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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Nov 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 627: To ask the Minister for Health to outline the current issues relating to the provision of services and matters that need to be examined in respect of a facility (details supplied). [34674/11]

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Seán Fleming: A Cheann Comhairle, I concur with that.

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Seán Fleming: I have been in this Chamber for 14 years.

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Seán Fleming: I have never before had to take to my feet to seek the attention of the House in this manner.

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Seán Fleming: There has never before been a situation where two hospitals in one county were closed in the space of two weeks-----

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Seán Fleming: -----without any public statement and without the Minister coming in here to explain his thinking.

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Seán Fleming: It is not a HSE decision.

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Seán Fleming: Elderly people are frightened in their beds tonight in Shaen Hospital and in Abbeyleix.

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Seán Fleming: The distress this is causing to the staff and the families of people who are severely ill-----

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Seán Fleming: People in Shaen Hospital were shocked to hear this news this evening.

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Seán Fleming: This is on top of an earlier situation.

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Seán Fleming: I refer to what happened in Abbeyleix two weeks ago.

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Seán Fleming: The Minister has decided to introduce a new policy-----

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Seán Fleming: -----of privatising district hospitals.

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Seán Fleming: This is not a matter for any Member other than the Deputies representing Laois-Offaly.

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Seán Fleming: This affects our constituency.

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Seán Fleming: I will not be asked by any intermediary from anywhere else-----

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Seán Fleming: I fully respect the position of my party leader, as he respects the position of those who have been democratically elected.

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Seán Fleming: If I had an opportunity-----

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Seán Fleming: -----I would have raised this issue by means of a parliamentary question here on the floor.