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Thursday May 22, 2008 11:41

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Death By Geography

After a heated debate in the Dail the Government won the vote on the retention of Cancer services in the North-West. The result will see all cancer services bar some recovery units move from Sligo General Hospital and Mayo to the Governments proposed Center of Excellence in Galway.

The FG-Labour private members' motion was debated in the Dail both yesterday and last night causing scenes of disbelief as Brian Cowen openly threatened the opposition benches with censure from his own side of the house after being what he described as 'persistently heckled'

After resumption of the debate last night FG, Labour and SF TDs called for Fianna Fail TDs Jimmy Devins, Beverly Cooper Flynn and Eamonn Scanlon to join with them in preventing the closures in Sligo and Mayo. FG TD John Perry made an impassioned plea to the deputies citing figures that actually proved Sligo's cancer unit fulfilled all the medical criteria set out by the over-all review and therefore should remain open and fully funded. It appeared to have made a nonsense of the Governments case for closing the unit on the grounds of critical mass and international best practice.

The Fianna Fail deputies however gave lengthy orations to the house explaining their apparent u-turn on the issue and why they would be supporting Mary Harneys reforms. It was a potentially damaging climb-down from their earlier stated position which drew cries of derision from the packed Galleries.

Cooper Flynn in particular who had ran as an independent canvassed heavily for the retention of services and told voters she would do all in her power to prevent the closure of the Cancer Unit in Mayo. She dutifully reneged on that promise last to tow the party line. As did Eamonn Scanlon and Jimmy Devins.

The vote for the Government was carried 75-62. It means that there will be no cancer units north of geographic line drawn from Dublin to Galway

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Comments (53 of 53)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Links	Sligoboy	Thu May 22, 2008 11:48
2	Political U-turns are the norm	Fred Johnston	Thu May 22, 2008 12:07
3	Who didnt vote?	Eoghan Roe	Thu May 22, 2008 13:23
4	Everyone in Governemnt sold out.	Cain	Thu May 22, 2008 13:40
5	Voting record	Eoghan Roe	Thu May 22, 2008 16:38
6	This is democracy?	Turncoat Taoiseagi and his minions	Thu May 22, 2008 16:50
7	Disgraceful	Aidan M	Thu May 22, 2008 17:09
8	Votes	Ciarán ÓB	Thu May 22, 2008 17:44
9	Disgraceful	Liam	Thu May 22, 2008 22:43
10	retribution	ned green	Thu May 22, 2008 23:44
11	They Will know the next ELECTION	Eamonn O'Coilea'in	Fri May 23, 2008 01:39
12	eamonn	Michael Donlon	Fri May 23, 2008 13:20
13	Abstentions	Rhona	Fri May 23, 2008 16:17
14	let down badly	ned green	Fri May 23, 2008 20:08
15	Aidan M	reply to Ned	Sat May 24, 2008 11:00
16	flaccid opposition	plodding voter	Sat May 24, 2008 11:29
17	Independents	Cain	Sat May 24, 2008 11:51
18	cain	aidan m	Sat May 24, 2008 11:59
19	localism	disgruntled	Sat May 24, 2008 14:25
20	Sligo Cancer campaign did not support FG motion	Sydney G.	Sat May 24, 2008 16:28
21	Greens	Claire L.	Mon May 26, 2008 13:50
22	Not Scanlon	Cain	Mon May 26, 2008 18:17
23	wood from the trees	ned green	Mon May 26, 2008 20:43
24	universal healthcare	rainbow warrior	Tue May 27, 2008 19:37
25	rainbow warrior	Fairy Hallihan	Tue May 27, 2008 19:52
26	scaremongering	ned green	Fri May 30, 2008 09:27
27	G Farry	neil sligo	Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:00
28	the long grass	ned green	Thu Jun 12, 2008 16:39
29	let them eat cake.	ned green	Fri Jun 13, 2008 14:39
30	I that's all Fianna Fail can come up with	Sean	Wed Jun 25, 2008 00:27
31	Local elections	Ged	Fri Jun 27, 2008 09:29
32	Once again we have been badly let down	sean	Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:05
33	I for one	Paula	Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:19
34	I was very surprised today	Carl	Fri Jul 04, 2008 22:27
35	Ocean this morning	Johnny g	Mon Jul 07, 2008 16:57
36	cancer services in northwest	james	Tue Jul 08, 2008 13:50
37	Fianna Fail have let us down again .	Paula	Fri Jul 11, 2008 20:20
38	Canser sevices	Fed up constituent	Fri Jul 11, 2008 20:44
39	I have to agree	Johnny g	Fri Jul 11, 2008 20:53
40	true leadership.	rhona	Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:34
41	I don't agree Rhona	Brian .	Mon Jul 21, 2008 15:25
42	There is a numer of Cllr's that attend all these meetings	Bernard	Mon Jul 21, 2008 15:33
43	here we again	labour member	Mon Jul 21, 2008 16:27
44	Did he write this himself	David	Mon Jul 21, 2008 16:33
45	Abuse of expences	Brian	Mon Jul 21, 2008 16:37
46	In reply to labour member	Bernard	Mon Jul 21, 2008 16:43
47	Labour member	Brian	Mon Jul 21, 2008 16:48
48	Well paid	Kevin	Mon Jul 21, 2008 17:00
49	Give credit where its due	labour member	Mon Jul 21, 2008 18:19
50	Labout member	Brian	Mon Jul 21, 2008 19:02
51	Who is Cllr Barry O Neill	Tubber Boy	Sun Aug 17, 2008 14:35
52	Not in Sligo	Gerry	Tue Aug 19, 2008 21:35
53	The champion	Brian	Tue Aug 19, 2008 23:24

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