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Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Do I take it the Taoiseach is continuing with the existing legislation programme——

Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——or will there be a new legislation programme?

Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will a new list be circulated if there are changes?

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Almost three years ago, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, announced plans to hand over sites of public hospitals for the building of super-private clinics. She argued at the time that there were two reasons for this decision. First, she said if she provided 1,000 private beds in the hospital system a similar number of public beds would be freed up. Second, she said that...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was Minister for Finance for the past five years.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have to wonder what Seán Lemass would have thought of that answer. He was a champion of public service and I cannot see him providing medicine for profit in the way the present Government is doing. I did not ask the Taoiseach for the rationale behind the strategy. I understand the rationale, but I do not agree with the thinking behind it. I did not ask the Taoiseach to repeat that here...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was Minister for Finance for the past five or six years.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This, presumably, crossed his desk and, in fact, he answered Dáil questions about it last year when he told the House that the total cost in terms of tax reliefs for this approach would be somewhere between €400 million and €500 million. That is what it is going to cost the taxpayer.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is going to cost the hospital system €145 million per year in lost income from insured patients. I ask the Taoiseach again, and I want him to provide answers, where will these hospitals be provided? That is not a hard question. Presumably the Taoiseach has been looking at this issue for the past couple of years. Will he give the House the list of hospitals that will be provided under...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is what the Taoiseach said he would do but he is not doing it.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Never mind nursing homes. I will ask about that some other day.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I asked a simple straightforward question.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach answer the question I asked?

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach get them?

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government is——

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We are not asking about that.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There is no delivery.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has not provided any systems. It has done things its own way.

Corporate Procurement Plans. (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the corporate procurement procedures operating within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4660/08]