Results 2,961-2,980 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will allocate funding to an organisation (details supplied) in order that they can access a language line so that victims of domestic violence who do not speak English can have access to their helpline and support services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45789/08]
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her response to the submission made to her by an organisation (details supplied) prior to budget 2009; if she will address the financial problems amputees have as a result of unavoidable expenses such as the cost of â¬10,000 for a prosthetic leg. [45797/08]
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her response to a submission from an organisation (details supplied) to address the financial problems faced by amputees as a result of the cost of prosthetic limbs and other costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45796/08]
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money recouped from private child care providers in County Meath who received a grant to develop and operate a child care facility and who subsequently ceased to operate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45795/08]
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the individual grants given to private child care providers in County Meath from 2003 to date in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45826/08]
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the private child care facilities which received a grant in the period 2003 to 2008 in County Meath and which no longer operate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45827/08]
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the procedure for recoupment of public moneys in County Meath when a private child care provider who has received a public grant ceases to operate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45828/08]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a health centre (details supplied) in County Clare will be opened; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that it is ready to be occupied and that the running costs are unlikely to be much more than costs associated with running services in other inappropriate settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45821/08]
- Written Answers — Clinical Indemnity Scheme: Clinical Indemnity Scheme (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made in discussions aimed at including independent midwives in the State's insurance package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45823/08]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of occupational therapists who have been recruited in 2008 to fill the estimated 183 unfilled posts at the end of 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45825/08]
- Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 276: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made in implementing the SÃalta programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45822/08]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (11 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if discussions have taken place between his Department and representatives of Protestant post-primary schools to address the budget 2009 decision to alter the agreement made at the time of the introduction of free second-level education (details supplied); the provision that will be made to ensure that Protestant parents of limited...
- Hospital Services. (16 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the number of people who spend long hours on trolleys in hospital accident and emergency departments; the action she will take to relieve the situation this winter; if she will introduce some measure to provide alternative care for the 700 plus people who are ready for discharge but who have nowhere to go; and if she will...
- Hospital Services. (16 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister has laid the HSE's plan before the House and it is on the Order Paper today. I find it extraordinary that it is not properly and publicly announced by the HSE or the Minister and that it is sneaked in on the list without any information to the public. It seems to me that is much of the problem with the health service currently. In the plan the Minister intends to cut more than...
- Hospital Services. (16 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: With due respect to the Minister, we cannot live on hope. It is a fact that people present themselves at accident and emergency units. What exactly will change? When people present at accident and emergency units they require treatment or to be dealt with in some fashion. If accident and emergency service hours are being cut back in some hospitals, how will they cope with the numbers of...
- Hospital Services. (16 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: That is not the reality we are hearing about.
- Private Health Insurance. (16 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: If it is intended that this measure be budget neutral then it would make sense to ring-fence it. I do not understand why this could not be done. Have the insurers, VHI and Quinn Healthcare, told the Minister why they increased their premia to such an extent? Is the Minister concerned that more people will now use the public service because of the increases? The measure combines with job...
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: I am seeking clarification from the Ceann Comhairle. The House may have been misinformed earlier today by the Minister for Health and Children, who stated that she laid the HSE's national service plan before the Dáil on Wednesday last, 10 December. However, the plan is listed on today's Order Paper and has only just become available from the Oireachtas Library. It was not available...
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: That does not come anywhere near matching medical inflation.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2008)
Jan O'Sullivan: That is not what we are saying at all.