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Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, is engaging with the parties and then we will see where we are. This is an entirely reasonable position for us to hold and I did not give any other impression today as was reported outside the House.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The Carbon Fund Bill is before the House.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I will send a note to the Deputy about that legislation.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: This legislation should be finalised and I will ask that it is brought back to the House.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The Bill is due this year.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: It will be brought forward this year.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: As the Deputy said, it fell off the wagon.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The Bill is due in the early part of this year, before the summer.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The summer ends on 1 August.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: As regards the Indecon report, I do not know the position. As far as I know, I have dealt with the other issue.

Order of Business (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: As I understand the substantive issue, my officials talked to its legal representatives.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The Deputy raised two questions but I believe I answered the one on beds last week. In addition to the HSE's own beds, the number of beds contracted by it this year amounts to approximately 1,300. Some 360 beds are being made available through the private sector, including 220 in the greater Dublin area, 100 in the south and 40 in the western region. Another 1,050 have been taken from the...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Kenny should at least research his facts. BreastCheck involves diagnostic work, mainly for women over 50. It is on a precautionary and preventative basis that it is being rolled out. Deputy Kenny may refer to the charter but I launched the programme and am well aware of it.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: That is what BreastCheck is and screening is being rolled out around the country. The treatment work is such that it is necessary to admit certain people on an inpatient basis or to have them attend for further screening, tests, surgery or operations. Deputy Kenny confused the two areas.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The Deputy is correct that it has been said recently that the work cannot be completed by 2011. I cannot accept and have not accepted that additional time is needed to complete the work. The radiotherapy hospitals in Waterford hospital, which only came on stream two years ago, are fully built and operational. The second accelerator unit is working and it is being used by the National...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: They are in Waterford, in Whitfield.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: If he knows, he was at the opening with me, where we went down and saw the accelerators.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I am talking about the Whitfield Clinic, and there is a contract——

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: It is the Whitfield Clinic, which has a contract with the HSE, where women in the south east and other parts of the country are receiving radiotherapy treatments on this day. Is that not true?

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Bertie Ahern: Is it not true that when I was there Deputy O'Shea and others said they would see whether there was a contract signed with the HSE for public patients? Is it not true that this has been done and delivered and that one of the best services in the country is in his constituency, and that I played a part in that?