Results 261-280 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Food Labelling. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: What about hormones and antibiotic use?

National Cancer Strategy. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: It would be erroneous of the Minister to place all her emphasis on existing resources instead of discussing additional funding. Has she not placed Professor Keane in an invidious situation? He has just arrived, yet decisions have already been made about where the centres will be located and the number to be established. He will have to unravel those arrangements if he does not agree....

National Cancer Strategy. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: I am not in favour of removing services until their replacements have been established. I and members of the public will be pleased when the new services are up and running.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: I concur with the comments made by my colleagues. Speech and language waiting times can vary from several months to two years. A small child in my area of Dublin North has been waiting nine months for this service. The child's parents must wait and worry before they can find out whether the child has dyslexia, autism or Asperger's syndrome. Schools are restricted in terms of the number of...

Written Answers — Nursing Education: Nursing Education (22 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the numbers of nursing students leaving training for the past six years from areas of general nursing, mental health, and intellectual disability; the number by location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30357/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (22 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that it is official Health Service Executive and her Department policy that the communicative value of Irish speaking NCHDs particularly in Gaeltacht areas is considered to be irrelevant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30375/07]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (22 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on granting leave to remain or extending the visa of persons (details supplied) on humanitarian grounds as the two people in question assist their daughter who is a widow and they are financially independent and not a burden on the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30371/07]

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: That is a good challenge. Throw down the gauntlet.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: She speaks of it, but does not implement it.

Order of Business (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: After 11 years, that is rich.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: I wish to share my time with Deputies Enright and Flanagan.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: I have been a Member of this House only for five or six months and the Minister's performance is the best I have seen from any Minister to date. Today is the first time I have seen raw emotion and the first time I have seen the Minister speaking without notes for quite a while.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: I did not speak during the Deputy's speech and ask that the same courtesy be extended to me. I have a question for Dr. Devins and those on the other side of the House. Why is it only when the Minister's job is on the line that we see this emotion, devotion and talk of patient-centred care? This Minister talks the talk but she does not walk the walk. She provides over a health system that...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: The Minister promised these wonderful centres of excellence some time in the future while simultaneously stripping existing services with immediate effect in 13 hospitals throughout the State. These cutbacks involved a reduction in breast cancer services in Galway from five days to three days per week, despite its being one of the designated regional centres of excellence which was to serve...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: I heard what the Minister said on this issue and what John O'Brien of the national hospitals office said. The letter was passed on to the HSE, which passed it on to the network manager, who in turn passed it to the hospital manager. That is the account I received from Mr. O'Brien at the meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children last week.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: The letter was passed on to the hospital manager, who interviewed the consultant concerned, Dr. Naughton. Once it was established that no operations had taken place, that was the end of the matter. The substantive issue in the letter — that the radiology service in Portlaoise was shambolic — was never addressed.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: To rub salt into the wound, the very locum who had been providing the service about which he complained was appointed in a permanent capacity. That is somebody taking a hands-on approach.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: The Minister did not even read the letter.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: At last Thursday's meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children, the Minister said it made no difference because it had been dealt with in a thorough and robust fashion.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: If the Minister's idea of thoroughness and robustness results in what has been the blackest day in the health service for 25 years, I suggest, on that point alone, that she should leave now and not come back. That type of robustness and thoroughness will be the death knell for many people if it is allowed to be repeated.