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- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Colm Burke: I thank all the speakers today for contributing their views on this matter. I reiterate what the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, said in respect of the value we place on all the staff working in our health service. These are the people working tirelessly daily to provide care to those most in need right across the country. The Members here went through each of the hospitals in their own local...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the nurses, doctors and carers. Their performance in County Kerry has been outstanding and is outstanding. I sympathise with all the members of the INMO who are protesting today outside Tralee University Hospital. They should not have to be there. I say to the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, that his operation as Minister is the worst part of the Government. He is the worst cog in the...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this very important motion. If you can get a vet into your yard within an hour or an hour and a half, but if your grandmother goes to an emergency department she might have to wait for 24 hours to see a doctor, that is a bad sign for the health service. We are spending billions of euro on that service, but you can get a vet quicker than you...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: We find ourselves in an unbelievable situation. Four or five years ago there was a vote of no confidence in the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, and it led to a general election. That vote was called on the basis of the health service and health scandals. Nothing has got any better since then. People are waiting three to five years for cataract treatment, while others are waiting...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: I call Deputy Pringle of the Independent Group.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: A Chathaoirligh Gníomhach, on a point of order, where has the Minister gone? What is more important than being here-----
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: Deputy, you have had your time.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Where has the Minister gone?
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: He is over there.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: He is not the Minister.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: He is a Minister. Do not be so disrespectful. Deputy Healy-Rae should sit down now. I call Deputy Pringle.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is not here.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: What about Bere Island and Cape Clear?
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am never disrespectful to anyone.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: He is a Minister.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I have no respect for the man who is not here.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: You had your time, Deputy.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion regarding public health service staffing. I fully support this motion, particularly its call on the Government to lift the recruitment moratorium, commit to restoring staff positions abolished in 2023 and 2024 and fund the additional recruitment needed for appropriate staffing and the expansion of services. I thank the Labour Party for...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: I call People Before Profit-Solidarity Deputies Boyd Barrett, Murphy and Barry.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is me and Deputy Boyd Barrett.