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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Hospitals are under enormous pressure. Chronic overcrowding means constant chaos in emergency departments. We are all painfully aware of the year-round crisis, which sees hundreds of patients suffer the indignity of lying on trolleys. More than 600 people were on trolleys in our hospitals yesterday; the number is 528 today. However, a not so visible but real consequence of overcrowding...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I first want to welcome the students from the politics and sociology department of Atlantic Technological University, ATU, Sligo to the Dáil today who are guests of Deputy Martin Kenny. They are very welcome to Leinster House. I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this important issue of wait times. It is a little disingenuous the way the figures have been presented this afternoon....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I did not raise with the Taoiseach the issue of wait times-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I raised the issue of cancellations, and 250,000, that is, a quarter of a million hospital cancellations, is a record. We do not have to compare it with anything. It is a record level of cancellations, and it included-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: It is not a record.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----800 cancellations of children's chemotherapy appointments. I am astonished by the Taoiseach's approach to this. It appears that he wishes to argue statistical presentational issues. He is not challenging, I am sure, the fact that there were a quarter of a million hospital cancellations. The Taoiseach accepts that, does he? Does he accept also that there were 800 cancellations of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: Leaders' Questions is not about the Deputy and it is not about me, and on that we can agree. I have nothing but respect for the Deputy, but that is not what this is about. When she decided this morning, in advance of coming in for Leaders' Questions, to issue a press release with statistics - She did. She can roll her eyes but she pushes it out and Sinn Féin Members will all retweet it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: But that is not the issue. The issue is people's appointments being cancelled.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Let the Taoiseach reply.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is ludicrous.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please let the Taoiseach reply.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: No, it is not ludicrous. I am just asking that when the Deputy talks to the people at home, she gives them the facts. The HSE specifically asked Sinn Féin not to do what it did today in comparing the data. That is the first point. The second point is that wait times and cancellations and how long it takes to see a doctor are all interlinked. What I want people at home, most...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: And where there are a quarter of a million cancellations.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: -----is increasing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: A quarter of a million.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: These are important facts, and we cannot just seek to exploit every single challenge. More children are being treated and more money is going in. When you talk about a recruitment embargo, you have to point out that 2,200 more staff will be hired this year. The only thing that vanished-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: So Peadar Gilligan is wrong.