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Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: I understand it will come before the House late this year.

Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: I am suggesting the Deputy is trying to breach a wall which will not be breached before 7 May.

Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: I understand it will be introduced later this year.

Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: We have not promised legislation in the House on that.

Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: I am very surprised to hear he has not——

Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: I would have thought there would be the most intense co-operation between those two parties.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: It is proposed to take No. 11, motion re Standing Order 99; and No. 19, the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008 — Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 11 shall be decided without debate; Private Members' business, which shall be No. 34 — motion re World Trade Organisation, shall take place on the conclusion of No....

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: It is very important to point out that there are many improvements taking place in the health service. Obviously there are issues but if the Leader of the Opposition's tactic is to come in and talk about a particular case where there is a difficulty and suggest that the sorting out of that difficulty alone is to sort the health service is a rather simplistic and facile approach and analysis....

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: The whole purpose of the reforms we are pursuing is to achieve that.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: To deal again with the first matter, the point I am making is that of course one hopes that the management and staff within the health service can accommodate any person who is an emergency case or where there is a particular issue arising. That is a responsibility for the management and staff to work out themselves. The operational responsibility is there. I am simply making the point...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: If we are going to have order in the House——

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: The Deputy is not in order. If there is any way we can sort out those problems, of course we will seek to sort them out.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: We cannot have a debate on health if Deputies are just going to keep shouting. That does not solve anybody's problems.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: It is neither intelligent nor rational.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: What has been happening in the last number of years——

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: Are we going to have a debate or a shouting match?

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: No.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: I will tell Deputies the situation. The reforms have to continue in terms of resolving these problems. On the Mater Hospital——

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: With regard to the Mater Hospital, it took a considerable number of months——

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Brian Cowen: I am sorry, Deputy McManus, I am replying to the leader of the Labour Party, who is in order.