Results 761-780 of 3,707 for speaker:Brian O'Shea

Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: That is agreed.

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to change homemakers disregards to homemakers credits. [30777/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to make homemakers disregards retrospective for all women who engaged in unpaid care work from 1953. [30778/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to ask the Health Service Executive to review the long stay charges national guidelines regarding levying a charge on persons for long stay inpatient services, where persons with an intellectual, physical or mental disability are residing in community type residences, bearing in mind that in a substantial...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the national radiation oncology co-ordinating group will provide advice to the Health Service Executive on solutions regarding designated transport for patients. [31276/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to provide designated funding to ensure equal access to radiotherapy for all cancer patients requiring same. [31277/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether delays in the provision of radiotherapy treatment will halve survival rates for cancer patients; and the priority she will give to designated nationwide transport. [31278/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that 21% of cancer patients here are receiving radiotherapy when the European uptake is 60%; and her plans to fast track the provision of radiotherapy facilities. [31280/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which Waterford Regional Hospital should proceed with its proposal for the development of radiotherapy services in view of her commitment to significantly develop radiotherapy services earlier than 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31284/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proposals of the Health Service Executive to seek tenders or expressions of interest to develop a private radiotherapy facility at Waterford Regional Hospital. [31279/05]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the developments which have taken place to ensure that BreastCheck is available in the south and west in January 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31281/05]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the outcome of the cervical cancer screening trial programme in the mid-west region; her proposals regarding cervical cancer screening; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31282/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the priority she will seek for cancer services in budget 2006 in view of the fact that one in three of the population will be diagnosed with cancer and that one in four will die of cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31283/05]

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 290: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 432 of 11 October 2005, the Gaeltacht primary schools that teach all classes through the medium of Irish; the Gaeltacht primary schools that do not teach all classes through the medium of Irish; the Gaeltacht post primary schools that teach all classes through the medium of Irish; the Gaeltacht...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (27 Oct 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 292: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to review the 1929 University College Galway Act in the context of being an effective and pro-active tool for promoting Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31275/05]

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (2 Nov 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of deaths and injuries reported arising from industrial accidents in each year from 2000 to 2004 and to date in 2005; the further steps he intends to take to reduce the level of such accidents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31610/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Inquiries: Departmental Inquiries (2 Nov 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the costs incurred by the State, at the latest date for which figures are available, arising from the various inquiries instigated by or on behalf of his Department; the element of these costs which have been recovered from any of the other parties involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31609/05]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (2 Nov 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is in order for a person in the at risk group for influenza to be charged a consultant fee where the vaccine is administered by a nurse attached to a family doctor's practice and the person does not have a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32035/05]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (2 Nov 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 279: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to waive the consultation fee for patients who are in the at risk groups relating to influenza and who do not have a medical card on the basis that this consultation fee can prove to be a deterrent for those who would otherwise avail of the free vaccine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32036/05]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (2 Nov 2005)

Brian O'Shea: Question 280: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her views on whether the Health Service Executive leaflet on the influenza vaccine is misleading in that it indicates that the vaccine is free to all persons in the at risk groups when this is effectively only the case for medical card holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32037/05]