Organisation: Dáil Health Committee

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Ambulance delay crisis ‘off the Richter scale’, claims SF TD

A TD and his mother narrowly avoided becoming victims of Ireland’s ambulance crisis after phone calls for help were met with major delays — a year after his wife’s brother died in circumstances where there had been a delay in the arrival of an ambulance.

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Extreme group’s leaflets feature holocaust image

Leaflets criticising the TD who chairs the Dáil committee hearing opinion on legislating for the X case, and likening abortion to the Holocaust, are being sent to homes in Cork.

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Martin wades into abortion debate

As the Dáil committee hearings continue on the abortion bill, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has waded into the debate saying it is important that Christian believers “be, and seen to be, on the side of life, especially when life is most vulnerable”.

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Opposition attacks Harney in heated debate

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Journalists should have asked about ultrasounds specifically, says HSE

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Staff recruitment ban denies babies TB vaccination

Hospital campaigners scare-mongering, says Drumm

THOSE campaigning against plans to overhaul the way acute services are delivered in the north-east are “scare-mongering and acting in their own self-interest,” Health Service Executive chief Prof Brendan Drumm insisted yesterday.

Fri, 29 Sep, 2006

Consultants hopeful on contract talks

CONSULTANTS are optimistic that stalled negotiations with the Health Service Executive on a new contract could be back on track within weeks.

Mon, 10 Apr, 2006

Call for abusive patients to get €1,000 fines

People who abuse or threaten nurses or doctors in hospitals across the country should face fines of up to €1,000, a Government TD claimed today.

Wed, 05 Apr, 2006

McDowell 'bows to publicans' on café bars

THE Government was last night accused of giving into publicans in the new "compromise" deal on café bars to be unveiled by Justice Minister Michael McDowell in the Dáil on Tuesday night.

Mon, 13 Jun, 2005

A&E plan won’t bear fruit in 2005

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney admitted yesterday that a key part of her 10-point plan to solve the Accident and Emergency crisis - the provision of three acute medical units in major hospitals - will not be delivered this year.

Sat, 16 Apr, 2005

Psychiatric patients denied review of status

Catherine Shanahan

Fri, 04 Feb, 2005

There’s fat chance of getting sense from this out-of-touch government

IT will come as no surprise to hear that the Government is going to axe the 100 people receive from the President on reaching the remarkable milestone of 100 years of age.

Fri, 29 Aug, 2003

Government fast-food fat-tax is extreme, says Supermacs boss

THE head of one of the countries largest fast-food chains has described proposals to introduce a ‘fat tax’ as ‘another example of the Government taking the American situation to an extreme’.

Tue, 26 Aug, 2003

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