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- Topical Issue Debate: Garda Stations (3 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: So did we, but it seems that the priority the Government is giving to Stepaside does not equal that of Sligo. Therefore, why would I not give Stepaside as an example.
- Topical Issue Debate: Garda Stations (3 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I am joined by my colleague from Sligo-Leitrim, Deputy Eamon Scanlon. Deputy Tony McLoughlin is also present, and I know this matter is very close to the heart of Deputy Martin Kenny. It concerns Sligo Garda station, a regional and divisional headquarters which houses an assistant commissioner, a chief superintendent, a superintendent, 140 gardaí and 20 civilians. For many years it...
- Topical Issue Debate: Garda Stations (3 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: As is so often the case, all people are equal but some are more equal than others. Just because Deputies McLoughlin, Scanlon, Martin Kenny and I did not stand bearing gifts, as Santa Claus Ross did outside the Step Inn at Christmas 2015, it seems the OPW is pressing ahead and is at an advanced stage of reopening the semi-derelict building in Stepaside, and this was confirmed by the acting...
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome that the Minister is considering expanding the NTPF to include outpatients. He should do that as a matter of urgency. The trend is accelerating. We must have an answer to the question. Is it a question of resources or of management? What is the problem in Sligo? A sixfold increase, regardless of the percentage of the overall total, is completely unacceptable in a six-month...
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 8. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the 18-month target for outpatient appointments set by his predecessor has yet to be met at Sligo University Hospital. [40988/17]
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Why is the 18-month target for outpatient appointments set by the Minister's predecessor, now Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, yet to be met at Sligo University Hospital?
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: This target has not been met once in the past two years. While the Minister has correctly said that the number is 567, the response he gave, which was prepared by someone in the HSE, is a celebration of all that is not happening. The number increased from 73 in February to 123 in March to 182 in April to 297 in May to 353 in June to 437 in July and to 567, as the Minister rightly said, at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: For clarification, does the Commissioner mean 39?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: One hundred and thirty nine were closed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the acting Garda Commissioner and wish him the very best of luck. Some issues have already been covered by my colleagues. Perhaps we could just recap so that I am crystal clear. We have established that the criteria to close and open stations are the same.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: More or less? They are either the same or they are not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Did those same criteria apply to the reopening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: There is no need. Deputy Kelly has already done so and I am also aware of those three criteria. We do not need to repeat them. The acting Garda Commissioner said that the criteria were absolutely the same. He said that several times. Is that still the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: The same criteria were used to close Stepaside as to open Stepaside. We have established that Stepaside was the only one of a potential six stations to be reopened; that the criteria were the same; and the decision was based on the interim report. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: When the acting Garda Commissioner gave us the commitment that he would make that report available, did the Secretary General, Mr. Noel Waters, personally ring him?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Did somebody further down the trough?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: An Garda Síochána made a recommendation to Government in the interim report that six stations be reopened. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: How then did Stepaside happen to be the one and only station that An Garda Síochána decided to reopen? At this particular juncture, as the acting Garda Commissioner said, there was other work to be completed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I am still not clear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Did Mr. Ó Cualáin have a previous position that one of the reopenings had to be in Dublin?