Results 13,081-13,100 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (15 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way he plans to resolve the current problem with the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Services-Oireachtas email facility for asylum seekers and refugees, which has not operated for more than two months, in order that Deputies can respond to various queries raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is it time to man the lifeboats?

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister asked us questions.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (9 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a second dermatologist has been appointed in the mid-west; if not, when the embargo of that post will be lifted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24690/10]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will introduce regulation or legislation to address the difficulties that District Courts are having in enforcing the payment of maintenance orders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24681/10]

Implementation of the Ryan Report: Statements (9 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: The report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, known as the Ryan report, revealed some dreadful, harrowing and unforgivable mistreatment of children in the care of the State many years ago. Unfortunately, Members can do nothing to bring back the childhood of those young people, who now are adults. All that can be done for them is to provide a certain level of compensation, as...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (3 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons (details supplied) in County Limerick were not awarded the additional three weeks redundancy entitlements following a Labour Court recommendation when 42 of their co-workers were awarded same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23959/10]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister. She said in her own contribution that she has engaged with the Friends of St. Luke's and is waiting to hear from them. Maybe she can give us a clearer picture when she replies. I have doubts and concerns because I am familiar with reconfiguration. It is happening in my own region. In spite of all the assurances given to us that there would be full resources available...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will begin my contribution now and continue when the debate resumes. Deputy Shatter's proposals are sensible, are in the interests of the child and address real issues, particularly the issue of natural mothers having to adopt their own children through the Adoption Board, which makes no sense whatsoever. In the short time remaining I propose to address the issue raised by Deputy Shatter...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I hope I clarified that matter.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: On a point of order, a copy of the Minister's script is normally circulated to Members if the Minister is reading from one. Are copies of the script available?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: If Deputy Quinn attends this debate, I would like to share my time with him.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is with a sense of sadness that we discuss the change of the role St. Luke's Hospital in Dublin, which has been caring for cancer patients from all over Ireland for more than 50 years. I understand it was founded by the then Cancer Association of Ireland in 1954. No family in Ireland has not had some experience of the care provided by St. Luke's Hospital. My family experienced it, since...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I do not have a problem with the amendments being grouped.

Written Answers — Defence Forces Recruitment: Defence Forces Recruitment (2 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will consider taking new recruits after leaving certificate and train them for six to eight weeks during the summer period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23358/10]

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will not waste any further time but will press the amendment.

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am bewildered by that answer which does not provide clarification, particularly the last point. Let me first deal with a factual point. Amendment No. 86 is in this group of amendments. That amendment states: In page 65, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: "(e) promoting the development of services to assist persons who were adopted and persons who have placed children for...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Several of these amendments are in my name. Amendment No. 17 proposes that the birth should be registered prior to placement for adoption. That is in some ways a separate issue to that addressed in the other amendments which deal with the father. It is an extraordinary omission that the birth does not have to be registered before the placement for adoption. Deputy Shatter's amendment...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am not suggesting that a father has any particular rights in the case of rape or in the case where he went out of the mother's life the day after conception. The balance of the rights in this section and in later sections, to which my further amendments relate, treat a child's right to have a father as something trivial and that is not available to all children. That is fundamentally...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jun 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 17: In page 20, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "(a) the birth of the child has been registered, and either the particulars of the father have been registered or the mother has sworn and furnished to the accredited body a statutory declaration that the father is unknown or missing, and cannot be traced using reasonable inquiries, unless the court permits...