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Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: -----reforming our hospital services.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: We are appointing hospital groups-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: -----centred on the teaching hospitals and the universities and medical schools they are linked to. The smaller hospitals within the catchment will be tied to larger hospital groups. This is about making best use of the hospital services. It is about where is the best place to have the major equipment and concentration of specialists, and how to use the smaller hospitals to do the elective-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The reform is being done.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy should not try to scratch around reports to find something in desperation.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: This is about-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is the health spokesperson for his party and when this report was published on Tuesday, his correct attitude was to be broadly supportive of it.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: He has spent two days trying to scratch through it to see if he can find something in it to criticise.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not pretty or convincing. Our hospitals are being reformed in a modern way and the Deputy's party failed for 14 years to reform our hospital services.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: This Government will reform our hospitals and provide a better quality of hospital care for the people of this country.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: This issue concerns the fixed charge penalty points. When serious allegations were made last September that some gardaí had improperly cancelled fixed charge notices in respect of road traffic offences, the Minister for Justice and Equality asked the Garda Commissioner to investigate those allegations and the Garda Commissioner, in turn, had an investigation conducted which produced a...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: With this issue, there were approximately 1.4 million fixed charge penalty point notices issued. In some cases - less than 5% - the points were cancelled, and approximately half of those cancellations arose from technical reasons, such as the speed sign being in the wrong place, incorrect identification of a car, etc. In turn, a number of cases were cancelled because of common-sense...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: As Deputy Kelleher will be aware, on Tuesday the Minister for Health brought proposals to the Government which will result in the reorganisation of public hospitals into more efficient and accountable hospital groups that will deliver improved outcomes for patients. This represents the most fundamental reform of the Irish acute hospital system in decades. Professor Higgins's report on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I am aware of the report released by Human Rights Watch on 22 April concerning the ongoing situation in Rakhine State - also known as Arakan State - in Myanmar/Burma. I am deeply concerned by the reports of grave human rights violations, including allegations of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. On 21 March 2013, the UN Human Rights Council, of which Ireland is currently a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I have closely followed developments in relation to the Basque Country, including the outcome of the San Sebastian Conference in October 2011 and the subsequent declaration by ETA on 20 October 2011 that the organisation had “decided on the definitive cessation of its armed activity”. As I have said previously, the Government supports any development that could lead to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I would refer the Deputy to my reply to the earlier Priority Question on this topic. Reports suggest that, as in an earlier episode in January, a convoy delivering advanced weapons including missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon was attacked. The missiles were said to have been supplied originally by Iran. A Syrian army base on the outskirts of Damascus seems also to have been hit: this is said to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to take Questions Nos. 14 and 86 together. To date this year, the Middle East Peace Process has been discussed at both the January and February Councils and at the informal Ministerial meeting which I co-hosted in Dublin in March. It is expected that this issue will again be discussed at the next Foreign Affairs Council meeting in May, although the agenda for this meeting has not...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I am aware of the allegations that chemical weapons have been used in Syria. Any use of chemical weapons would have appalling humanitarian consequences, is clearly contrary to international legal norms and must be utterly condemned. British, French, US and Turkish intelligence sources have indicated that material they have recovered indicates the possible use of the nerve agent sarin. At...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Cross-Border Projects (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to take Questions Nos. 16 and 44 together. The Government strongly supports the INTEREG IVA Narrow Water Bridge project. The bridge would open up the cross-border Cooley, Mournes, and Gullion region to many more visitors, making it much easier for residents, businesses and tourists to travel and to interconnect. As well as the long-term tourism and infrastructural benefits...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (16 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I am aware of the case to which the Deputy refers. The Irish Embassy in Tel Aviv has carefully monitored this case, and has been in contact with the person in question on a number of occasions. The Embassy is handling the case in accordance with the wishes expressed by the person.