Results 7,561-7,580 of 11,114 for speaker:Damien English
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: I thank my colleague, Deputy Reilly, for sharing time with me. When I look at the counter-motion all I can say is that it is time to get real. Before one can fix a problem one must admit that there is a problem. The dogs on the street know there is a problem with the health service, yet the motion is about clapping each other on the back. Reference is made to the affordability of nursing...
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: They are not statistics; they are real stories. Until the system is fixed, the Minister and her colleagues should not come into the House and clap themselves on the back. No one deserves that when people are still suffering. It is time we got real. Let us be honest and have a proper discussion. In most people's eyes the health service is not working. Perhaps it is working in the...
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: Perhaps the Minister thinks the system is working. If that is the case she should be honest about it. She should let people know what they are going to get from the Government; what the Government intends to give them. Usually when there is debate about public health service cutbacks on the national airwaves the first advertisement seems to be about private health care. I wonder how that...
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: Over one third of applications are waiting for an answer.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: The Minister should not give the impression that-----
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: Good.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: We have not had six years in office.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: I did not ask that.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: And elective surgery.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: With respect, that is not the case.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: No, elective surgeries.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: The Minister should get with the programme.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: It is elective surgery.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: For God's sake.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: No. We want better use of public money.
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: The Minister is in the wrong parliamentary-----
- Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: There are hundreds of people on the waiting lists for elective surgery in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. They now have to go into the system. Where will they get their operations? Will that not add to the Minister's woes and increase these waiting lists? There is, effectively, a full surgical unit which could operate on people but cannot do so because it has been closed. The waiting lists...
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: We know all that.
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: Which we all accept.
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: We did not, but we opposed the cancellation of elective surgery. The Minister should get her facts right.