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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect a hospital appointment. [9256/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: 425. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect a hospital appointment. [9657/19]

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: Hear, hear.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: The Deputy is happy now.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: The Minister of State is right.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: I can put the previous speakers out of their misery by confirming that we did initially have concerns about the public services card being the sole means to identify oneself.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: That is not the case. A separate process on this specific issue is now under way involving the Data Protection Commissioner. The Attorney General's advice has to be taken on board as well. It might be easy for some not to do that, or to disregard it, but precedent demands that we do.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: We cannot ignore the precedents and their potential impacts. For those reasons we will be supporting the amendments as they are laid before the House today. I make no apologies for that. I respect and appreciate the input of others on this issue, and accept their bona fides and commitment. I am merely outlining our response to the amendments before us and the assurances that have been...

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: I wish to share time with Deputy Thomas Byrne.

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: We all know the origins of and reasons behind the Further Revised Estimates. They are the result of the Government's mismanagement of the process to deliver the national children's hospital. We are well aware that there are many outstanding questions about how we arrived at this sorry state of affairs, as indicated in the Minister's apology to the House last week. When was he first...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: This motion is a new act of hypocrisy on the part of Sinn Féin. Earlier I heard Deputy Pearse Doherty eventually admit that he and Sinn Féin do not want an election and do not want to bring down this Government, yet in tabling this motion they expect Fianna Fáil to break the terms of an agreement and not cause an election. Thankfully, for the country's sake and our sake, Sinn...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: Excuse me, mister. Notwithstanding ongoing and continued questioning-----

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: Yes. Some Sinn Féin Deputies have that title, unfortunately.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: Deputy Cullinane should stick to Waterford and see how he gets on. Notwithstanding ongoing and continued questioning of the Government on the children's hospital, and notwithstanding the Government's meandering responses to date, its secrecy, its hiding behind FOI legislation and its efforts to manage the news rather than the Department of Health, our concern and our commitment is to get...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: You do not like it, do you?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: We all participated in, signed up to and welcomed the overwhelming support in this country for the Good Friday Agreement. At a time when that agreement could provide for a Government that could lead and win the rewards associated with a successful all-Ireland economy and all-Ireland integration, ensuring an economic future and, most of all, security and peace in this country, what did Sinn...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: What has it done every time when it has come to playing a match fair and square and for those whom it represents?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: It walked off the pitch again.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: If we depended on his backup, we would be a long time waiting for Deputy Brady to be on the pitch.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: Sinn Féin will not be love-bombing us, that is for sure.