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Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: Will Fianna Fáil be the stem or the stern of the boat? That is what we want to know.

Hospital Waiting Lists. (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: Is it Question No. 70?

Health Services. (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the €71 million the Health Service Executive failed to spend on capital projects in 2006 can be carried over to fund capital development in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17731/07]

Health Services. (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: I thank the Minister. Will she also answer Question No. 139?

Health Services. (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his seat of office. I look forward to happy days working with him.

Health Services. (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: I also welcome the Minister back to her old seat as the Minister for Health and Children. It is amazing that €25 million of the €71 million is to be returned to the Exchequer. Why was Bantry General Hospital's orthopaedic service withdrawn four years ago? While orthopaedic facilities had been available for years, they were withdrawn for some unknown reason. A minor fracture cannot be...

Health Services. (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: Kidney dialysis patients must also travel from south-west Cork and south Kerry for treatment. It is a pity that Deputy Healy-Rae is not present to support me. Perhaps he is too engaged elsewhere getting his package ready. Why can kidney dialysis treatment not be provided in Bantry General Hospital? There would be no need to return €71 million to the Exchequer. Where is the €97.7...

Health Services. (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: My going back to south-west Cork without an answer to why we do not have the facilities would be no good.

Health Services. (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: I can be half the way to Dáil Éireann and still be in County Cork.

Ministers and Secretaries (Ministers of State) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: This appointment of extra junior Ministers is a bizarre arrangement. A senior Minister should be responsible for the full ambit of responsibilities within his or her Department. A junior Minister should act within that ambit. From my experience in Dáil Éireann I found that junior Ministers were necessary only in so far as their subordinates are concerned. To my mind, this constitutes...

Ministers and Secretaries (Ministers of State) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: Is it merely a case of rubber stamping?

Ministers and Secretaries (Ministers of State) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: With no disrespect to Deputy Máire Hoctor, whom the Taoiseach will appoint Minister of State with responsibility for the elderly, why did he overlook the experience in this House of the one and only Deputy Mary O'Rourke? She surely should have been appointed to this position.

Ministers and Secretaries (Ministers of State) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: I am not looking for anything, I merely want common sense to prevail.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the €71 million the Health Service Executive failed to spend on capital projects in 2006 can be carried over to fund capital development in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17731/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the location where the €97.7 million, allocated to the Health Service Executive by the Government was due to be spent; the reasons it was not spent; the action she will take to ensure that urgently needed resources are delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17730/07]

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: I congratulate the Minister on his elevation as Minister and I congratulate Minister of State, Deputy Billy Kelleher, a politician from my own county who has been elevated to the post of Minister of State in the Department of the Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The Roads Bill 2007 will create major freeflow roads for the major cities but nothing for my region of the south west. I remind...

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: In the five years of my absence from this House, not one thing has changed in so far as south-west County Cork is concerned.

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: They are still in Government but there are no results from that long-term power-sharing arrangement. They are now with the Greens, the Progressive Democrats and Independents. The Taoiseach's purse must be greater than Séadna's purse if he can placate and please the five or six Independent Deputies he has brought in behind him as a safety hatch——

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: ——for fear that the Greens might get cold feet and pull out.

Roads Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2007)

P J Sheehan: I await the results and I hope that south-west Cork will be thought of in a better way now. It is to be hoped that some of the largesse that Deputy Jackie Healy-Rae has in the boot of his car and in his briefcase will be diverted to the constituency of Cork South-West as well because we cannot live on fresh air and cold water.