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- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: That is lazy analysis.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: What about Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital?
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The INMO is saying the situation tonight is unprecedented in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Can children be subjected to the maximum waiting time? Are they part of that or is the 20-week target completely separate?
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: In other words, the 20-week target is not completely separate from the 18-month maximum.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: That included last year's bailout.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I thank the Minister for his patience and for staying here. It is appreciated as I would have understood if he had to put his Minister of State in for a while as Our Lady of Lourdes in Drogheda is facing an unprecedented crisis as we speak.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I am not saying that and I am not saying he should leave. I am saying I would have understood. I do not want the Minister in a hospital. The last thing hospitals need is to have politicians floating around. The reality is that there are 30 admitted patients there according to the INMO at the moment.There should be 14 nurses working tonight, but I understand from the INMO that only nine...
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: -----in respect of the lack of orthopaedic and paediatric services after that man retired.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The Government can sit back and relax because it is all Fianna Fáil's fault. That election was over four years ago.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is an easy way of abdicating responsibility and asking what the Government can do because its hands are tied.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Today, the former Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, complained that the Minister for Health was pretending about something. On the questions of targets and maximum waiting times, there are strong hints of pretence. What is a target? What is a maximum waiting time? How do they relate? There is no clarity. In fact, after parsing the Minister's speech and the motion, there...
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Of course it is all someone else's fault from four years ago. The Government entered into office with specific commitments on universal health insurance, which was dropped by the current Minister last summer but has been resurrected in light of the upcoming election. The former Minister, Deputy Reilly, stated that we would need two terms to do it, but little has been done.
- Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The establishment of the HSE did not even take that length of time. The period of two terms was just an excuse for the Government to do very little. It is the Minister's Government that has no health policy. That is frightening. The Minister is crisis managing day in, day out, analysing and stating the obvious. There is no problem in that regard, as he is a good man at stating the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: With regard to the Workplace Relations Bill, we oppose section 72 and I ask the Labour Party in particular to look at that. Members of trade unions and workers throughout the land are very upset about section 72 of the said Bill. It potentially imposes a fee on using the labour relations mechanisms in the State. It is very unfair and is not what I thought those in the Labour Party were...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I propose an amendment that the Minister for Justice and Equality come to this House to clarify the situation regarding crime, justice and policing in light of the events in recent days. I raise the issue of the Slane bypass in County Meath. The Minister, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, who I acknowledge met me before Christmas about the Slane bypass - the Leader arranged that and I was thankful to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: We are trying to make sure you do your job.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The resources are available to prevent it happening in the first place.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Back to the 1990s again.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)
Thomas Byrne: We resourced the Prison Service to make sure dangerous men would not be allowed to escape.