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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 15 Jun 2004

Vol. 587 No. 2

Adjournment Debate Matters.

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Ring — to ask the Minister to explain the up-to-date position with regard to the orthopaedic unit in Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar, County Mayo; what discussions have taken place on this matter; who was involved in the discussions; what is the outcome of the discussions; what will happen to the staff who were interviewed for employment within the unit which was due to open on 1 July 2004; when contracts of employment will be given to them; when the unit will open; and what will happen to the patients who were scheduled to be treated in it; (2) Deputy Cowley — to ask the Minister if he will explain how the Western Health Board allegedly announced that the Mayo orthopaedic unit would open on 1 September 2004 a few hours before a demonstration organised by him took place when the Minister stated that any possible opening date was deferred subject to a meeting between his officials and the Western Health Board this week; if he will confirm whether 1 September is now the official opening date of the unit; if he will agree that if the unit can be opened on 1 September, it can be opened on 1 July as originally planned; and if he will agree that all staff already recruited will have left for other jobs by the time 1 September arrives, thus ensuring the unit cannot open on 1 September 2004; (3) Deputy Olivia Mitchell — the proposed Luas parking charges which will have a serious impact on the viability of the service and cause local illegal and highly disruptive parking in residential areas; (4) Deputy O'Dowd — to ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans to develop a comprehensive delivery of increased regional acute hospital services at the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; (5) Deputy Perry — the request for urgently needed funding for the west Sligo rural transport initiative project in County Sligo; (6) Deputy Burton — the imminent closure of the Carmichael Centre, North Brunswick Street, which needs financial support; (7) Deputy Crowe — to ask the Minister to intervene in the continuing crisis at Tallaght hospital's accident and emergency department where up to 45 people have been left on trolleys and chairs since the Dáil last met; and (8) Deputy Ó Snodaigh — the need for the Minister to take urgent action to redress the chronic underfunding of mental health services at St. James's Hospital.

The matters raised by Deputies O'Dowd, Burton, Crowe and Perry have been selected for discussion.

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