Results 12,081-12,100 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: Thanks very much for the question on the important issue of the children's hospital. It is a project about which people have been talking since the 1960s. If one goes back in the Dáil record-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----the first time it was proposed was in 1962. There have been numerous failed attempts to deliver the project. The Government will deliver it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: It is already under construction.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: The satellite centre in Blanchardstown is built and will open to patients this year, followed by the centre in Tallaght next year and the main hospital in 2023. Decades of promises will actually be delivered on by the Government, something that the children of Ireland need and deserve. I appreciate that it is right and appropriate to talk about the cost and the cost overruns, but we should...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: There will be 380 individual rooms for children who are sick-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----with space for their parents to stay overnight, proper infection control which we do not have now in hospitals-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----a 60-bed ICU for children who are very sick or need major surgery-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----five MRI scanners and room for more-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----20 ultrasound scanners and 22 theatres.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: There will be 22 theatres where we now have 14.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: There will be two cath labs, a 20% increase in inpatient capacity and a 25% increase in day capacity.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: There will be a 50% increase in outpatient capacity. This is an enormous asset-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----and something that children need. I am very disturbed to hear Opposition Members suggesting the project should be suspended-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: -----because by suspending it-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: Some of you have.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: By suspending it, it will be further delayed and cost even more.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: I am very disturbed to hear those calls from some elements of the Opposition.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: To answer the Deputy's question-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: To answer the-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Leo Varadkar: To answer the Deputy's questions, the Minister for Health was first made aware of an issue surrounding rising costs at the national children's hospital in August. He did the right and appropriate thing.