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Dail passes 'close St Luke's Bill'
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Wednesday July 07, 2010 07:56 by Enid - Save St Luke's Cancer Hospital st.lukes.rathgar at gmail dot com 087 2319056
Green votes doom St Luke's Despite a 150,000 petition collected by patients and their families and extensive lobbying including a facebook campaign, government TDs would not accept amendments from Labour and FG which would have protected St Luke's and retained it as a public cancer hospital. Dail passes ‘close St Luke’s bill’ |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Sad to read this. Harney was determined to close St Luke's
Hard to understand why the Greens would not support an amendment to the Bill - this would not have brought down the govt and therefore no threat to those ministerial pensions clocking up.
Perhaps they actually think it right that patients have no say in their treatment, that doctors always know best.
What, if anything, can be done now to save St Luke's?
Details of the bill and the various stages can be found on the Oireachtas website at the related link below.
The cover/title of the bill is:
Bill Number 25 of 2010
Sponsored by the Minister for Health and Children
Source: Government
Method: Presented
Status: New Bill
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the dissolution of the Saint Luke’s Hospital Board; to amend the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990, the Health Act 2007, the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 10 and the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009; to repeal section 44 of the Health Act 1947 and section 36(2) of the Health Act 1953; and to provide for related matters
The final version of the bill can be found at: http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2010/2...d.pdf
Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 As Passed by Dáil Éireann
I wonder whether we wil see the hospital closed, sold off to some consultants' consortium and then re-opened as a private centre.
This wouldn't surprise me at all, as this is the whole logic of what Harney has always been about.
It's a pity that the greens are supporting Harney here, but they have totally sold out, and will shortly follow the pds into oblivion.
It just can't happen fast enough for me, I mean for christs sake, they even vote against holding bye-elections - if that isn't voting against democracy, I don't know what it is.
A consultant (one of the good guys who cares about public patients) suggested to me this weekend that one possible (ghastly) scenario would be the selling off of the land and buildings to UPMC (University of Pitsburgh Medical Centre) which owns the Beacon Hopsital and is a shareholder In the Whitfield private clinic, waterford which has HSE cancer contracts. UPMC is expanding into Europe and ireland in particular and there's money to be made in cancer.
As Minister, Harney now has the right to do whatever she likes with St Lukes.
She's announced 600 mill cuts in the health budget (Dec Budget). So why not spin the selling off to this outfit UPMC (which may have 'not for profit' status whatever that means) for their Irish corporate HQ with some nominal cancer services retained to help the spin that this is a good news story. UPMC helicopters would be well able to land on the 18 acres site.
the determination of Harney to push the Bil thro and to get the HSE running Luke's tells me there is another agenda - one so important that the Greens had to be kept on board even given Luke's is in Gormley's constituency. What were the Green's offered to support Harney here. Any suggestions?