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Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 681: To ask the Minister for Health if a transition team has been established with his Department to manage the exodus of staff from the health services to avail of pension entitlements before the end of February; the members of the transition teams; when were they established; and the number of times the team has met. [7924/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 711: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a month by month breakdown of retirements of the number of health service staff that are retiring each month between September 2011 and end of April 2012; if he will provide an outline of the posts that will be prioritised for replacement and give a month by month breakdown of when these positions will be filled. [8160/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 712: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a monthly breakdown of the number of health service staff in County Louth due to retire between September 2011 and end of April 2012; if he will provide a breakdown by grade and location; the posts that will be prioritised for replacement if he will and give a monthly breakdown of when these positions will be filled. [8161/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 731: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of each outpatient department clinic which takes place in the Louth County Hospital, Dundalk and also in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and in relation to each clinic if he will provide details on the waiting time a patient will experience before receiving their first appointment; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Question 732: To ask the Minister for Health when the national review of public health nursing will be published; his plans to appoint public health nurses in order to backfill PHN vacancies in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8418/12]

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: The national service plan for the health service sees €750 million stripped from health services this year. This comes on top of €1.5 billion taken out of the health service by this Government and the previous Government over the previous two years. This morning, I received a copy of the Dublin north-east regional service plan. The HSE has asked that it be kept confidential and no...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: For the third year, the budget for this region will be reduced, this time by a further €120 million. Is the Taoiseach aware that the plan expects up to 400 staff to have retired by the end of this month, as well as a cut of up to 561 staff jobs? Is the Taoiseach aware of the plan to cut 205 long-term beds for older people's services? The two nursing homes in the constituency I am...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: I face reality and Sinn Féin's position across this island is entirely consistent on all these issues.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach says he wants to see the continuation of the best services but this plan says that it will not be possible to fully maintain the same level of service in 2012 as in 2011. This is not from me or Sinn Féin propaganda but from the plan. The impact on ordinary citizens and the social consequences of the policy, which the Taoiseach avoids, is that between 500 and 900 public...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Government cannot hope to do this while sticking to the recruitment embargo. It should not tell citizens that we cannot afford a decent health service. Between 2010 and 2013, €2.25 billion has been taken out of the health service by the Government and Fianna Fáil.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Finian, give me a break.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: In the last three months the Government has handed over €2.5 billion to bondholders. We should compare the two figures. Next month €3.1 billion will be paid to Anglo Irish Bank in a promissory note.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: This is about choices. The Taoiseach is making the wrong choices and there is no escaping the social and health consequences of the Government strategy, not least in terms of patient safety. I ask the Taoiseach to call a halt to this and announce that the plan will be put where it deserves to go, which is in the bin. The Government should be part of building a proper, decent wraparound...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: The fair deal is not working.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Was the Taoiseach ever in it?

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: Maidir le reachtaíocht a fógraíodh, does the Government intend to bring forward new legislation to facilitate the sell off of State assets or will he provide time for a debate on the sell off? All the time we hear scéalta through the media. We have a strong view that State control of strategic assets such as ESB or Bord Gáis is central to the future of the economy. Those of us with a...

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach is in bad form this morning.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: On a very important issue-----

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: I am not seeking a debate; I am seeking guidance.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach is entitled to raise matters about what he regards as Sinn Féin's record. The difficulty is that he is in government with a party whose leadership was involved with a group that styled itself as the Official IRA, whose fund-raising-----