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Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If one pushes thousands of accident and emergency cases on to St. Vincent's Hospital, which already is in chaos, there will be more chaos, suffering and lives lost. I appeal to the Minister to do in his review what the people of south County Wicklow and Loughlinstown want, which is to retain the 24-hour accident and emergency service in Loughlinstown hospital and if safety issues exist...

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggested half of the 21,000 people.

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister still has not informed Members when they will get a chance to be consulted on this issue or when his recommendations for the so-called reconfiguration of services will be out in the public domain. Moreover, the Minister is not answering the question about how St. Vincent's Hospital already is unable to cope on a daily basis. He appears to suggest the downgrading of the accident...

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does this mean the Minister has already decided without consultation?

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All those who can afford to will be running off to the Beacon Clinic.

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding his plans to alleviate the escalating trolley problem in accident and emergency units here; if it is his intention to review plans for the downgrading of accident and emergency units in smaller hospitals in view of the worsening problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33484/11]

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some 366 people were on trolleys yesterday, with 34 in Galway, 38 in Drogheda, 31 in St. Vincent's, 27 in Beaumont and 24 in Mullingar. Some 20 people were on trolleys in Wexford before they realised the Minister, Deputy Howlin, was coming down. Additional staff were magicked into the hospital and another ward was opened to get people out of the Minister's way so that it looked nice when he...

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that they are in chaos and are not working? The idea that we get more from less when it comes to accident and emergency units is nonsense. We get less for less and we get more chaos. The only beneficiary of this are the people I hear day in, day out on the radio, such as the Blackrock Clinic and the Beacon Clinic, advertising for people to come to their private accident...

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle did not interrupt anyone else like that.

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are questions.

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that money follows the patient in a situation where there is this level of chaos in accident and emergency units? The patients will walk out of public accident and emergency units, which are being slashed by cuts, and they will be encouraged to walk into private hospitals and public money will follow them. If the Minister wanted to do something about this and make some...

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----he would cut the €500 million or €750 million that is going in subsidies to private consultants-----

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a question. Would it not be better - that is a question - if, instead of cutting staff and budgets in our public accident and emergency units, we cut the subsidies going to private consultants and other private health care providers?

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask a supplementary question?

Child Abuse (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Children First guidelines were first published in 1999, 12 years ago, yet they are still not on a statutory footing. That understandably leads people to be anxious about the commitment of the Government to put them on a statutory footing. Notwithstanding the commitments the Minister is making about them being effectively implemented in many areas, the whole point of putting them on a...

Written Answers — Youth Homelessness: Youth Homelessness (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the announcement that funding to homeless services is being cut by up to 10%, the measures she is putting in place to protect the welfare of homeless children and young persons. [32529/11]

Child Abuse (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the children first guidelines will be put on a statutory footing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32528/11]

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give us a break. Services were privatised throughout the country. There were no campaigns in the remainder of the country.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will debate that issue on another day.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Kehoe must be kidding. Those opposite were responsible for privatising refuse collections and year after year they voted in favour of the imposition of bin charges.