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Written Answers — Hospital Redress Scheme: Hospital Redress Scheme (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 311: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the decision not to include the 35 persons who have a strong case to be included in the Lourdes hospital redress scheme in view of the circumstances of their cases and the small number of persons involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28467/10]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 585: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow a school (details supplied) in County Limerick to make emergency temporary appointments, despite the moratorium, in view of the fact that the school will not be able to function because it has lost half of its non-teaching staff in the past year and may not be able to maintain its caretaking and...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: The first amendment is an additional amendment.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. a1: "(2) The Health Acts 1947 to 2010 and this Act shall be construed together as one Act and the collective citation "the Health Acts 1947 to 2010" shall include this Act.". This is a drafting amendment that was circulated after the list of other amendments and I do not propose to delay the time of the House on it. Will the Ceann Comhairle clarify if any of the other...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Amendment No. a1 is a drafting amendment and I hope the Minister of State will accept it.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will withdraw the amendment as I do not want to delay the time of House discussing it further.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Our objective is to save the best aspects of our health services. St. Luke's Hospital has indisputably played an enormous part in many people's recovery from cancer - people from throughout the country - over many years. I say this in the context of being fully supportive of the cancer strategy. Whenever we raise issues at the edge of the cancer strategy, the Minister disingenuously claims...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is not acceptable.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Once again the Minister is distorting what Opposition Deputies have said. I previously stated that we did not believe 32 hospitals should carry out surgery and we completely supported her decision in that regard. She should not shake her head because I want the same respect as the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, demanded. We are entitled to this respect as public representatives. We are...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am talking about cancer not radiation. This is precisely what I meant when I stated the Minister is interpreted our words in a way that suits her argument.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister should refer to what is in the amendment, rather than what she imagines is in it.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, lines 29 to 31, to delete all words from and including "may" in line 29 down to and including "section" in line 31 and substitute the following: "may not dispose of any land (including buildings) vested in it by this section and must continue to use the land (including buildings) vested in it by this section for medical purposes related to the treatment of...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Report Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 10, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: 4.—Specified kinds of levies imposed under section 33J and payable by classes persons who are subject to regulation under the designated enactments and designated statutory instruments shall be fixed at a rate calculated to ensure, as near as may be, that the total amount of each specified kind of levy...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the creation of 900 civilian posts within the Garda has resulted in the release of only 144 Garda personnel for frontline policing duties, as highlighted in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General; the steps he will take to ensure greater use of civilian personnel, as recommended in the recent report...

Written Answers — Garda Reserve: Garda Reserve (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total number of members of the Garda Reserve recruited to date; the stations to which they have been allocated; the total number of applicants for the Reserve currently in training; if he is satisfied with the rate of recruitment; when he expects that the full complement of 1,500 will be in place; if restrictions have...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: This week the Minister for Health and Children referred a question I tabled to the HSE for reply, which is not an uncommon practice. However, the Minister, the Taoiseach and the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children with responsibility for disability claim to have entered negotiations with a view to resolving the issue to which my question pertained, namely, the closure...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Who can get an answer for me if the Ceann Comhairle cannot? I tried to raise the issue on the Adjournment but was told I could not do so because somebody else had already raised it.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I raised it as a priority question and received a reply from the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children with responsibility for children instead of the Minister or the Minister of State with responsibility for disability. This issue must be resolved before the Dáil adjourns. If the Minister will not answer a question on a matter in which she is clearly involved, what is...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will not sit down until the Ceann Comhairle tells me how I can get an answer.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Why not?