Results 39,541-39,560 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: He lauded it and welcomed it and did not mention the private hospital.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: No public representatives were invited except yourself to your own press release.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: Is that what it was about?
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: At the end of August the Minister wrote to me to state there was no money for phase two.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: It is going into the private hospital tax breaks.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: Will that be for phase two of Blanchardstown hospital?
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: It is what the community of patients wants rather than the consultants.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: Not the consultants but the patients.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: The Minister's only concern is for the consultants.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: Ours at least is for the patients.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: It is now more than 3,000 days since the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government took office and the health service is worse. It is now more than one year, 391 days since the Tánaiste, Deputy Mary Harney, was given a mandate to reform the Department of Health and Children. Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown is an indictment of the Minister's year of failure and the Government's 3,000...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: That was the Minister's answer to me at the end of August.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: That was her answer to me at the end of August.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: In her reply to me last week, she confessed to two meetings at the hospital with consultants and with the developer.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: The Minister should listen.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: I am told that it will now be at least another year before these units can be relocated to long-promised accommodation in the old hospital buildings. The apparent abandonment and long-fingering of phase two of the hospital is a disgrace and a betrayal, particularly of older people in the hospital's catchment area. The Minister, Deputy Harney's only fresh idea concerning the health services...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: The matron.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: Private hospitals will make a small number of investors very rich. Not only will they get public land at Blanchardstown to build on, but they will also be given guarantees of custom from the national treatment purchase fund and their investments can be used to reduce or eliminate their tax bills. This is a sweetheart deal between the Government, the Minister for Health and Children and...
- Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach is very welcome this weekend in Dublin West. Does he propose to come by bus and how longââ
- Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)
Joan Burton: It does becauseââ