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Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: All the more reason to debate the measure.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Why did the Taoiseach not provide a briefing on the matter?

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Surely this is all the more reason not to have a guillotine. We need to debate this issue.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: As I understood the Taoiseach this morning when he replied to the leader of the Fine Gael Party, he suggested we should have a debate on health funding. Will he make time for such a debate, particularly in the context of Crumlin hospital-----

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: -----where such a crude measure as a 3% cut has been applied?

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The hospital has taken on new work such as sickle cell disease and there is no provision for funding for that. Can we have a debate on this matter?

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is because they provided the efficiencies.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The wider policy issue is how funding is allocated.

Written Answers — Army Medical Corps: Army Medical Corps (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the consultants report on the Defence Forces Medical Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24702/09]

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, as indicated in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 9 June 2009, she has submitted an application to the European Commission under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund in relation to redundancies at a plant (details supplied) in County Limerick; the amount of money applied for; if she...

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Are there 20 minutes left in tonight's debate?

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: With the permission of the House I wish to share tonight's slot with Deputies Ó Caoláin and Ó Snodaigh and tomorrow night with Deputies Emmet Stagg and Mary Upton. I congratulate the Fine Gael Party, in particular Deputy James Reilly, for tabling the motion on this very important issue. I wish to challenge the Minister, Deputy Harney, and the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, on some of...

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are extreme political arguments to be made on this issue and they are about children in the here and now. It is all very well to talk about what will or may happen if three paediatric hospitals in Dublin are brought together with economies of scale. However, I understand there has not even been a cost-benefit analysis on the bringing together of those hospitals. The work has not been...

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: They are not together at this point but are operating separately. The Minister spoke about the clinicians having to make the decision, which is a clinical one. The clinicians in Crumlin are in an impossible situation. They have 1,318 children on the waiting list. The figures quoted by Deputy Reilly are factual, namely, that between 2004 and 2008, despite most of the increase in budget...

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The demand on the hospital is growing and the clinicians have to respond to that demand. They are doing so in a humane way while the Minister is talking about implementing change. However, the change has not been implemented. We simply must respond to the needs-----

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: -----of the children. There is no point in the Minister telling us what will happen in the future. She should tell us what will happen to the sick children now, to the children with scoliosis whose spinal curvature is increasing day by day because they are waiting for treatment. I shall read from an e-mail I received today: What are these families to do? Watch their child every day to see...

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Exactly.

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: This situation requires a political decision. We are discussing children and costly but life saving operations. One specialist, Dr. Patrick Kiely, a consultant surgeon, has stated that putting off operations makes no economic sense. However, as the HSE is so focused on balancing books, it is making an across-the-board, swingeing cut to the system to every hospital irrespective of the types...

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is a matter of political priority.

Children's Hospital Funding: Motion (23 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Government prioritises getting the banking system right. This is obviously a priority for an economy. However, must it not also be a Government priority that sick children should not wait for an improvement in the system at some point in the future? Five years down the road, the improvements that were supposed to come about because of the HSE have not been implemented. If this is the...