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- Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Throughout the country, there is overcrowding and overworking in our health service.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: I am sure I am in order to ask the Tánaiste whether a Supplementary Estimate relating to health services will be introduced while we wait for reform. People are dying all over the country.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: A Supplementary Estimate is needed. I will not sit down on this issue. A debate in the House is needed because people are dying. Between 350 and 500 stroke victims are suffering because of the lack of funding, resources and reform.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: People are dying while the Government sits back. Can we have an urgent debate on this issue?
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Can we have a promise of a debate? Can we see some indication that the Government takes these matters seriously?
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: I have been seeking an Adjournment debate about a young woman who has tried to commit suicide seven times but I have not succeeded with my request. There are so many health issues that we cannot secure an Adjournment debate.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: I have submitted it. We need a broad debate on the appalling problems in the health service.
- Psychiatric Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Jimmy Devins, for coming in to reply this matter. Almost every day we hear harrowing stories of how the health service is failing patients, but there are none more scandalous than the neglect of young people with mental health problems. I spoke on the telephone last week to the mother of a 16 year old girl who has attempted to take her own life nine...
- Psychiatric Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Is the Minister of State certain they will be developed?
- Psychiatric Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Are they open?
- Psychiatric Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: That is welcome news. I hope the other six beds will soon be provided.
- Psychiatric Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: I will continue to monitor the situation, as I am sure will the Minister of State.
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects the Government's promised legislation on same sex unions will be published; the reason the heads of the Bill have not been published, despite undertakings given in October 2007 that this would be done by the end of March 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14062/08]
- Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of murders since the beginning of 2008 in which firearms were used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14066/08]
- Written Answers — Palliative Care Services: Palliative Care Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the terms of reference of Professor Tom Keane include the provision of palliative care across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14403/08]
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is an eight year waiting list for the dermatology outpatients clinic in the Mid-West Regional Hospital with 2,300 people on the list and that the list is closed to new patients except those with very serious conditions; the action she will take to address this issue; and if she...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action being taken to reduce the ENT waiting lists in the south east; when full clinical facilities will be provided in order that the recently appointed locum consultant can perform their functions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14422/08]
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 271: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in providing extra kidney dialysis facilities for the mid-west region; if planning permission has been procured for the proposed new unit; the estimated timeframe for when it will be operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14584/08]
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a child care facility that has closed down can be held to account for lapses of care while it was operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14579/08]
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (17 Apr 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on strengthening regulations on child care to oblige a certificate of registration to be visibly displayed on the premises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14580/08]