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Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are other ways to deal with that, such as using more generic drugs.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy Costello's time has nearly concluded.

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy Durkan looks very elegant.

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the current situation regarding the centralisation of the processing of medical card applications; the level of service that will remain in local health offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34668/10]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of the 99 child and adolescent mental health teams that have been committed to that have been delivered to date; of the child and adolescent mental health teams which are operational, the number that have a full complement of staff as recommended in A Vision for Change; the number of staff currently working in child and...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the trained professionals or multi-disciplinary teams that are in place on a 24-hour basis within accident and emergency departments to treat those presenting with suicidal tendencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34874/10]

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to share my time with Deputies Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Brendan Howlin and Seán Sherlock.

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I commend Deputy Reilly and his Fine Gael colleagues. It is very important for us to debate this motion tonight. There is a great deal of pain, suffering pain and concern within communities around the country because of the numbers of people on trolleys, waiting for operations and because of the numbers losing their services, including those with disabilities and the elderly who are losing...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I, too, welcome the Bill, but I have a number of issues I want to raise today with the Minister of State. I also have a number of amendments to table, when we get to Committee Stage. The main purpose of the legislation is to provide for a statutory scheme, whereby the High Court will have exclusive jurisdiction in special care cases. This is sensible in so far as it involves amending the...

Health Service Investigations (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to raise with the Minister policy issues pertaining to people who undergo X-rays and other investigative procedures. We want to have proper procedures in place to ensure this does not happen again to other patients. Will the Minister clarify the procedures being followed in our hospitals to ensure X-rays are appropriately read? I also want to ask her about the 1,059 patients who...

Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I, too, would like to refer back to the previous question in the context of this one because that is what I meant when I said it was a policy issue in regard to the GP referral letters. As the Minister said, pathways of care are crucial to ensure we have proper relationships between the primary care system and the acute hospitals. I would like to know when we will get information, and I do...

Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is that from public hospitals?

Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if discussions are on-going between her Department and the Health Service Executive to change the compensation on termination clauses in contracts for the building of co-located private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals; if these discussions have concluded and if changes are being made; if so if she will detail these...

Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Does the Minister still plan to go ahead with these projects, especially in view of the fact that her own expert working group under Ms Frances Ruane stated, on page 51 of its report, there is a surplus of private hospital space and a shortage of public hospital space? Why is the Minister proceeding with this project despite the fact there is officially a surplus of private hospital space?...

Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: That does not mean it is right.

Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is the Minister's ideological approach.

Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I put it to the Minister that one reason we do not have enough acute beds in the public service is because almost 1,000 of them have been closed. No number of private hospital beds will address that issue. It is not that we do not physically have beds in acute public hospitals, rather that we do not have the resources to staff them. Is it not true that if the Minister gives tax breaks to...

Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is a different issue.

Hospitals Building Programme (5 Oct 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: We have too many private beds.