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- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Fianna Fáil attacked me last year-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: -----for introducing a Supplementary Estimate in excess of €600 million for the health services.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: I believe its spokesman will attack me again for introducing a Supplementary Estimate.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: We have put that €600 million into the base for next year and more money besides. We have done the analysis on how to alleviate pressure on emergency departments this year and have allocated €135 million to the individual-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: They do not want to listen. The Deputies opposite want to shout down the facts-----
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Brendan Howlin: -----because they are only interested in shouting about problems. They have no interest whatsoever in solutions.
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Brendan Howlin: They have no solutions. They have no policies for solutions.
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Brendan Howlin: They thrive in the issues-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: They thrive in having no solutions.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: We have a very clear set of measures to deal with problems in emergency departments. Of course issues will arise, as the Taoiseach said yesterday. It is very complicated. It arises in every emergency service around the globe. If the Deputies opened their eyes, they would know that. I have had discussions with the OECD on international health care to review models that work, as the...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: A particular question was asked about ambulances. Some 64 new ambulances have been provided at a cost of €9.4 million.
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Brendan Howlin: We need to ensure they are available-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: -----on rosters and that they meet the timelines we have set. We are determined to achieve that.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: As the Deputy will know, the issue of job creation has been the absolute top priority for the Government since we came to office. We have reduced the unemployment rate from heading towards 500,000 when we came into office and 15.2% at its peak to 9.3% this week. This week's figures indicate that youth unemployment has fallen below 20% for the first time since 2009. We are now at or just...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Our responsibility as a national Parliament, and the specific responsibility of the national Government, is to ensure we have resources and staffing in place to deal with the health needs of our people.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: In preparing for this winter, that is what we have been trying to do, not just this week but from the end of last year. Resources have been deployed and we took the advice of the task force on how we could relieve pressure on accident and emergency units. It advised us to provide more resources for the fair deal scheme and we provided €44 million in additional money for that this...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: We have 700 net additional nurses.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: Is 700 additional nurses not enough?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: What is enough? We need to have a debate on this. I know the normal, default position of Opposition is to say that, whatever there is, it is not enough and the Government must provide more. We must also have a grown-up debate in this House on how we deploy resources effectively and maybe one day we will. At the beginning of this year I asked each sectoral committee, including the health...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Brendan Howlin: We spend more money on our health services than the OECD average, though our health demographics are poorer.