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Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What about the medical cards?

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach says he will keep this under review. It is very simple. Girls aged 12 will either get this vaccination this year or not. Those with the means to get it can do so privately and those who do not will be put at risk. The announcement of this vaccination programme did not come out of thin air. It was announced by the Minister for Health and Children and has been withdrawn by...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: She presided over the PPARS fiasco. She was supposed to produce 200,000 additional medical cards and instead she has removed automatic entitlement to the medical card from pensioners. She decided to withdraw this vaccination. The Minister's big idea for providing hospital beds was to turn hospitals into businesses and have them provided by the private sector through co-location. In 2005...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: For how long will the Minister for Health and Children remain in her position? What are the funding difficulties regarding co-located hospitals to which Deputy McGuinness referred on Sunday night?

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I take it from the Taoiseach's forceful reply that the Minister for Health and Children is staying in office.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That answers one of my three questions.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is very exercised about the Opposition opposing the Government, particularly its health measures. We can agree that the measure that was announced by the Minister for Health and Children in August — the immunisation of 12 year old girls against cervical cancer — should proceed. We can agree, across the floor of the House, where the €10 million that is needed to proceed...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If that happens, we will be able to find agreement, across the floor of the House, on at least one measure that will help to protect the health of 12 year old girls. While the Minister is conducting her review, those girls will be getting older and it will be too late to immunise them effectively.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I asked the Taoiseach about the funding difficulties of co-located hospitals because the problems associated with the shortage of beds in our hospitals are increasing once more. The Taoiseach may not be aware of it, but the trolleys and the corridors are full of people who cannot get hospital beds.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has proposed to provide additional beds in our hospitals. Everybody acknowledges that they are required. I admit there is some difference of opinion on the number of beds. Everybody knows that additional beds are required in our hospitals. The Government proposed to get private companies to develop private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals. It believed that such...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is three projects.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is not precise at all.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach did not answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach can do better than that.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: He should answer the questions instead of playing for time.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was befuddling the House with his script.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It was a very poor response.

Office of the Chief State Solicitor. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Yesterday, we had an exchange in the House over what is happening on our streets, the problem with crime and the need to secure convictions. I drew attention to the fact that of the 161 gun murders in the State over the past ten years, there have been only 22 convictions. We are all agreed that to tackle crime effectively, cases must be brought before the court and prosecuted and the people...

Office of the Chief State Solicitor. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not making this case, it was made by the DPP himself.

Office of the Chief State Solicitor. (12 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The DPP stated that he will hand back cases to the Garda to prosecute them in the District Court. That is not a good idea because it means that the gardaí will be tied up in the courts when they should be out detecting crime. Does the Taoiseach agree that this should proceed, that cases currently being prosecuted by the DPP should now be handed back to the Garda for prosecution in the...