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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which all the facilities including state of the art operating theatres are fully operational at Naas General Hospital; her plans in this regard for the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18075/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the final phase of the Naas Hospital project plan to be completed; the full compliment of facilities including beds then expected to become available; if it is intended to review the bed compliment with a view to an increase in line with demographic trends; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18076/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for the augmentation of the public hospital bed complement in the short term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18078/07]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is intended to review the proposal to locate the new children's hospital adjacent to the Mater Hospital; if she has received or examined the compelling submissions from experts including consultants who are adamant that the previously available site for the children's hospital has greater advantages in terms of future...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the needs of cancer sufferers are best served by the retention of St. Luke's Hospital and the facilities thereat, having particular regard to the extent to which patients have confidence in and rely on the services at St. Luke's which has served Ireland well over the years; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the opposition to the proposed closure of St. Luke's Hospital; if she will review her proposals in this regard in view of the dependency of cancer sufferers on the facilities available at the hospital and the particular ethos that has developed there; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she or the Health Service Executive have studied the extent to which an expanded role in the provision of health services can be undertaken by the network of local health centres here as has been the case in other jurisdictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18083/07]

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: For how long?

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I fully support the motion tabled by my colleague, Deputy Brian Hayes. My first reaction to the co-location concept was amazement because there is no way it can benefit public patients who cannot gain access to hospital beds at present and remain on trolleys and waiting lists. The proposal before us, as my colleague Deputy Coveney has pointed out, will not in any way alleviate the problems...

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: In one minute it is not possible to describe the full degree of my revulsion at the proposal, but I will do my best. In the aftermath of the general election, the Government is ignoring the will of the people. I do not know what people said to the Government candidates, but in the course of the election, not a single person said to us that a great job was being done on the health service,...

Co-location of Hospitals: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: That is right.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: I congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on his elevation to his current office. I hope to have a mutually rewarding relationship with him during the next few years.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Having listened to the debate from my office, the Opposition has it right. Notwithstanding what the Government promised in the course of the election or the fact that because it finds itself in office, it believes it has a moral high ground on which to perch, it can be rightly stated that only one of the parties constituting the Government escaped unscathed in the recent election. One could...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The Tánaiste is an intelligent man, but I do not know whether he realises fully the damage being done to the home, the family and the structure of society as we know it. The new generation is being driven out of Dublin city and forced to commute long distances from all over the country when travelling to the city in the morning and returning home at night. They are being forced to jam our...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Burton referred to individualisation in the tax system and the difficulties for families when both parents are forced to work outside the home. In the United States, the detrimental effects of such circumstances have been labelled "nature deficit disorder". It is increasingly the case in that society that children are deprived of both parents for the duration of every working day to...

Order of Business (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: He will want to get some assurances.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: In the absence of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, will the Taoiseach indicate the intended schedule for publishing the broadcasting Bill and the minerals development Bill, given the emphasis placed on the need for energy and resources at competitive prices, as evidenced in the recent IDA Ireland report?

Order of Business (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Have the heads of the Bill been approved?

European Council. (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: In Afghanistan.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2007)

Bernard Durkan: That is gibberish. The Taoiseach should not go there.