Results 2,521-2,540 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Chair called the Minister on Question No. 2.

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I do not blame the Chair.

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has planned for the effect of the transfer of private patients from public hospitals where co-location is to proceed; the cost implications for the running of those hospitals; the staffing implications particularly where specialist clinical staff will be required in both hospitals; the way it is proposed that public...

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am confused. Is the Minister suggesting there will be two identical hospitals with, for example, two clinical teams from cardiology to orthopaedics on both sides? For example, in order to cover for someone needing appendectomy in the middle of the night, will two full teams be needed, one in each of the two hospitals? If someone breaks a hip, will full teams be needed in both hospitals...

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Consultants will now be able to sign up to three different kinds of contracts. In addition, some consultants can opt to work entirely for private hospitals. How will it work? For example, how will it work in practice if a cardiologist signs up for one particular contract without the proper mix of public and private? Will we need another cardiologist in the private or the public hospital?

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: There is grave concern among clinicians as to how this will work.

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I hear a very different story.

Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I congratulate the Minister of State on his new position. I support Deputy Ó Caoláin's comments regarding the need to establish this group. I am also concerned about the Taoiseach's claim that one year of supervision was somehow holding up the provision of services to people who need speech and language therapy when that is in fact the international norm for ensuring new therapists are...

Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Now the Government is going to export them.

Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Minister of State indicate the position in respect of the disability budget for 2008?

Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Has the disability budget for 2008 been allocated?

Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is a matter of serious concern to people who cannot return to the community and who are occupying hospital beds.

Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will be very brief. What exactly is the role of KPMG and why was it brought in? Does the Minister consider its service good value for money?

Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are many administrators in there already.

Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: On those phone calls which have been made to elderly people, I understand they are mainly for clarification purposes. Have there been any complaints regarding people feeling intimidated about phone calls received?

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Are there plans for a national diabetes screening programme?

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the roll-out of primary care teams have been delayed by the Health Service Executive embargo on recruitment and the continuing control on recruitment of staff; the progress she expects to be made in 2008 on the roll-out of these teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22148/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been informed of the design and construction problems which the Health Service Executive says are delaying the delivery of step-down-beds which would enable some of the nearly 700 people who are in acute beds and ready for discharge to such beds to be transferred; her views on these problems; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role of a company (details supplied) in the health repayment scheme; if that company is authorised to initiate phone calls to claimants or to seek withdrawal of appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22393/08]

Written Answers — Medical Training: Medical Training (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the fact that medical cytology students at Dublin Institute of Technology are being trained at public expense for a service that will be contracted to a US-based company by the National Cancer Screening Service; the action he will take to protect the investment of his Department and to ensure that the students concerned...