Results 7,741-7,760 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes

Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: I did not.

Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: I said exactly what would happen. I said the Minister was choosing to close Tallaght children's hospital. That is what is happening. The Minister will not get away with misrepresentation.

Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: What will they do after 8 o'clock in the evening?

Hospitals Building Programme (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: With suspected meningitis? What will happen next?

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of recent comments by the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive regarding aspects of the health service, she continues to have confidence that he supports all Government health policies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18002/07]

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: The Minister has informed the House that she is entirely satisfied with the position taken by Professor Drumm and the Health Service Executive, yet in his recent comments on the number of acute beds in the health care system Professor Drumm could not be clearer. He stated that providing more acute beds would not improve the health service or deliver greater efficiency. This position is...

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: Yet the Minister is planning 1,500 extra beds.

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: Interesting as the Gettysburg address is, I am simply interested in the answer to the question. I would like a "yes" or "no" answer. Professor Drumm stated: "I see co-location as being a competitor for the HSE".

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: Is that the Minister's position?

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: That is the exact opposite of what she told the House yesterday, when she spoke about a unified system on the grounds of public hospitals between public and private hospitals. We have now got an admission from the Minister that she sees this competition by the new co-located hospitals against our public hospitals as in order. That is fundamentally different to what she told the House...

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: It was a Government decision.

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: But that——

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: The Minister will not answer.

Departmental Bodies. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: Can I ask a brief supplementary question?

Accident and Emergency Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the finding of the recently published accident and emergency task force report which states that at least seven accident and emergency units are unfit for their purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18003/07]

Accident and Emergency Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: Will the Minister confirm that this damaging report, which showed that seven accident and emergency wards were unfit for purpose, was effectively suppressed until after the general election? The report was published on 1 June but was expected at the end of last year. Why was this bad news left until after the general election? Returning to a point made by Deputy Liz McManus, who will take...

Accident and Emergency Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: Will the Minister accept that the key problems within the accident and emergency departments referred to in the report are the lack of beds and the need for additional capacity? Given that we have missed the stated, firm deadline that by February 2007 no one would be left waiting for more than six hours, what is the latest commitment? Will it be October, November or February 2008? I have...

Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: With a gun to their heads.

Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: When does the Minister envisage the publication of the RKW report? If the report comes to the conclusion that the existing site is not sufficient for the kind of development of a world class tertiary hospital in Ireland, will she reconsider it? Where did the Minister get the information that there is a 40% bed occupancy for the National Children's Hospital in Tallaght? I can tell her that...

Hospital Services. (27 Jun 2007)

Brian Hayes: Maybe she should ask them again.