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- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
John Halligan: Our first job here is to elect a Government.
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
John Halligan: If we cannot elect one, we must go back to the country.
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
John Halligan: However, before we can do anything regarding housing or health, let us attempt to elect a Government. That is what we have come here for. Both parties are essentially right. I believe the Dáil should sit again to discuss the serious issues of housing and so forth. The preferred option of the people of Ireland would be that a Government would be elected to deal with the problems...
- Business of Dáil (22 Mar 2016)
John Halligan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his kind deliberations. We need to bring some commonsense to the House today. Today we are to discuss the issue of housing, homelessness and migration within the European context. We have spent the past two years discussing these issues. We need ideas to come from the House. We need motions on which we can deliberate and vote so decisions can be made. I...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (10 Mar 2016)
John Halligan: It is regrettable that already three Deputies have been attacked essentially because people on the Government side of the House did not like what they said. I refer to Deputies Cullinane, Ross and Pearse Doherty. The fact remains that the people voted for these Deputies because of what they said on the doorsteps and the manifestoes they put to the people. Have we not learned that this is...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (10 Mar 2016)
John Halligan: I also wish to acknowledge the new Deputy for Waterford, Deputy Butler. They have dealt this deck of cards and have told us this is what they want. Are we seriously thinking that in the very near future, in a few months, we can go back to the people and say, "We are not happy with how you voted; would you please vote again". We cannot do that. We have a responsibility to the people of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: Given its proximity to the accident and emergency unit, I have no doubt the new scanner provides improved access. There is no question about that. However, the issue is that the current waiting time for a CT scan in University Hospital Waterford is still six months. I already made the point that 16,500 examinations were carried out in 2014 and patients suspected of having heart disease or...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: This is not the time to be scoring political points.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: This is not the time to be scoring points against those who are ill. The Minister knows damn well that on many occasions there have been opportunities to discuss the issue of the hospital and, without being abusive, to score points against the Minister for Health.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: I think the Minister is out of order.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: I am sensitive because the Waterford hospital is in chaos.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: We do not have a 24 hour cardiac care service as the Minister and the previous Minister promised. Trying to score smart political points off me does not do him any justice in view of the thousands of people on waiting lists in Waterford.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: The Minister should have concentrated on answering the question about the CT scanner instead of trying to score political points.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: Waterford hospital is in chaos and the Minister knows that. He should go down and pay a visit to some of the nurses and staff and they will tell him what it is like.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: 59. To ask the Minister for Health why it took 11 months to redeploy staff from an old computed tomography, CT, scanner in University Hospital Waterford to a new scanner which opened in April 2015; if he is aware that the older machine was in perfect working order when it was taken out of use; if the hospital ever made an application for additional staff in order that both machines could be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: The new CT unit at University Hospital Waterford was officially launched by the Minister's predecessor, Deputy Reilly, in 2014 at a cost of €1.75 million. The new scanner was explicitly described at the time as a second CT unit for the hospital. It has come to my attention that the original CT scanner, which the Department has confirmed is in perfect working order, was closed once...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Equipment (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: I thank the Minister. I was present on the day the then Minister, Deputy Reilly, described it as a second CT scanner for Waterford. He told us it would provide improved access to patients for CT diagnostic services and that Waterford would finally have two CT scanners based on the fact that over 16,500 examinations were carried out in 2014. The new scanner was ready for use in 2014 but the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: 71. To ask the Minister for Health where he has amended the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015, which is shortly due to come before both Houses of the Oireachtas and which will seek to amend the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, to remove the requirement for an equivalence of a certificate of experience for doctors who qualified outside the European Union and who are seeking...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: 74. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds that were allocated to University Hospital Waterford in the recent winter hand-out allowance for overcrowded hospitals; the number of beds allocated, by hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3931/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (2 Feb 2016)
John Halligan: 88. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on agency staff at University Hospital Waterford in each of the years 2013 to 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3934/16]