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Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (5 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person in receipt of a course participant training allowance from FÁS who is also in receipt of a survivors' pension from the Department of Social and Family Affairs is also entitled to a training bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4061/09]

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: When will that unit be provided?

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: What about GPs?

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Does the Minister believe they only act in their own self interest as well?

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is a case of everybody being wrong, except the Minister.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: With the permission of the House, I wish to share time with Deputies Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Seán Sherlock. The problem with this matter is one of trust. The Minister put forward a fine, spirited argument in this House about why what she was doing was what she felt to be right, but the whole system is predicated on services being in place in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital and in the...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: While the Minister talks a very good talk, the reality of what happened in the north east is there for us to see. We must see that exactly the same is coming down the tracks for us in the mid-west if we take this on trust, particularly in the context of the financial situation. Last week a HSE west meeting was told that a further €10 million will be taken from the acute hospital budget in...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister has already told us there are IR problems and we have no guarantee they will be in place at the time.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister can bamboozle sectors of the commentariat and the 1% of the population who, unfortunately, vote for her party. She has done much talking about, for example, fixing the national crisis of accident and emergency overcrowding, but there are more people on trolleys now and in the last year than there were during the so-called crisis three years ago.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: She talked about providing extra hospital beds through co-location, but not a single extra bed has been provided in that way. She talked about rolling out the HPV vaccine for 12 year old girls next year but she has gone back on that. She talks a very good talk but, unfortunately, she does not deliver. The Minister and the HSE promised that specific actions to improve overcrowding in the...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: It did not get them when they were promised. Again, we are offered more consultants but it is always in the future. However, they are not in place, so how are we supposed to believe the Minister? The crowd that turned out in Nenagh knew the issues very well. They know we need a major specialist centre. I have no problem with the Minister's plan and agree that people with severe trauma due...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Exactly. The Minister published it only because we were about to do so.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister did not. That is the point.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: She engaged with approximately 1% of the stakeholders, the consultant doctors who work in the hospitals.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: What about all the other stakeholders? What about the patients and the public? We live in a democracy. What about the GPs? The Minister is very selective in who she considers to be stakeholders.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is there any reason patients from Kilbaha or the upper end of north Tipperary should have to come to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick? Is it not possible, for example, for the consultants in Limerick to supervise the accident and emergency departments in Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's and be responsible for what goes on in them without having to centralise everything in Limerick?...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I see no reason it should not also happen at night. There is a major lack of trust about what the Minister plans to do. I would like to quote from the report: The overriding principle will be that no services will be withdrawn from the current general hospitals prior to the build-up of new, alternative services, i.e. that the Regional Hospital will be resourced, developed and working to...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are again being given a cart-before-the-horse situation where services will be withdrawn from hospitals that provide them with the promise that services will be in place in the Mid-West Regional Hospital. I will again quote from the HSE west report given to representatives last week: 2009 will be a very challenging year in providing the existing level of services with significantly...

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on biofuels; his further views on the biofuels targets at an EU level following the concerns regarding food prices and land use; his further views on the feasibility of second generation biofuels produced here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4545/09]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the delay in publishing the heads of the Fisheries (Amendment) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4546/09]