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Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: ——extending the facilities in a number of areas of treatments, improving the urgent care centre——

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: That was part of the question.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I also referred to prostate cancer services. These will be important services——

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: ——including finalising the remaining beds that we need for public hospitals. That, of course, includes dealing with the issue of co-location. The position is that I am not signing any contracts. The HSE, on eight contracts——

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: If they do not want to hear what is happening, there is no point in me speaking.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I apologise if I am provoking the Opposition. The Government is trying to make available, against the wishes of the Opposition, more beds so that more public patients will be involved in hospitals.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The HSE is responsible for that. It seems desirable to this side of the House to reduce waiting lists even further than the reduction by half we achieved in recent years and to eliminate them if possible. To do that, we will need more beds.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: If the Deputy would co-operate with us, we might do so more quickly.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Stagg does not want to hear what I have to say about public hospital beds. Currently there are several thousand private beds in public hospitals and there is no access for public patients. We are endeavouring to build co-located private hospitals so that those private beds can move out of public hospitals and be designated private hospitals. The same consultants would be able to...

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Rabbitte is entitled to say that if he is elected to power he will close the tax incentives for private hospitals. There are no super private hospitals. They are the same tax incentives that have given us 7,500 nursing home units. If his policy is opposed to what we have created successfully, he is entitled to do that. Deputy Rabbitte may say that I am using weasel, sleeveen words,...

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I ask the Deputy to listen.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: We said we would provide additional public beds.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: This is a way of doing so. Deputy Rabbitte is trying to block the Government hand over fist for a different industrial relations reason——

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: ——which I am aware of because I have listened to the union side in this. The Deputy is opposing the Government's efforts to provide additional public beds.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: That is the end result of his campaign.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: It is not ridiculous, it is a fact. The HSE is involved in negotiations and Deputy Rabbitte should know but clearly does not — as is more likely, he wants to mislead — that the entire health Vote is in the hands of the HSE.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The HSE is the negotiator on the issue. That is one of its functions and, unfortunately, Deputy Rabbitte sought to misinterpret the matter.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: It is amazing that the Deputy needs so much help. Is Deputy Allen and Fine Gael opposed to co-location?

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: Will he also change the tax law?

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2007)

Bertie Ahern: Is the Deputy opposed to changing the tax law?