Results 761-780 of 1,044,383 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Ossian Smyth OR speaker:Pauline Tully OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Johnny Mythen)
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Democracy may not suit the Deputies and the truth may not suit them-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: If the Minister comes to Cork, I will take him for a spin and he can meet the people.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but our healthcare workers have reduced the waiting times for children in Dublin and other areas from two to three years to six weeks.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Dublin is not Ireland.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: What about Deputy Michael Collins's own area? He is aware of the really important investment we are putting into Ballincollig. He is aware that we have taken cataract surgery out of Cork University Hospital and put it into South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital and Ballincollig. I fully accept that it is not fixed and that we are not there yet but what you will find-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: Why did the Government close down Tralee? I asked the Minister that question.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Democratic debate may not suit the Deputy; I fully appreciate that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Why did the Government close down Tralee?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: If the Minister comes on the bus to Belfast with me next Friday, he will see that it is full of people who are blind or almost blind.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Answer that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that parliamentary debate may not suit the Deputy.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Why did the Government close it down?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the record investment in healthcare in Kerry and Cork does not suit the Deputies' election campaigns-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: It does not suit us because it is not happening.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: -----but it is nonetheless true. No matter how much the Deputies shout at the Government and how many times they come in here with false information, it is a fact.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Tralee has been closed down.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy is making this into another "Hall's Pictorial Weekly".
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: He is dodging the answer.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: He is not here to answer that particular question. Will the Deputy resume his seat?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a very good programme by the way.