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- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: I do not think that is a proper characterisation of that particular situation. I do not want to go over it again; it is not within the remit of the questions. I was asked what were my appointments under my Department and I have set out that information. The purpose of parliamentary questions is to obtain information. The situation clearly is that there was a remit as far as the Minister...
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: From time to time, that can occur where there is a difference of opinion, but the purpose of the board is to implement Government policy. Government policy is to proceed with the building of a hospital on that site as a result of a lot of independent reports that were conducted and is in line with world trends where paediatric hospitals are built on the same sites as or adjacent to adult...
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: Twenty-four of the last 25 that have been built worldwide have been that way.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: As I said yesterday to Deputy Gilmore, the funding arrangements are the same now as they were when the project was first announced. There is no change in that.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: I am sorry, but I will not get into it. If Deputy Kenny has a line question for the Minister for Health and Children for further detail, that is the place to put it.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: Of course she answers questions. She answers any question that is put to her.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: Either we are going to have a serious discussion or we are not.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: I recall the fall of Deputy Gilmore's Government.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: The only commitment I would like to give Deputy Gilmore in that regard is that we will certainly not repeat something that happened on the demise of a Government in which he was a Minister of State. It purported to appoint people to health boards on dates when I was the Minister for Health and Children. We had a situation in which there was an effort made by an outgoing Government to...
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: -----health boards in respect of vacancies which-----
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: It is an interesting principle.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: They were approved by a Government of which Deputy Gilmore was a member.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: I will of course.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: I am answering. I can give the commitment that that will certainly not happen.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: No. An effort will be made-----
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: I had to listen in silence.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: Do they not hate this stuff?
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: Deputy Gilmore did it. He was a member of a Government that approved appointments to boards in respect of vacancies that arose during the time of a subsequent Government.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: That was as good a trick as I ever came across. Members of Deputy Gilmore's party took up or sought to take up positions on that basis.
- Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)
Brian Cowen: Those members threatened legal proceedings afterwards in public commentary, that they would go to the highest court in the land to protect their reputations.