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It took almost 40 minutes for the ambulance to reach the 25 year old.
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It took almost 40 minutes for the ambulance to reach the 25 year old.
The IMO says that health cuts cannot continue.
The Pfizer survey also found that 31% of adults have neither private insurance nor a medical card.
The health minister also cast doubts on the savings targets.
Tens of thousands are expected to turn out for ‘seven to ten’ large-scale protests around the country, organised to fight cuts to front-line services.
Hospital action groups from around the country are coming together to plan an ongoing national campaign.
The biggest leap was between 2011 and 2012, when over 150,000 extra cards were released.
A spokesperson for Health Minister James Reilly has confirmed that the language of the HSE Service Plan was changed after Cabinet approved extra funding for the Department of Health.
It was revealed this weekend that the head of the HSE warned James Reilly that Budget cuts were being made “against the advice of the HSE and the Department of Health”.
A family faced having to pay for their daughter’s oxygen tanks and feeding tubes after the HSE granted them a GP visit card instead of a full medical card.
Health Minister James Reilly has been under increasing pressure since confirmation last Tuesday that a further €666 million is to be taken out of the Health Budget in 2014.
Fianna Fáil’s decision to table a motion of no confidence in Health Minister James Reilly tonight drew criticism from the government benches during a heated debate.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny faced questions from the opposition in the Dáil this afternoon as TDs returned to action with plenty of fiery rhetoric.
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The six-person team will cost about €22,000 each for the six-week period.
The Government said last night that cuts to Personal Assistant hours will not go ahead as planned.
The Minister for Health has instructed the HSE to ‘continue to provide services to people in receipt of personal assistant services’ but protesters outside government buildings could continue through the night.
The Minister has come in for considerable criticism and scrutiny in recent days but why is he under pressure and what’s likely to happen in the coming weeks and months?
The newly-assembled group, Leaders Alliance, has said it will stay overnight outside Government buildings.
The Taoiseach and Tánaiste said it is time now for the Government to get down to “real work”.
The Fianna Fáil/Sinn Féin-tabled motion of confidence is “politics at its most unattractive”, according to Waterford TD Ciara Conway.
The Hall Family have made a direct appeal to the Minister for Health to reverse cuts. Meanwhile, a protest is due to take place outside Government buildings today over disability cuts.
But the Transport Minister did say that consultants are overpaid.
Health service says cuts have to be made before the end of this year if it is to meet budget targets set down by the government and Troika.
Warnings that an exodus of midwives from the HSE will lead to deaths have been branded ‘outrageous’ by Enda Kenny.
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Tense scenes in the Dáil ahead of this evening’s vote on cutting Roscommon’s emergency department.
Demonstrators say the facility is seriously under resourced. Meanwhile a protest about Roscommon County Hospital is planned for Leinster House for Wednesday.
It comes as there were warnings about accident and emergency services in Dublin and Laois earlier this week.
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The emergency department at the Dublin hospital will close at some stage this year. Last year it treated 21,000 patients.
Harney says €200m will be saved a year through the cuts, but unions are concerned the HSE does not have a plan to cope with cutting 5,000 jobs by Christmas.
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