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- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Wallace is disputing that in the biggest property crash in the world, there was a loss in the value of the assets. There was a loss of book value. These were bubble-inflated prices and the Deputy argues that all of that should have been recovered. I am afraid that when there are very big crashes-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The only way to recover value is to rebuild the economy and get people back to work. That is the only way to recovery.
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 15, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the report by the Minister for Defence regarding service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2014 (back from committee); No. 16, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2015 (back from committee); No. 16a, motion re leave to...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: That is why Sinn Féin voted against tax cuts for lower paid workers.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: With regard to Project Eagle, I am advised the loan sale was executed in a proper manner, and despite all the different charges the Deputy has made, and charges against named individuals who are not in a position to comment or defend their good name in the House-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----but the Deputy has named them nonetheless, I am told the facts are there are no claims of wrongdoing against NAMA. However, the Deputy clearly has issues with regard to the people he has named. Clearly, at the base or back of his particular complaints is probably his own unfortunate experience, to which he has referred on many occasions. Understandably, he has a very strong vested...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: As somebody who was involved in the building trade, I know from some of the public records and the media that he suffered. This does not mean that because he feels a very strong personal sense of grievance, which I understand, that his claims of wrongdoing against NAMA stand up. I said to him before on this that NAMA is answerable to the Committee of Public Accounts. I strongly advise the...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I appreciate the Deputy's concern in the matter, and if he has had no contact with NAMA, I accept that, but I certainly have seen in the public media and I am aware that he was a very fine developer and builder who lost out, as so many others did, in the course of the property collapse in Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----173 extra community beds have been opened and 65 beds have been opened in Mount Carmel, which is now the first public community hospital in Dublin.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The question of emergency departments requires widespread constructive and positive action from hospital management, consultants, senior management and nurses. Some 700 more nurses are employed in the public health service than one year ago.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: There are a total of 35,163 whole-time equivalents, compared to 34,404 whole-time equivalents in October 2014. As recently as a couple of days ago, an OECD report, which was widely circulated in the media, indicated that we have one of the highest ratios of nursing employment among all of the OECD countries. We need extra resources, but we also need to improve management. The emergency...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: As it happens, I know the Mater Hospital extremely well because I have been with people who have used its services, in particular elderly people-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----on many occasions throughout the decades, and not just today or yesterday. I do not know whether the Deputy has been in the Mater Hospital recently, but it probably has one of the best emergency departments in Europe, which is situated in a very fine, improved, refurbished and rebuilt hospital. I do not deny for a moment that there are very serious stressors for very hard-working...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: If we are interested in solutions-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: If the Deputy knows anything and has ever spent nights in an emergency ward or emergency department, she will know one solution which most hospitals could adopt, and which is available in a number of hospitals at the moment, is an urgent assessment unit. Older people can go to a special facility, which the Deputy needs to go and see in operation. I can tell her-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy needs to talk to staff working in emergency departments, nurses and those who work in hospitals with such facilities.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: It is one of the best innovations that has happened in our health system in recent years because it allows chronically ill older persons with medical conditions to be checked out over a number of hours or longer, as required. People do not have to be in the queues to which the Deputy referred. The Deputy is shaking her head. Obviously she has never seen-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Obviously she has never seen these urgent assessment units. We have some of the best staff in the world working in our hospitals.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: It is in everybody's interests to come together and resolve the situation using the industrial relations machinery of the State. The Deputy hardly wants to see nurses going on strike.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: She is not suggesting that she wants that. I accept she does not want to see nurses who work hard going on strike. We want to resolve this issue, which we will do by providing more beds and employing more nurses.