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Seanad: Cancer Care Services (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Ar an gcéad dul síos, cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I thank the Chair for allowing me to raise this important matter. I refer to the transfer of the breast cancer treatment unit from South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital to Cork University Hospital. The Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, is aware that South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital is an absolute centre of...

Seanad: Cancer Care Services (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Have we completely ruled out the Dublin model of the combined centre? What will happen with the BreastCheck located on the South Infirmary-Victoria Hospital campus? Has that been clarified? Will that move across to CUH?

Seanad: Cancer Care Services (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Will the Minister of State ask the Minister for Health and Children to also examine the combined model?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It was not in the church.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It was the whole body of the people. I was there.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: It was the whole body of the people, not just a percentage.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is out of touch, like the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: They will be outside at 12.30 today. I will bring the Senator out.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Is this the Order of Business?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: That is two quotas the Leader has gained.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's party is not catering for them now.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader is flip-flopping again.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: And wisdom.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Contracts were signed and the bill must be paid.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator supported the budget measure last week.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Senator Leyden has made the case for the new name of Fianna Fáil, which should be the flip-flop party. Yet again, he has underlined the double-speak of Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I am coming to that.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I understand why some Senators on the Government side are upset because they will not be there for long more.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Like Senator Fitzgerald, I ask the Leader to hold the debate today on No. 24, motion 25, today. In so doing, I ask him whether he and the Members on the Government side defend the savage attack on the elderly. If we are serious about politics, then today is a day when we should have a debate about the fact that over the past seven days, elderly people have made sacrifices in taking...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We were accused in this House of playing politics. We have not played politics with it.