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Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 509: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application for a devolved grant by a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19946/10]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 510: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will grant a full-time learning support and resource teacher to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19947/10]

Order of Business. (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: They have yet to be employed.

Health Service Appointments (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Has the Minister expressed a view to the HSE as to who she believes would be good for the job? She indicated her view that Professor Tom Keane would be a good candidate for the position. We all probably regret that he did not take the job. I am not trying to be vexatious and I put my questions in a positive rather than negative manner. Given that the Minister has experience of many other...

Proposed Legislation (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I presume the Minister of State knows that this offer has been unanimously rejected by the Irish Thalidomide Association. What is his response to that rejection? I went to the association's press conference last week and the offer was rejected because its members felt that there was no real consultation. They were brought in at the very end of the process with the State Claims Agency....

Proposed Legislation (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is the Minister of State expressing that now?

Hospital Services (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the advice she will give to hospitals such as Beaumont whose financial allocation is not adequate to address the needs of patients in their catchment area; the way in which patients are to be protected when wards and theatres are closed and accident and emergency departments are overcrowded and understaffed and when there are growing...

Hospital Services (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: I put it to the Minister that on 29 March 2006 she issued a statement declaring accident and emergency departments to be a national emergency. In 2007 she stated that the HSE said no patient should be waiting more than 24 hours in any accident and emergency unit for admission to a ward and by next year the target is to be a maximum of six hours. The HSE also stated its aim is that no...

Hospital Services (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: More than 300 people were accommodated on trolleys on one day last week. That is the average figure for the month of May, when normally the number of people on trolleys is very small. Despite the Minister's claims about what hospitals will be able to achieve, year after year we see the same statistics. We are not seeing improvements in trolley figures. The same difficulties arise in terms...

Proposed Legislation (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is useful to tease out what will be contained in this legislation which is extremely significant in terms of people's rights regarding health care. We in the Opposition would prefer if it were decided that everybody, whether privately insured or not, has the same rights in the area of health care. How comprehensive will the legislation will be? Will it deal with the mental health area,...

Proposed Legislation (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Adelaide Hospital Society has said it would require only an additional €217 million to provide universal free access to primary care.

Proposed Legislation (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: The society has done its figures, although the Minister disputed that in The Irish Times.

Proposed Legislation (18 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: A set figure has been indicated for every medical card patient.

Written Answers — Garda Equipment: Garda Equipment (13 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when arrangements will be made to instruct members of An Garda Síochána that it is not necessary to take a longhand note of interviews with persons in custody when such interviews are being electronically recorded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19613/10]

Written Answers — Drug Seizures: Drug Seizures (13 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the quantities and values of seizures of heroin, cocaine, cannabis and other drugs within the State during 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; the proportion of the overall flow of drugs into the country that is represented by these seizures; the new initiatives that he is planning to control the flow of illegal drugs...

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (13 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason the standard of primary degree needed for the post-graduate medical course at University of Limerick applies only to the first degree achieved by the student concerned; if she will consider, in conjunction with the Irish Association of Universities and the university concerned, allowing the standard achieved...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: Very subtle.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy is very welcome.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: He was a Labour Party Minister.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 May 2010)

Jan O'Sullivan: -----while others are extremely overworked. Rather than putting the onus of extra costs on the nurses and midwives who are paying the fees, the Minister might review whether there are surplus staff within her Department. The Minister has successfully negotiated with the representatives of health service staff a level of flexibility that may not have existed previously. As such, there may...