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Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: As long the Minister is awake.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: This is rhetoric, not action.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: It is a point of clarity.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Absolutely.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: The Minister, Deputy Lenihan, should not expect but demand that. Who is in power, the banks or the Government?

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (17 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to update the Competition Act 2002 and in particular to alter the Act in order that meaningful discussions can take place with the doctors' unions, the Irish Dental Association and Irish Actors Equity Union amongst others; when she expects legislation to be presented to Dáil Éireann for approval;...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (17 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to date of the new national children's hospital; the estimated cost of this hospital; if she will provide a progress report on the project; the estimated date of completion; the way this project will be funded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5637/09]

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: There are sins of omission as well as commission.

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Did it help the situation?

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (18 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to change the institutional arrangements for financial regulation; and if he will publish an assessment of issues in advance of finalising decisions. [6283/09]

Written Answers — Public Service Reform: Public Service Reform (18 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the action taken to date to implement the recommendations of the taskforce on the public service. [6284/09]

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is a 30% increase in delayed discharges from acute hospitals between 2007 and 2008 which lost the hospital system 216,885 bed days; the further reason the health service is not using beds available in the community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6947/09]

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: An average of 293 patients were on trolleys to date in February 2009. That is an Irish Nurses Organisation figure. The average number in February 2008 was 244. In February 2007 it was 297, and it was 332 in February 2006. In March 2006 the Minister declared the situation in accident and emergency services to be a national emergency. Last year the Minister closed 500 beds and this year...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I want to talk about that for a moment. St. Brigid's ward is perfectly good. People are delighted with it. Families are supportive of it. Patients want to stay in it. Staff are delighted to be working there, yet the Minister wants to close it down. In addition, the HSE is closing a ward in Waterford, which will put more pressure on accident and emergency services there.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: When I asked a question of the HSE it provided responses from 36 hospitals giving a total of 216,885 bed days lost. Will the Minister inform the House of the number of bed days lost from all 51 public hospitals?

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Nonsense.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: That is not true. I was there.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: A total of €500,000 has been spent on it by friends of the hospital. Staff and patients and their families take a great interest in the hospital.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I put it to the Minister that the ward in St. Patrick's has had €500,000 spent on it, that the health and safety report, which I have seen with my own eyes, has been addressed, bar one remaining issue, namely, fire screens in the attic that will cost €50,000, which the friends and families of St. Patrick's are prepared to pay. As to the Minister's contention that the figures are wrong, I...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress of her hospital co-location plan; her views on the viability of the plan in view of the fact that the funding environment has changed in the past six months; when she expects the first bed to come on stream; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6949/09]