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- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: Of those who were at board level at that stage, all are gone. This Government will not stand over the featherbedding of any person in any part of the banking system-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government is winding down Anglo Irish Bank and the Deputy and the people can be assured that this Government will act fairly and proportionately to everyone. The Deputy's assertion and others of the kind she makes to the effect that this Government is not supporting people on low pay and that there is a different rule for those on high pay are not borne out by the facts.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: We are winding down that bank, will continue to do so and complete it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Higgins referred to a circular which, I understand, was issued to staff this morning. I have not seen that circular and I do not know what is in it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: No, the Deputy told me his version of what is in it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Higgins described it in apocalyptic terms and referred to it as devastating.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: Let us calm down. As the Deputy acknowledged, the Minister for Health assured him on the 24-hour accident emergency service.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: All hospitals must operate within their budgets. The Government's policy is to ensure that they operate and function in a way that best serves patients.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: This means that there will be changes from time to time in the way in which services are provided in individual hospitals. It also means that there will be changes in the context of the procedures that will be performed in certain hospitals and not in others. In turn, this will mean that there will be implications in respect of the wards that will be used, the number of beds that will be...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: I assure Deputy Higgins that I feel exactly the same way today as I did this time last year or ten years ago-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: -----with regard to the necessity to provide the best possible care for people who become sick and who require hospital services. We must provide that care within the resources available to us.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy should stop his populist claptrap.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Higgins's solution is that we should stop paying the interest. He should realise that one pays interest on money one borrows. If one stops paying the interest, one will no longer be able to borrow. If Ireland were in a position where it could no longer borrow, how would we keep the hospitals open? What would be the position with regard to hospital services in such circumstances?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The idea is that we can have great hospital services if we stop paying the interest on our borrowings. If we stop paying the interest we will have no money to run hospital or other services.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: Let us deal with reality.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: We must provide the hospital services of the best possible quality. This means that we will be obliged to change the way in which some of our hospitals are run-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and the way in which some hospital services are delivered. Those changes are being made. In addition, the Government is committed to the most radical reform of the health services ever seen.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: It is also committed to the introduction of a system of universal health insurance which will ensure that people will have access to a decent health service and decent hospitals and that the best quality of service will be provided at James Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, and at every other hospital in the country.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: That will happen-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: -----not through making the type of broad-ranging, grandstanding statements which Deputy Higgins tends to utter.