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THE DÁIL’S COMMITTEE on health and children will meet tomorrow to seek clarification on the cystic fibrosis unit in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.
It will discuss current practices in relation to the unit when it meets with Nicholas Jermyn, CEO, St Vincent’s University Hospital Group; Professor Charles Gallagher, Director, National Referral Centre for Adult Cystic Fibrosis; and Dr Barry White, National Director, Clinical Strategy and Programmes, Health Service Executive.
Committee Chairman, Jerry Buttimer TD said that recent reports that five patients with cystic fibrosis were awaiting admission to the specialist unit at St Vincent’s Hospital “are serious and worrying”.
Ireland has one of the world’s highest incidences of cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder which affects the lungs and the digestive system, and it is important that patients are provided with the best care in specialist units. At our meeting tomorrow, we will be seeking clarification on the situation at St Vincent’s Hospital from senior healthcare executives dealing with cystic fibrosis.
He added that members “will be keen to establish if the facility meets the necessary requirements” for people with cystic fibrosis.
The meeting will take place tomorrow at 9.30am in Committee Room 2, Leinster House, and can be watched live at: http://bit.ly/24YmPI
At the end of November, it emerged that there were five CF patients waiting for an in-patient room at St Vincent’s, which the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland said was “completely unacceptable and is jeopardising the health” of the patients.
The newly reconstructed wing of the hospital was opened in August, following an agreement in July of this year between hospital management, the HSE, Department of Health and the CFAI that up to 34 beds would be provided.
The association said that the situation is likely to worsen as winter progresses and needs to be sorted.
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3bn texts in a 3 month period in Ireland, 12 bn in a year..
a 2 cent text tax would have raised ?240 million, All of the ?26m needed to protect the carers respite grant & child benefit. If my sums are right.
(0.02 x 12,000,000,000
= 240,000,000
This would be a creative and some what optional tax that does not effect peoples ability to survive.
Correct but since the boys in the Dail have free phones paid by, as with everything else, the taxpayer, then we would be worse off and they would once again be untouched.
Why should mobile users pay for the carer’s allowance. A couple of percent tax increase for high earners would easily make up the millions the government took from them.
isn’t there already VAT on text messaging? so double taxation is your answer?
@Gamma, I’m just trying to think of less painful ways to help our country…
Do you have any better idea’s? We’d love to hear them.
Your response is what is wrong with us, all moan no solution.
You can call it what you want but it doesn’t take food out of peoples mouths.. and that’s the point.
tooooo much calculations, tooooo much percentages, all we care for is to bring down all this mobile nd landline broadband services nd make it moooore effective in using, it’s tooo expensive here in Ireland compare to other EU country
Does that include iMessages which are free?
Presumably this includes FREE SMS with Vodafone to Any Network for Life (I’m assuming 3, O2, Meteor, 48, Eircon etc. all do similar deals for RTG Customers?)?
Top of my head I sent 1152 in October. Think highest was 2,170 in November 2011. Averages out at Circa 1,300 ish during/across the year.
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