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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Motion (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to move amendment No. 2 to the motion in the name of the Labour Party if it is appropriate.

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Motion (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am glad we had an opportunity to table the amendment and to make the points we wish to make. I welcome this debate because it is important we have an opportunity in the parliamentary Chamber to raise this important issue and tease out what are the obstacles for the families who have to cope with this devastating illness. While we proposed an amendment to the Government's motion, it is...

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of children at risk who have not been allocated a social worker; if she will address the shortage of social workers to keep children safe; if she will implement the recommendation of the Monageer inquiry that a social work service should be available out of hours in order that there can be effective intervention in...

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: We heard the dreadful litany of abuse in the last day or two, with the release of the report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. We do not have that kind of abuse any more in schools or institutions because, thankfully, we have learned lessons and moved on. However, with more than 6,400 children at risk without an allocated social worker, I must put to the Minister of State there...

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Minister of State listen to all the expertise and views out there that we need an out of hours social work service? Will the Government reconsider the decision it made in that regard? It seems to be about money. It is a relatively small amount of money. I understand it is €15 million. The HSE spent €17 million on consultants in the last year.

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am sure it could be done in a different way.

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: We all agree that primary care teams are good. What is at issue is how to achieve them. Perhaps the Minister would drop her ideology for a minute in dealing with this matter. The Minister said it was stated in the budget that the private sector would provide premises and so on. That is not working. I know it is not working. I know of general practitioners who are receiving letters from...

Health Service Inquiries. (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Including Question No. 36.

Health Service Inquiries. (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: In his initial reply to Question No. 5, the Minister of State noted that he may apprise the Joint Committee on Health and Children of the content of the redacted recommendations of the Monageer report. I put it to him that he will build greater public confidence in the Government's good intentions if he finds a way to publish the recommendations rather than apprise the committee of them....

Health Service Inquiries. (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Presumably whoever wrote the legal recommendation received legal advice.

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Minister take cognisance of geographical areas if ten centres are designated? If she repeats what she did under the cancer strategy and leaves a vast swathe of the country without a service, that would not be acceptable, particularly in regard to rheumatology services, which many people need. We have a lost a great deal of time in the appointment of consultants because of the time...

Written Answers — Monageer Inquiry Report: Monageer Inquiry Report (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason certain recommendations in the report of the inquiry into the deaths of a family in Monageer, County Wexford have been blacked out; if she will publish the recommendations in full in order that lessons can be learned from them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20453/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been given an assessment of the long-term affects on services and waiting times of the widespread cutbacks to front-line health care already implemented and planned for implementation for 2009; if she has alternative proposals to the current cutbacks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20452/09]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the capital funding that has been allocated to public facilities for long-stay bed units to be upgraded in accordance with the new Health Information and Quality Authority standards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20538/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (21 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of new beds provided for acute hospitals since 2006; the number planned for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20539/09]

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (20 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on amended plans for REP scheme four resubmitted by farmers who were rejected from the 2008 scheme as a result of deficiencies in their REP scheme plans due to a breakdown in communication between REP scheme planners and his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20179/09]

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to begin where Deputy Reilly finished. It is vital that we get the regulation of health insurance right, including the underpinning of community rating. It will be one of the main building blocks of a fair and equitable health system for the future. All the evidence, including opinion polls and what we are hearing on the doorsteps, suggests that the current Government will be out of...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am not necessarily talking about the Dutch model because there are elements of what Labour and Fine Gael are proposing which are not necessarily exactly in line with that. However, we both subscribe to the core universal, single-tier model based on all the population being insured, with the State subsidising those who cannot afford to pay, and those who can afford to pay paying most of...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: It still irks people to see the way we are doing it, with money being directly transferred from certain companies to others. There is also much distrust about not ring-fencing the levy and not making it clear that the levy goes back into the system.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (19 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: We all know about black holes in the health budget and about money that was assigned for implementing the vision for change plan, palliative care and Traveller's health that went elsewhere in the HSE. There is already distrust about saying that money will be used in a certain way but that in actual fact-----