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Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: At a recent meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive admitted that it was facing a potential deficit of €500 million if corrective action were not taken. He stated that to break even there would be a significant impact on services for the remainder of the year. He added that the assumptions on which the HSE's 2012 service plan...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not deal with the core issue. Completely unrealistic and unachievable figures were included in the health Estimate. Legislation to give effect to them has not even been brought before the House and it is only two or three weeks to the recess. False figures were included in the Estimate: there was a figure of €143 million under the heading of income from private patients...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: We need clarity on how the Estimate was submitted. I accept there can be overruns in expenditure, but what is clear from this - anyone who knows anything on the ground is saying this - is that there was never a hope in hell that any of these figures would be realised. They were false figures and will the Taoiseach correct them? Can we have a realistic Estimate for the remainder of the year...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should not listen to the prompts from the Minister; he should answer the questions asked.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, has written to the Minister to tell him to get his act together.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I do not need a lecture from the Taoiseach about my time in the Department of Health of Children. I am quite happy about it.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: What the people at the coalface want is answers.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I asked about the Estimate.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I referred to the Estimate.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach have any idea what is happening on the ground?

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Last week, Mr. Cathal Magee, the CEO of the Health Service Executive, referred to a €500 million overrun in the heath service at a committee meeting.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Of course it is, because a lot was put into Cork University Hospital in the last five years. Could the Taoiseach answer the question?

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: They are the Government's figures. The CEO of the HSE spoke about this last week at the committee. The Taoiseach should ask Deputy John Deasy about it.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Last week saw the spectacle of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, calling on the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, to intervene personally to address the deficit, as well as expressing his concerns about governance within the health service. Fianna Fáil has asked consistently in the Chamber about the proposed HSE governance Bill because, as the Taoiseach is...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Would it not better if the existing board was left in place and there was a governance system? At the moment there is no governance system. Why abolish the board and have nothing in its place for 16 months?

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is no comparison.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the Taoiseach can do what he likes in running this House. He knows that because he has the numbers. He should not be giving me infantile comments on whether I want the House to sit longer. That is his call.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach runs this House. The Whips are only nominally involved.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The real point is that the Taoiseach has admitted to the House that the legislative changes upon which the Minister for Health based his Estimate will not even be passed before the summer recess. That shows how false the Estimate was.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The legislation will now come before the House in the autumn and very large sums of money were based on that legislation being passed before then. That is what we were told last December. That is how false the health Estimate was. Patients are going to suffer on the double between now and Christmas because of that dishonesty in preparing the Estimate. The legislation will not now be ready...