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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (30 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: 363. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical card review will issue in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36664/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (30 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: 364. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical card review will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36665/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (30 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: 373. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36721/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (30 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: 374. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36722/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (30 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: 375. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a discretionary medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36724/14]
- Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: The contributions we have just heard show the spirit of two good punters and I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. It is great to see the Opposition has such interest in this important Bill as the other side of the Chamber is empty. The Bill provides for the merger of the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority into a single authority, Sport...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: 206. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical card application will issue in respect a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36286/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: 214. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36358/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: 215. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36359/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: I thank all the witnesses who attended this afternoon. We have had a very good meeting and achieved a lot. I thank Mr. Barry Andrews of GOAL for first contacting us about coming here and I thank Ms McKenna from Médecins Sans Frontières for its contact as well. Various other NGOs work in the region, and we cannot forget them. I refer to Plan Ireland, Concern and all the other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: Was the vaccine used on the American doctor successful?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: I thank Ms Brennan. It would be remiss of me not to ask Ms McKenna to say a few words. I do not want her to be the odd one out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: Is there resentment towards NGOs? Tribes have all these customs that foreigners are spreading it and that they did not have it until the foreigners arrived.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: I thank Dr. Fitzpatrick. Does Dr. Bonner wish to contribute on some of the questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: To add to what Deputies Byrne and Durkan have said regarding government awareness and plans the Nigerian Government has in place, Dr. Fitzpatrick spoke about people all having mobile phones. On visits we have made to Africa, we have seen that everybody has a mobile phone. No matter where one goes, in the most isolated regions of Africa, everybody has a mobile phone or maybe two. Has any...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: There the witnesses have it. Members asked a lot of interesting and important questions. There is one question Mr. Andrews might answer for me as well. We have not spoken about the government response in these areas where there is a department of health. I hear stories of ministers leaving the country and that there is no plan put in place by government officials. Maybe Dr. Fitzpatrick...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: I now will bring in our two doctors, Dr. Fitzpatrick and Dr. Bonner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: I have to allow other members to speak, because a number of witnesses wish to respond on the various areas mentioned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: I thank Dr. Fitzpatrick and Mr. Barry Andrews for their presentations, which paint a disturbing and graphic picture of what they witnessed during their time spent at the MSF centres. It is hard not to be moved and motivated by what we have heard. The story of the mother arriving with her four children and her dying within a week or so speaks volumes, as does the description of the death of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Pat Breen: Perhaps Dr. Bonner would also respond to that question when replying to members' questions.