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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Our objective is to save the best aspects of our health services. St. Luke's Hospital has indisputably played an enormous part in many people's recovery from cancer - people from throughout the country - over many years. I say this in the context of being fully supportive of the cancer strategy. Whenever we raise issues at the edge of the cancer strategy, the Minister disingenuously claims...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is not acceptable.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Once again the Minister is distorting what Opposition Deputies have said. I previously stated that we did not believe 32 hospitals should carry out surgery and we completely supported her decision in that regard. She should not shake her head because I want the same respect as the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, demanded. We are entitled to this respect as public representatives. We are...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am talking about cancer not radiation. This is precisely what I meant when I stated the Minister is interpreted our words in a way that suits her argument.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister should refer to what is in the amendment, rather than what she imagines is in it.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: The first amendment is an additional amendment.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. a1: "(2) The Health Acts 1947 to 2010 and this Act shall be construed together as one Act and the collective citation "the Health Acts 1947 to 2010" shall include this Act.". This is a drafting amendment that was circulated after the list of other amendments and I do not propose to delay the time of the House on it. Will the Ceann Comhairle clarify if any of the other...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Amendment No. a1 is a drafting amendment and I hope the Minister of State will accept it.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will withdraw the amendment as I do not want to delay the time of House discussing it further.

Written Answers — Carbon Levy: Carbon Levy (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way he intends off-setting the impact of higher fuel costs on poorer households as a result of the introduction of carbon levies. [27993/10]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the recruitment process for the 200 new social worker posts being recruited this year; if it is the case that social workers who are in temporary positions with the Health Service Executive are being given priority; if those temporary positions will be filled when current holders of such posts are given permanent positions; if those...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in identifying funding to re-open the respite house at Clonile, County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28465/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Redress Scheme: Hospital Redress Scheme (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 311: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the decision not to include the 35 persons who have a strong case to be included in the Lourdes hospital redress scheme in view of the circumstances of their cases and the small number of persons involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28467/10]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 585: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow a school (details supplied) in County Limerick to make emergency temporary appointments, despite the moratorium, in view of the fact that the school will not be able to function because it has lost half of its non-teaching staff in the past year and may not be able to maintain its caretaking and...

Patient Safety: Motion (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: There is no doubt that there is a crisis of confidence in the health service that has been caused by a succession of scandals in recent years, most of them relating to misdiagnosis. The one described by Melissa Redmond on television, and other mothers who subsequently came forward, went to the core of many women's need to feel confident in the early stages of pregnancy. When they are told...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: We were discussing amendments Nos. 28, 30, 71 and 72. Amendment No. 72 is in my name and Deputy Shatter already addressed his amendments. The amendments are related in so far as they pertain to relationship between the biological parents and their spouses or relatives and their various rights to adoption and access to their children. Amendment No. 72 proposes that a parent, relative or...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: According to the explanatory memorandum, the purpose of the Bill is to provide "for restating or updating of the provisions of the Adoption Acts 1952-1998, as appropriate, and for the repeal of those Acts. It also gives force of law to the Hague Convention". The purpose of the amendments is to ensure the legislation is as comprehensive as possible, which is clearly not the intention of the...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Lest I am misunderstood, I was referring to domestic adoptions.

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 31: In page 25, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "(7) In exercising its functions in relation to recognition of an adoption effected outside the State, the Authority shall insofar as possible recognise an adoption effected outside the State by a person who was ordinarily resident in the jurisdiction in which the adoption was effected at the time it was...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 33: In page 25, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: 21.—A person or couple who has or have prior to the commencement of this Part adopted a child from another country, may notwithstanding this Act conduct a second or subsequent adoption from that country within 5 years of such commencement if the Authority is satisfied that the standards that are being or...