistance of NGOs and academics. Ireland is one of the few countries in the world with such a strategy. The national children's office, NCO, was set...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I think Spike Island will be re-opened at some stage.

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I was not around at the time.

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I will bring forward amendments in this regard on Committee Stage.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: She has not been to the hospital.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I certainly have every confidence in the Tánaiste and the political will that was demonstrated by her appointment. I have sat through a number of these debates——

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ——not just since the Tánaiste became Minister for Health and Children but also under the stewardship of the previous Minister, Deputy Martin.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I will not go through the statistics but we have had a significant increase in investment in the health service and the number of personnel deployed in it.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: In the entire period since I was appointed as a Minister of State at this Department in July 2002, I have never once heard a constructive idea from the Opposition benches about how to better manage the health service.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: We hear the litany but we never hear one constructive idea.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Am I to be allowed proceed without interruption?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: First, the Government brought forward the idea——

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I did not hear any ideas from Deputy Costello. Nobody has a monopoly on compassion.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: No Member in this House has a monopoly on compassion in regard to individual cases.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Yes, and we are doing something. The first thing we did was to set up the Health Service Executive. I note that all Opposition parties opposed that. It was clearly and transparently a sensible decision arrived at and implemented by the Government.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Professor Drumm is an excellent man. He has already made some interesting comments about bed capacity. I wonder will the Opposition reflect on them.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It contradicts every motion the Opposition put forward.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Am I allowed to proceed? I have often listened in the House to special pleas, local bargains and hard cases. Are we going to take responsibility for managing a service?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Members opposite clearly do not like facts. That is the problem with Members on the other side of the House.