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

James Reilly: The worst aspect of Thursday's meeting was the crystallisation it offered of what health care under the Minister's stewardship means. Nearly 600 women's files were reviewed and, as I understand it, the 97 that were identified were handed over to HSE officialdom for the women concerned to be contacted. Somebody made a decision on the Minister's watch to let these files pile up in a heap to...

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

James Reilly: With respect, I did not interrupt the Minister.

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

James Reilly: Is that the best the Minister can do? I have declared my interest. Will the Minister declare hers?

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

James Reilly: Is the Minister's interest in her survival or in the care of patients? She wants us to head down the route of the United States where 50 million people have no health insurance. According to Michael Moore's docudrama, Sicko, 18,000 people die there every year because they cannot access medical care. The Minister may not admit it but many on the Government benches recognise that if profit...

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

James Reilly: People forget that the old private hospitals were run by voluntary agencies, mainly religious, and were not for profit. The Minister has demonstrated that she is disengaged. How much time do I have left a Cheann Comhairle?

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

James Reilly: That is good. Where was I?

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

James Reilly: I am not attacking the Minister but rather her policy and her professionalism. She has taken no proper responsibility in her Ministry for accountability and transparency. There is no accountability on the other side of the House. We have a Taoiseach who does not take responsibility for his own affairs and does not hold his Ministers to account. Is it any wonder that this percolates...

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

James Reilly: The Minister has clearly demonstrated that she is disengaged and has no appetite for taking responsibility. She talks the talk but does not walk the walk. She tried to mislead the Dáil in regard to her actions and lack of action. She tried to mislead the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children in regard to the inquiry at Portlaoise General Hospital.

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

James Reilly: I will not.

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

James Reilly: The Minister allowed the Taoiseach to tell this House that the first she knew of the issue at Portlaoise was in August 2007.

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

James Reilly: The Minister received a letter regarding the problems at Portlaoise in 2005.

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

James Reilly: I will ask the Irish people to make up their mind on that, not the Minister or those who follow her sycophantically on this issue. She has supported them and they will support her. Why did the Minister not know about the ultrasounds? Did she not read her own terms of reference?

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

James Reilly: There is an issue regarding the independence of the doctor the Minister appointed to read mammograms. Dr. Ann O'Doherty is a person of impeccable clinical ability and is held in high regard. I have no difficulty with that whatsoever. However, the Taoiseach told this House that she would review everything, that staff, equipment and quality assurance issues would form part of her report....

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

James Reilly: Is this the first contribution to this issue by the Minister, Deputy Cowen, even though Portlaoise is in his own constituency——

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

James Reilly: ——where he held the purse strings?

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

James Reilly: The Minister could have put in place——

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

James Reilly: The Taoiseach stood in this House and told us clearly that there would be triple assessment and pathology, but then he said it never happened. Why did it not happen in the Minister for Finance's constituency?

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

James Reilly: In the past four months, details have been leaked about the concerns over the reading of pathology slides in Cork University Hospital, which reportedly resulted in at least 15 cases of misdiagnosis. Some 15 patients were probably walking around with cancer as the relevant memo states there were signs of malignancy and signs suggestive of malignancy. This went on for four months while the HSE...

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

James Reilly: I will come to that in a moment. Why has it taken four months to come to a conclusion with regard to the cancer patients in Cork University Hospital?

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

James Reilly: The confusion remains. As late as yesterday, the HSE stated that all patients had been seen by a specialist but numbers could not be released as more may need to be contacted. Which is it?