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Seanad: Swine Flu Outbreak: Statements (6 May 2009)

Joe O'Toole: We are quick to criticise the Department of Health and Children time and again when things go wrong. The morning after swine flu hit the headlines, one of the British-Irish tabloids carried a front-page story that Ireland was unready, unable and without plans to respond. The Minister and her staff at the Department have handled the matter with the expertise that I look for in Government....

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joe O'Toole: ...be alive if we were to ensure the roll-out of the cancer screening programme to all parts of rural and provincial Ireland. The current position is disgraceful. We are more agitated about avian flu and the possibility of an outbreak of SARS in China than we are about burying many of our own people unnecessarily year after year. We need to address that. The Minister for Health and Children...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Feb 2006)

Joe O'Toole: ..., that the whole world would be overrun. Many people expressed grave concerns, there was much media commentary on the issue and then it simply died away. Last year, we were introduced to bird flu. It broke out in Asia, moved through Asia Minor and across to Turkey. An infected bird was found in Greece and it was generally held that it would only be a matter of time before Europe was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Mar 2005)

Joe O'Toole: ...the most hopeful, optimistic and encouraging intervention in the Northern discussions. It is crucially important that this is recognised by the House. In 1917 millions of people died from an influenza pandemic which had devastating effects on every continent. A similar situation and circumstances which led to that outbreak are coming into place at this time. There is a very strong...