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Generic drugs, pharmaceuticals, reform of the health service.

[Speaking on the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013] … I speak from the perspective of having worked in the health service. The issue of drugs is deadly simple. The Government...

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Hospital services and the need for reform

Speaking during Seanad debate on Hospital Services I will take a moment to compliment the Minister on the good work he is doing on the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill. It has not been an easy...

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Health (Amendment) Bill 2013

I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. When many of the minor health care reforms such as this, which are coming through the system in preparation hopefully for the big bang of the move to...

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We must dream to escape nightmare; Statistics show that our beleaguered...

As published in The Sunday Independent on 27th October 2013 FRIENDS I have a dream today. I have a dream of an Irish health service where every woman, every man and every child could see the same...

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Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill

[Speaking in the Seanad during Second Stage of the Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013] This is obviously an important way-station in the process of health care reform and, as such,...

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Varadkar must harness his aloofness, arrogance and self-regard to succeed

[As published in the Sunday Independent on Sunday July 13, 2014] ‘Varadkar is sufficiently unmindful of his master’s bidding to ignore attempts to transform the department into an office of the...

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National Programme for Eye Care and the National Vision Coalition

[Speaking in the Seanad during Fine Gael's Private Members' Time Motion on eye-care/blindness] Link to full text of this Fine Gael Motion:...

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Health service reform progress? Introduction of universal health insurance?

[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] It is good to be back. Clearly, the most important, and from the point of view of the average citizen of the country the most far-reaching, development...

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Lack of obstetricians and the question of universal health insurance.

[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] I will make a happy announcement to the House. In San Francisco two days ago, Dr. Pierre Thirion, acting on behalf of the Ireland Co-operative Clinical...

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Longer waiting lists due to health system failure

[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] The longer one is in a place such as this, the more grounds one has for cynicism and despondency. As somebody who has consistently for 20 years...

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Inhumane Waiting Lists and Cancer Care Levels

[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] I ask the Leader to bring to the attention of the Minister for Health, and to consider having a debate on, the promised reform of our health system. It...

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Minister Varadkar has the power and ability to reform our health system

[Speaking in the Seanad during Statements on HSE National Service Plan 2015] Link to video footage of this contribution:...

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Health Reform

[Speaking in the Seanad during a Fianna Fail Private Members Motion on Health Services] Again, I welcome the Minister. He is a young man and is about the same age as I was when I first became a...

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Overcrowding of Hospital Beds is a Symptom of bigger problem

[Speaking in the Seanad during Order of Business] I have noticed substantial speculation in recent days which is a result of the welcome attention that has been placed on a very unwelcome problem,...

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Back to the Future day

I bring to the attention of Members that yesterday was Back to the Future day. It was the day depicted in the famous 1985 movie starring Michael J. Fox, following the intervention of Christopher Lloyd...

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