David Cullinane (Sinn Fein)

I have a question. Last week we had a five hour debate on the Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill but we saw no sign of the Minister for Health. I intend to move an amendment to the Order of Business. Three hours are to be allocated today to take Committee and remaining Stages of the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill, to which there is not even an amendment tabled. This is madness. We will discuss mobile phones for two hours and yet we cannot get the Minister for Health to come in here to talk about the very real issues of health care facing the people. I am not referring only to the broken promises in respect of Roscommon County Hospital. I could mention a number of broken promises that were made in respect of my constituency of Waterford. A community nursing unit was promised-----