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- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: Before I took this position, the 2,000 people annually who had breast cancer were not being treated in the excellent way they are being treated today where 75% of them get top quality breast surgery in this country. We have a huge success rate in breast surgery.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: We are doing a top class job for those women which did not happen in the past. I am very proud of the fact we are doing that and of the resources we are putting into our hospitals to do that. Some â¬0.5 billion per year is being allocated to the capital programme to improve the hospitals.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: In the case of the Office of the Attorney General, the Committee for Performance Awards approved awards in May 2007 in respect of 2006 to the Deputy Director General and two Advisory Counsel Grade I totalling â¬45,800.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The scheme of performance-related awards in the civil service applies to Deputy and Assistant Secretaries and equivalent grades. It does not apply to Secretaries General. Details of awards to individual officers under the performance related scheme are not disclosed on the basis that they are confidential to the officer concerned. However, I can say that during 2007 awards totalling...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The number of staff in my Constituency Office, their costs to the Exchequer and expenses for the full year ended 31 December, 2006* are listed in the table below. Taoiseach's Constituency Office Number of Civil Servants 8 Number of Non-Civil Servants 1 Salaries: including allowances and overtime for Civil Servants â¬249,750 Salaries: including allowances and overtime for non-Civil...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The number of staff in my Private Office, their costs to the Exchequer and expenses for the full year ended 31 December, 2006* are listed below. Taoiseach's Private Office No. of Civil Servants 13 No. of non-Civil Servants 0 Salaries of Civil Servants (incl. allowances & overtime) â¬663,983.43 Salaries of Non-Civil Servants (incl. allowances & overtime) Nil Travel & Subs expenses...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: There are two Ministers of State assigned to my Department â the Government Chief Whip, Mr. Tom Kitt, T.D. and the Minister of State for European Affairs, Mr. Dick Roche, T.D. Only the Government Chief Whip's Constituency Office is based in my Department. The Constituency Office of the Minister of State for European Affairs is based in the Department of Foreign Affairs. The number of...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 94 to 96, inclusive, together. There are two Ministers of State assigned to my Department â Government Chief Whip, Mr. Tom Kitt, T.D. and the Minister of State for European Affairs, Mr. Dick Roche, T.D. The number of staff in each of the Private Offices of those Ministers of State assigned to my Department, their costs to the Exchequer and expenses for the...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The HSE has apologised to all of the women involved for the delay in diagnosis. Everyone is concerned about these eight women and it is important that the requisite treatment and counselling services have been put in place in respect of them. The Minister for Health and Children was informed on 29 August last that following concerns raised by the relevant staff, the HSE had established a...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I do not wish to discuss why somebody is on administrative leave. I will, however, outline to the Deputy the advice I received. I am informed that there was no systems failure involved. When the recruitment process took place, one person applied for the post. That individual was taken on to fill the position but is now on administrative leave. Those who run the 35 hospitals to which I...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The Deputies should please not interrupt me. Nobody interrupted Deputy Kenny.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: Last week, people in the House stated that we should have all of these centres.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: People should cop on. If individuals want to politicise this matter, we can do so.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: We have taken on 70 additional consultants in this area. We need to maximise investment in state-of-the-art facilities, with full multidisciplinary teams. Professor Keane is due to take up his post on 19 November. He is expected to quickly designate national clinical leaders in the areas of radiation, surgical and medical oncology. Arrangements are in hand to enable him to take control of...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
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- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I do not have time to set it out in one minute. It was all published last year and Deputies can look at it. What we should do in this House is try to make the necessary reforms to ensure these issues do not happen. The best way to do so is to make sure we have state-of-the-art, well-organised and well-focused multidisciplinary teams in a limited number of locations where we can give people...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I will try to answer most of those questions. I understand it was around 29 August, or perhaps a week before.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: On 29 August.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The reason was that one of the senior consultants had concerns about the diagnoses and as I understand it â I want to be fair to people and due process â the mammograms being read by one consultant showed different results to another consultant's reading of them. As I stated, a consultant is on administrative leave because of this. Consultant Ann O'Doherty of St. Vincent's Hospital and...