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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...medical outcomes. We need proactive measures aimed at treating patients as efficiently as possible and we can do this by taking some simple actions. As an example, I refer to the CT scanner at Portiuncula University Hospital in Ballinasloe, which has been out of action for 144 hours this month alone. Despite this being the tenth time that it has broken down in the past 18 operational...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Denis Naughten: ...the past ten years we have seen significant spending on our health service, yet last year the then Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, handed back €300 million to the Department of Finance because she could not spend the money. That money could have been used to provide additional home-help hours, operations, medical cards or orthodontic treatment. The €300...

Good Samaritan Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (7 Dec 2005)

Denis Naughten: The purpose of the Good Samaritan Bill is to protect from liability those who go to the assistance of others who may be ill or injured as a result of an accident or other emergency. The reality is that we have a litigation culture and people are afraid to get involved in day-to-day situations. This is a simple practical Bill which affords protection to all citizens who wish to render...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Denis Naughten: ...has been cut and more funding needs to put into this. For example, Bus Éireann announced it was a case of "use it or lose it" for route 21, the Westport-Athlone service. That same week, the Department of Social Protection, which has its own budget, announced it was closing its community welfare clinic in Ballinlough, County Roscommon, and people have to access that service in...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...morning, I happened to be on Galway Bay FM discussing another health issue. The HSE is actively promoting the minor injury unit at Roscommon County Hospital, encouraging people to go to it to avoid going to emergency departments. Over the past number of years, people from as far away as Eyrecourt would be better travelling to Roscommon hospital where they would be treated quicker for...

Adjournment Debate Matters (28 May 2008)

Joe Costello: ...and outpatient services to meet HSE budgetary restrictions; (4) Deputy Deirdre Clune — the need to ensure enough qualified staff to administer the TB vaccine in the Cork area; (5) Deputy Denis Naughten — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline her plans for the provision of acute medical and surgical care of the people of counties Roscommon, Galway, Westmeath,...

Adjournment Debate Matters (22 Apr 2008)

John O'Donoghue: ...as possible; (4) Deputy Jimmy Deenihan — the delay in appointing design team consultants for the proposed new school at Blennerville, Tralee, County Kerry (details supplied); (5) Deputy Denis Naughten — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline her plans for the provision of acute medical and surgical care facilities for the people of Roscommon, Galway, Westmeath,...

Adjournment Debate Matters (23 Apr 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...the school as soon as possible; (4) Deputy Jimmy Deenihan — the delay in appointing design team consultants for the proposed new school at Blennerville, Tralee, County Kerry; (5) Deputy Denis Naughten — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline her plans for the provision of acute medical and surgical care for the people of Roscommon, Galway, Westmeath, Longford,...

Hospital Services: Motion (5 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move: That Dáil Éireann calls on the Government to stand by its commitments and ensure: — the continuation of all existing accident and emergency services at hospitals across the State as promised by candidates of the Fine Gael and Labour parties in advance of the general election, including Roscommon, Navan, Letterkenny, Portlaoise, St. Columcille's (Loughlinstown), Portiuncula...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Denis Naughten: ...for money, however, is to provide for some element of accountability for chief executives and the executive health agencies that are to be established, yet that is not the case under the Bill. The Department of Health and Children has spent €7 million constructing a new accident and emergency unit at the county hospital in Roscommon, yet we cannot get staff to run it. To all intents and...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2013)

Denis Naughten: ...the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Health who was happy to put it in writing, yet that promise was ignored very soon after the election. Another commitment was given in respect of Portiuncula hospital, also in writing, and since it was given the accident and emergency department in the hospital has lost the capacity to treat stroke patients. Some pre-election promises...

Health (General Practitioner Services) Bill 2014: Motion to Instruct Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Denis Naughten: ...weeks, rather than paying €1,200 a day to keep him or her in an acute hospital bed, resulting in congestion in hospital wards, delays in and the postponement of elective surgery, congestion in accident and emergency departments and ambulances being parked outside accident and emergency departments rather than being available to respond to meet community needs. I hope the Minister...

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...road asking people where they were going. I ask the Aire Stáit to come back to me on this next matter as well. Last June, I wrote to the Minister for Health, the chief executive of the HSE and the Secretary General of the Department of Health pointing out the desperate situation in Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe, where 10% of the beds were lost because of Covid-19. The hospital...