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Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (1 Apr 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the contacts she has had with the industrial development agencies with a view to securing alternative employment for the 1,800 workers who, it was announced in January 2009, are to lose their jobs at a company (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13343/09]

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (1 Apr 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the announcement of the loss of a further 230 jobs at a company (details supplied); the discussions she has had with the company regarding these job losses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13342/09]

Order of Business (1 Apr 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I welcome the announcement by the Government to ban the so-called party drug BZP. Have the regulations on this been implemented? The second issue I wish to raise is the Adoption Bill 2009, which was on the list of legislation for this term. It is coming from the Seanad. There is a concern that the bilateral agreement between Ireland and Vietnam is coming to an end and that a time factor...

Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way it is proposed to protect vulnerable children at weekends in the absence of social work cover; if she will ensure that such cover is provided for those children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13060/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has established a mechanism to protect funding for new developments in the areas of mental health, disability, palliative care, Travellers' health and other specific areas from being used for other proposes in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13094/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on correspondence sent to her by the Irish Human Rights Commission, dated 23 October 2008, in which it recommended that she should reconsider her decision not to establish an external review of the use of symphysiotomy between the 1950s and the 1980s; if she will implement this recommendation; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that a national co-ordinator is appointed who has the appropriate authority and knowledge to deal with the health needs of persons who underwent symphysiotomy procedures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13218/09]

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Of all the various testimonies I have heard, none has been more moving than that of Orla Tinsley who has outlined the daily struggles of people with cystic fibrosis in Ireland. She has spoken of the issues they must weigh up such as when they know they must go into hospital, but are terrified of the cross infection they may encounter in our hospital system in Ireland. It is unbelievable and...

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is not the private sector's responsibility to provide a public health service for CF sufferers, for whom this is a matter of life and death. In the strongest manner possible, I urge that the promise be fulfilled in 2010.

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister of State knows that his answer was not good enough.

Social Welfare: Motion (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Health Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received proposals from the Health Service Executive for the cuts it proposes to make to achieve the savings in its budget required of it by the Government in 2009; the action she will take to protect patients from the effects of these cuts; the estimated number of bed closures envisaged in these proposals and the timeframe;...

Health Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for her reply. I understand she has not yet received the revised plan. When she does, will she establish a bottom line as regards the services she will protect? What will occur if she does not agree with the plan? Will she be in a position to reject it or will she make alternative proposals if she feels it is too harsh on health services? Is it true that the cuts will...

Health Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Minister answer my question on whether she has a bottom line on what she would consider to be going too far in terms of affecting patient care?

Health Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: It will be very hard to get those kinds of cuts in those areas.

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The process in the mid-west, which will be similar to the services in the south and elsewhere, involves the reduction of accident and emergency units to a 12-hour service, the removal of all surgery bar day surgery through the lack of surgeons available on a 24-hour basis and the events occurring in respect of the medical team. This gradual removal, the first element of which will occur in...

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Minister invest the capital and other resources identified in the teamwork report?

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss an issue of national importance and concern, namely, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to fulfil her promise to provide facilities for cystic fibrosis patients at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, by the end of 2010.

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (26 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals or options under consideration by his Department for the taxing of telephone and Internet betting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12311/09]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (26 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance his technical understanding of the term "economic depression"; his views on whether Ireland is on the verge of fulfilling or has already fulfilled these criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12312/09]