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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (22 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 573. To ask the Minister for Health the number of administrative staff who were employed by the Department of Health in 2005, that is, clerical officers, staff officers, and executive officers; the number of middle and senior managers who were employed, that is, higher executive officers, assistant principals, principals, assistant secretaries, deputy secretaries general and Secretaries...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (22 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 574. To ask the Minister for Health the number of administrative, middle and senior management staff, non-medical, that were employed by the Health Service Executive in 2005; if he will provide a breakdown of job titles; on a category-by-category basis, how these numbers compare with staff numbers employed in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44695/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (22 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 575. To ask the Minister for Health the non-core basic wage payments middle and senior management staff, non-medical, in the Health Service Executive received in 2012; if he will list the details of these payments including descriptions and rationale; the benefit in kind middle and senior management staff, non-medical, received in 2012; if he will list the benefits including sponsored trips...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hearing Tests (22 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 576. To ask the Minister for Health the system that is in place for testing newborns for deafness and for children acquiring hearing loss within the first 12 months; the policy implemented by Health Service Executive and supporting agencies for support for these children and their parents in the early years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44700/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hearing Tests (22 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 579. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding his target to ensure that there is a universal hearing test for all newborns at all maternity hospitals by 2014; the specific elements of the Health Service Executive care pathways for a newborn, from the initial hearing test to the process of fitting a hearing aid for a baby; if he will identify where there are current gaps in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hearing Tests (22 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 577. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding community waiting lists for basic hearing tests of children up to 24 months and access to supporting routine hearing services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44701/13]

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My first contact with the deaf community was through students of mine whose parents were profoundly deaf. That brought me into the deaf club which was then located at the top of Clonliffe Road. I have been to Deaf Village Ireland on Ratoath Road many times and I am well aware of the facilities and services available there. I support equality of treatment for the deaf community. The 2009...

Standing Orders: Motion (17 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am sharing time with Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly.

Standing Orders: Motion (17 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am committed to parliamentary democracy. As a woman, I am always conscious of my rights because I live in a democracy when so many women and girls across the world do not. I agree that we need greater efficiency in our parliamentary democracy and the programme for Government set out certain reforms in this regard. However, decreasing the number of Deputies and constituencies without...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (17 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 142. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider removing the text which states that coursing leads to some mortality each year but management of coursing reserves has also been shown to be beneficial to hares leading to higher hare densities, as this text is misleading and inaccurate without substantial evidence to support the claim; the evidence used to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 223. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that renal failure is one of the top causes of death for children with spina bifida, the reason since 2009, when spina bifida care was transferred to Temple Street University Hospital, there has not been a paediatric urologist established in the hospital to carry out routine monitoring tests such as blood test for kidneys, renal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict: Discussion with Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (16 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I asked about people moving from the camps.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict: Discussion with Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (16 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Is there not a camp in Jenin in Gaza?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict: Discussion with Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (16 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My apologies for missing the start of the meeting but I have just come from the Chamber. The Minister's visit to this committee today has generated an amount of e-mail correspondence. I am sure that I like everybody else got these e-mails from groups. They are entitled to their opinion and to ask us to examine other aspects. One concern is about Irish Aid money, which Deputy Byrne has...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I will share time with Deputy Sean Fleming. There used to be a time when people were not so fearful of budgets. They approached them in the expectation that something would come from them, and something usually did, whether a small increase in the old age pension, social welfare or the Christmas bonus, which is still very badly missed in inner city communities. Today people are approaching...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Inland Waterways Maintenance (16 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 59. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will identify the parties concerned with the operation of the lifting bridge which occupies the site of the original first lock on the Royal Canal Newcomen Bridge, Dublin 1; the factors that contribute to the status of the lifting bridge; if he will convene a meeting of interests concerned with the operation of the lifting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (16 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 127. To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain the discrepancy of the CAS number of natural fluoride being 16984-48-8 while the product specification of fluoride used in our water is different 16961-83-4 (details supplied); the reason natural fluoride is not being used in our water supply; the organisation that has approved the fluoride as detailed in the product specification as...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (16 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide for the rehabilitation of the Scherzer Bridge also known as the Rusty Bridge, Sheriff Street, Dublin 1 and the opening up of that point to full Royal Canal navigation as a means of animating the canal-line itself, consistent with the objectives of the Spencer Dock to Newcomen Bridge Greenway; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (16 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct the parties to the Dublin City Centre Transport Study, the National Transport Authority, Dublin City Council, C.I.E. and Waterways Ireland, to include in their considerations issues regarding the Royal Canal/C.I.E. lifting bridge North Strand, Dublin 1 and the Scherzer Bridge, Sheriff Street, Dublin 1 in the joint...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Remit (15 Oct 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will engage on a political level with his political counterpart in Greece in relation to a person (details supplied); if he will speak to the Greek Ambassador to Ireland; the formal steps he will take to raise the concerns of the Irish family involved in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter....