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Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: A constituent of mine who requested a file from a hospital some years ago was told they could not have it because it was the property of the health board. I tabled a question in 2006 on a specific incident involving a file being lost to which I received a detailed reply from the HSE advising that all files would be destroyed in a proper manner. Given that the file I inquired about a number...

Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Patients and their families are worried and upset at the notion that members of the public have access to files to which they were denied access.

Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Has the Data Protection Commissioner being informed of this matter? Will we hear about what happened in this instance or how it happened?

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (30 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by SIPTU that the treatment of some foreign workers employed as domestic workers amounts to forced slavery and that the union is taking three cases per month on behalf of foreign domestic workers to the Labour Court; his views on this development; if he is satisfied...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (30 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to the proposed EU Directive on Agency Workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16557/08]

Student Support Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I do not intend to speak for the allotted 20 minutes, although perhaps when I start, I will speak for that long or even longer. I welcome this Bill. We have been continuously asking for its introduction in the past few years because there was such a clear need for it. All Deputies would like to see more provisions in the Bill but, nevertheless, the fact that it is regularising how grants...

Student Support Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: That is agreed.

Written Answers — Patient Care: Patient Care (29 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to review the structures of the Health Service Executive in the context of growing concern among the public and health workers that it is not delivering improved care to patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16323/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the terms and conditions of arrangements between the Health Service Executive, on the one hand, and Mercy University Hospital Cork in particular and the other voluntary hospitals here in general, on the other hand; if each of these arrangements has been reduced to writing; the nature and effect of directions issued by her under Section...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps being taken to ensure that Irish domiciled taxpayers are fully tax compliant for income and capital gains tax earned in respect of foreign properties in their possession, or previously in their possession; if he will supply a revised estimate of the number of Irish resident taxpayers in possession of foreign properties; and...

Written Answers — Public Sector Reform: Public Sector Reform (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the OECD report on the public service here and the proposals he will bring forward on the basis of its recommendations. [15595/08]

Cancer Reports: Statements (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy should conclude.

Cancer Reports: Statements (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I call Deputy Flanagan who has ten minutes.

Cancer Reports: Statements (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Deputy Ring can have ten minutes later but if the Deputy wishes to share——

Cancer Reports: Statements (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I beg your pardon, Deputy. Of course, Deputy O'Rourke is next. She has ten minutes.

Cancer Reports: Statements (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I apologise. The Deputy has ten minutes.

Cancer Reports: Statements (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy's hard work was clearly appreciated by those who re-elected her. I apologise again.

Cancer Reports: Statements (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputy for his co-operation. I call Deputy Ring who has ten minutes.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the fact that 9,600 children are on a waiting list for the BCG vaccination in the Cork area. Over the past two years there has been a rise in TB notifications in the HSE south region with 96 cases notified in 2006 and 110 cases in 2007 — the highest level of incidence in the...

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (23 Apr 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his proposals for banning junk food advertising aimed at young people; his time-frame for this proposal; if this will be addressed by the Broadcasting Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14658/08]