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Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: I only always quote the INMO figure.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: Even the Ministers officials state that is not a major factor.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: I think I am entitled to half of the time for these two questions.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: I want to ask a simple question of the Minister. Why will she not sanction the opening of more beds in order to relieve this pressure and take those poor patients out of their misery when they are lying on trolleys?

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is the only quick way.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is fine but why are new beds being opened?

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: Absolutely. What is the point in having them?

Hospital Accommodation (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: When I saw that three of the first four ordinary questions had gone in the lottery to my colleagues, Deputies Reilly and Ó Caoláin, I was going to suggest that, considering their good luck, they should do the lotto this evening. However, seeing that Question Time is almost over, it is not of any great advantage to them.

Hospital Accommodation (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: I join my colleagues in expressing sympathy with the families of the two people who have died as a result of swine flu. Can the Minister provide any further information in this regard? I do not know how much of it is a matter of public record. The Minister referred to a special team that will go into some hospitals to deal with overcrowding in accident and emergency departments. She...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding has now been committed to move the emergency department to the ground floor of the critical care unit being developed at the Mid-West Regional Hospital; when it is expected to commence developing the unit and when same will be completed; if plans are being drawn up for the staffing of the unit; and if she will make a...

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: Just the nineteenth hole.

Departmental Staff (12 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is because the Government has delayed the introduction of proper legislation on risk equalisation for more than two and a half years that elderly people who have paid into the VHI all their lives are now finding that their premiums have increased by up to 45%.

Departmental Staff (12 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: Can the Taoiseach tell the House what progress has been made in those two and a half years in drafting proper legislation on risk equalisation? It should not take that length of time. That is the reason elderly people are now being asked to pay increased premiums.

Departmental Staff (12 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: Two and a half years.

Departmental Staff (12 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: The last report was about putting in another mayor of Dublin.

Swimming Pool Projects (12 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is a most urgent matter. If it is not resolved, the swimming pool and sports complex will close this Friday. We are talking about the loss of 25 jobs and the removal of a vital amenity for the 24 schools which use the complex, including St. Enda's community school on whose grounds it is situated, as well as various community groups and swimming clubs. It would be an absolute betrayal...

Written Answers — Insurance Industry: Insurance Industry (12 Jan 2011)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on progress with the restructuring of the Quinn Group including, specifically, the sale or re-organisation of Quinn Insurance; if all efforts are being made to secure the best interests of workers and customers of the company including the maintenance of employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1380/11]

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am sure the Tánaiste is aware of a judgment in the European Court of Human Rights which decided that a woman who had cancer had her rights violated because the Government has not implemented the decision of the people in a constitutional referendum on the right to life of a woman and, when her life is in danger, the right to an abortion. The court's ruling is binding. The Government has...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I would like to share my time with Deputy Stagg, if he comes into the Chamber before I finish speaking. The Labour Party supports the Bill. We will facilitate its passage. It is one of a number of measures recommended in the McCarthy report to reduce the number of bodies, boards and organisations of all kinds that may have been considered necessary when they were set up but are much less...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: This section deals with the commencement of the Act. Does the Minister of State know when it is intended to commence the Act?