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Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: ——-addressing health and safety——

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: ——in their accident and emergency units. As I stated, I believe all——

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I do not believe that €70 million amounts to that.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The home care packages——

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: ——and the buying of beds from the private sector are progressing.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: We are contracting out long-term nursing care beds and providing acute medical units for non-surgical patients at Tallaght, St. Vincent's and Beaumont hospitals. We are ensuring that access to GPs is provided outside normal working hours. All of these measures are being implemented.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: They are having a sizeable impact in most of the hospitals.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Government works on these issues so there is no need for me to intervene personally. Everybody is involved. The home care packages try to improve the flow in those hospitals that have a difficulty. These are mainly the Dublin hospitals and a few others around the country. The packages will free up an additional 500 beds occupied by older people. The only way to deal with this issue is to...

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: No, it is 28.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: If the Deputy can count better than those who produced the official figure, then it is 35.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I am giving the Deputy the official figures. If he does not want to——

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The number of people on trolleys in accident and emergency units is as follows: seven in Cork University Hospital, three in Tralee, four in the Mercy in Cork, six in Drogheda and zero in Louth, Monaghan and Navan hospitals. There are some——

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I am just making the point.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The country does not stop on the outskirts of Dublin.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Irish Nurses Organisation may point out to me that there is a problem in certain hospitals, which I know, but it could also point out there are many hospitals where there is no problem.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Howlin knows in his heart that people moved to Waterford because there was no problem in Waterford that day. Was that not a sensible thing to do? Did he want more people in Wexford?

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It is nice to see Deputy Howlin has turned up today. He has not been here for weeks. I have answered Deputies Rabbitte and Howlin.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It happens every week.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Yesterday there were just over 200 people in accident and emergency units awaiting beds.

Leaders' Questions. (26 Apr 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The official figure for yesterday supplied by the Department of Health and Children is just over 200, not 249.