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Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Deputy Seymour Crawford is right because that seems to be the modus operandi of this Government, whether it is minorities, such as people with cystic fibrosis, children with autism waiting for assessment, the homeless, or people with mental health, who have co-located hospitals built on the site of their psychiatric unit while continuing to be treated in an open ward with 23 people where...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: It is a disgrace and the Minister has disgraced herself by allowing private business to supersede the needs of the most vulnerable in our society.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: The reality is that what has been attempted does not address the real issue the Minister has raised, which is the margin that wholesalers have, because as she already pointed out the HSE cannot negotiate with wholesalers nor the wholesalers with the HSE, because of the wonderful competition law. The HSE misled the Joint Committee on Health and Children by telling it that it had a letter from...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: It was sent to me this morning. It had been sent to the newspapers but not published.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: That is correct.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Does that detract from the truth of what he is saying and what he feels?

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Like me, he would agree that value for money is at the core of this issue. It is how one does one's business. I want to return to the HSE and its well demonstrated bully-boy tactics. I would like to know how the Minister views the HSE's intention to boycott Newstalk Radio because it has pursued it on issues of public interest. It becomes clearer and clearer that the HSE is out of control,...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister can put any interpretation she wants on it. The facts remain the facts.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Notwithstanding all the above and despite severe provocation by the HSE, I call on the IPU to ensure there is no diminution of service to patients. I ask for the forbearance of pharmacists, despite all their frustrations, and hope the Minister will yield to pressure from her backbenchers, who are clearly very ill at ease with her modus operandi. In recent weeks, this issue and the issues of...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: May I make a correction or a clarification?

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: I may have said 15 when I meant 18.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: It was the number of respondents to the HSE survey.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: The document was issued by Deputy Moloney's office.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: I read out the text cited by Deputy Moloney. It is on record if he wishes to check it.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Which the Government ignored.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: I would like to express my sympathies to the families of the two Polish men who were savagely murdered in Dublin recently. Will the Tánaiste and the Minster for Health and Children, who are both in attendance, ensure that houses built under the social housing Act will be occupied?

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Currently, a €7 million facility in St. James's Hospital is being left idle.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: It is mismanagement of the highest order. If financial savings are to be made, they should be made at management level and not at the expense of the homeless and the most vulnerable in society.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: Where are the promised reports to the House?