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Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Minister do anything to reform the HSE to ensure there are clear lines of command and that people know who is responsible? That is the basic problem in the HSE. Will she slim down the senior management structures? Does the Minister have a system of dealing with letters that come from professionals who indicate concerns? She mentioned that it was a nurse who indicated the problems...

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is a system in place to ensure appropriate follow-up occurs in serious cases?

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: In other words, cases are not passed on to others and the Department ensures action is taken.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: The systems in place in Ireland and British Columbia are very different.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Minister take these steps in a specified timeframe?

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister did not answer the question on whether performance related bonuses——

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Minister give a simple yes or no answer to my question on bonuses?

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is supposed to be based on performance.

Cancer Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: No, but targets should be set and achieved.

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: What has this to do with primary schools?

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to share my time with Deputies Ciarán Lynch, Kathleen Lynch and Seán Sherlock. I commend my colleagues in the Labour Party on tabling this motion. As Deputies are aware, I have dealt with the area of education over a number of years and have had contacts with a variety of schools. This is an issue that has been brought up consistently by schools across the country. One of the...

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has plans for extra provision of storage facilities similar to Turlough Hill; his views on whether additional storage would permit far higher levels of generation from renewable sources; if he will commission a study that considers increased storage as a mechanism for facilitating greater generation from...

Written Answers — Fuel Poverty: Fuel Poverty (12 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeframe for publication of the findings of the Fuel Poverty Action Research Project; the most recent figure for the number living in fuel poverty; the number of people who benefited from the warmer homes scheme; the budget available for that scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10569/08]

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I want to ask about the adoption Bill to bring into force the convention on inter-country adoption. It is on the pink list which means it should be published this term. That Bill has been in the pipeline for the past ten years. Will it be published before the start of the next term?

Sports and Public Health. (13 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the role his Department plays in facilitating the level of co-operation between public health policy and promotion and sport policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10847/08]

Written Answers — Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry (13 Mar 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the way his Department has helped support and develop sustainable tourism here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10820/08]

Order of Business (2 Apr 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Taoiseach indicated earlier in response to my party leader that the Government accepts all 15 recommendations made in the Health Information and Quality Authority's report on the misdiagnosis of Ms Rebecca O'Malley's cancer. While a number of those recommendations relate to governance issues, some of them will require serious additional resources.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I think I can, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will a Supplementary Estimate be introduced so that these recommendations can be implemented? The two hospitals concerned are two of the so-called centres of excellence for cancer care. They do not have the capacity to implement the recommendations and the proposals for cancer care. Considering the amount of money that has been allocated to the HSE this year, the only way the...

Order of Business (2 Apr 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: It will be required. If a Supplementary Estimate is not introduced, there is no point in saying the recommendations will be accepted.