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Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion. (4 May 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Irrespective of who draws up the lists, how they are manipulated and what spin is put on them, the fact remains that even using a new accounting method discovered just in time for today's debate, a staggering 22,500 people still await treatment. The Minister's boast is that the figure has been reduced to 22,500 after two years, despite the large amount of money at his disposal. What happened...

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (4 May 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for the development of the airport metro; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10985/04]

Written Answers — Light Rail Project: Light Rail Project (4 May 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for the Luas intersection at the Red Cow roundabout; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10994/04]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion. (4 May 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: I suppose we are only imagining people on trolleys.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion. (4 May 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Now it is the patients' fault.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions. (4 May 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: The Taoiseach should read the report.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 May 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the following urgent matter: the appalling, unsafe and overcrowded conditions at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street; the need for the immediate release of funds for emergency interim measures; and the progression of building design plans to cater for the relocation of the hospital at the earliest possible date.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 May 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: May I raise a point of order? What does constitute a matter of national importance?

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: My party has already stated it will not be found wanting in finding a solution to what we accept is a potential problem with our Constitution. However, we question the timing and method of finding that solution. I am utterly convinced that every State has the right to protect and secure the integrity of its borders and its citizenship rights. If those borders and citizenship rights are no...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: I accept that may be the case. However, the masters have a genuine concern. As spokesperson on health, I hear more than most of the undoubted difficulties our maternity hospitals experience. I have heard of the difficulties future mothers have in booking a place in hospitals, of the overcrowding when they get a place, of women being turfed out 24 hours after giving birth, of the strain on...

Written Answers — Linguistics Institute of Ireland: Linguistics Institute of Ireland (30 Mar 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to the liquidation of the Linguistics Institute of Ireland and the continued use of the library resource; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9696/04]

Written Answers — Voluntary Health Insurance: Voluntary Health Insurance (30 Mar 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 360: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the practice by VHI of charging a higher subscription for travel insurance for over 65s; and if this practice contravenes the principle of community rating. [9651/04]

Written Answers — Health Service Reform: Health Service Reform (30 Mar 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 366: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he has informed the professional representatives on the health boards that their services will no longer be required in view of the fact that many of their terms do not expire for several years; and his views on the status of the legislation enabling him to abolish health boards. [9717/04]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (30 Mar 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 396: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Mid-Western Health Board has provided a site to the Mid-Western Hospital Trust for the purpose of building a radiotherapy unit; if the planned radiotherapy unit will treat public and private patients; the way this planned radiotherapy unit will fit in with the Minister's plans for the development of radiation oncology services...

Written Answers — Hepatitis C Incidence: Hepatitis C Incidence (30 Mar 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 404: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made in identifying and contacting late informants in respect of donors or others contaminated with hepatitis C; if there are outstanding cases as yet not notified; the action which has been taken in terms of counselling and compensation; if a further public enquiry is envisaged; and if further civil cases...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (30 Mar 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 410: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the extent of the backlog of unmet needs in the disability area as a result of virtually static budgets since 2002; and when some of this unmet need will be met by way of capital and revenue funding. [9548/04]

Written Answers — Noise Pollution: Noise Pollution (30 Mar 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 466: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the laws that are in place to control noise nuisance through unattended house alarms; and if further strengthening of the law is envisaged in view of the considerable noise nuisance which they cause in densely populated areas. [9714/04]

Hepatitis C Incidence. (17 Feb 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: I am raising one aspect of the ten-year blood scandal saga, which is as scandalous as any of the others with which we are familiar. It is the failure to inform some blood donors that they had tested positive for hepatitis C, which precluded them from protecting other members of their family and loved ones, and from seeking treatment in a timely manner. In other words people with a highly...

Hepatitis C Incidence. (17 Feb 2004)

Olivia Mitchell: On a point of information, I did not say that.