Give Harney The Boot

dublin | miscellaneous | event notice Saturday November 24, 2007 18:19 by LY - Anti-harney foundation

Demo to let Harney know she has to go

The Labour Party has tabled a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health, Mary Harney TD, which will be taken in Labour Party Private Members time on Wednesday next.

There will be a demo outside the Dail to let her know she has to go and force Green and independent TDs to vote for the motion of no confidence.

Go to the dail @ 6pm this Wednesday and let Harney know her time as minister is up!!!!

NOTICE OF MOTION

That Dail Eireann

Expressing its serious concerns about disclosures of major failures in cancer care services at the Midlands General Hospital, Portlaoise, including the failure to diagnose breast cancer in nine women who had presented for mammograms and the recall of a further 97 women who had undergone ultrasound scans at the hospital;

Deploring the way in which the women have been treated subsequent to these disclosures, including the failure to provide adequate counselling for those who have had to undergo surgery and the fact that women who had undergone scans first heard on news bulletins that they might be recalled;

Noting that concern had previously been expressed about the adequacy of equipment and facilities at Portlaoise;

Condemning the failure of the Department of Health and the HSE to ensure the provision of cancer screening and treatment services in which the public can have full confidence;

Urging the public, nothwithstanding these alarming failures to continue to present for screening and assessment;

Noting that the HSE was the creation of Minister Harney and that it has failed to deliver the improvements promised in the health service;

Believing in the principle of political accountability for such shocking failures in our health system;

Has no confidence in the Minister for Health, Mary Harney TD.