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The excellent health service in the Holy Land wasn’t a miracle
Published in the Sunday Independent on 6th July, 2008 Why is it Israel has one of the world’s best medical care systems with the problems it faces. Whether the recession is wholly due to external...
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Health bureaucrats are architects of a new brand of ‘apartheid’
Published in the Sunday Independent on 17th August, 2008 Under recent plans, private patients are whites and public patients ‘Kaffirs’. The most chilling, the most horrifying movie that I ever saw was...
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Discard party politics for sake of our health
Published in the Sunday Independent on 4th January, 2009 Fine Gael did the country a service last week when they promised to implement a version of the Dutch health care system, one of the world’s...
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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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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 Identifiers Bill
[Speaking in the Seanad during Second Stage of the Health Identifiers Bill 2013] I am broadly in support of the idea of enhanced patient identification as a means of improving safety. There is no doubt...
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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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Free GP care for Under 6s
[Speaking in the Seanad at the end of Final Stage of the Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill] I welcome the Bill, notwithstanding the genuine concerns which prompted me to bring forward the...
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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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