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Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (24 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 103: 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 are due to lose their jobs at a company (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7253/09]

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (24 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has sent the text of a draft agreement to the Vietnamese Government in relation to inter-country adoption between the two countries; if not, if she will ensure that this happens; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7308/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the paediatric high dependency care unit in the Mid-West Regional Hospital, Limerick will open; if it is being given priority in terms of services urgently needed in the region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7660/09]

Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: We must have a debate on the health services and the effects of the shortfall.

Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: We must have a debate.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the level three critical care unit to be in place at the Mid-West Regional Hospital, Limerick. [6558/09]

Written Answers — Rights of the Child: Rights of the Child (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the input she has had into discussions on proposals aimed at inserting the rights of children into the Constitution. [6525/09]

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Bethany House is a relatively new building.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she intends to proceed with the plan for co-located hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals; if she has satisfied herself that the proposals are viable in view of the economic climate; the position in regard to each proposed project, including whether or not contracts have been signed, the planned commencement date of each and...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister announced this proposal in 2004 and she said it would be a quick way to provide beds in acute hospitals. Does she accept she has failed miserably in this regard? Five years later, no block has been laid, no bed has been provided and no patient has been catered for and none will be for probably two years. The Minister did not reply to the question about when the first beds will...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I do not dispute that.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: In the current economic climate, can the taxpayer afford to forego approximately €800 million in tax over seven years for these projects? Does the Minister believe there will be private funding for them?

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: What about tax foregone?

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: What about getting the 700 patients out of acute beds who are ready to be discharged?

Hospital Staff. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I also accept that in the interests of both the safety of patients and doctors that the hours must be reduced in accordance with the working time directive. However, until such time as those consultants are appointed, the same junior hospital doctors are still going to have to work the same hours as before or else patients will be left unattended. I had a long conversation with a young...

Clinical Indemnity Scheme. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: My question is more or less the same. Does the Minister have a timescale for publication of that report? Every Deputy would consider it eminent sense that the money should go to the children and their families instead of to the legal profession.

Health Services. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: This is a particularly disturbing aspect of child care for everyone concerned. While it is welcome that the numbers have fallen, the idea that young children can go missing at all is highly worrying. The Minister of State spoke of inspection but in the case of young children, the issue does not pertain to physical inspections as much as to the care system and whether such children are...

Health Service Staff. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister replied to a similar question tabled by me on 25 November 2008, when she provided far more information than she gave in her initial short reply today. How much work has been done in this area? There is little point in letting go any staff who express a wish to retire regardless of their role or the area in which they work. Is there any strategy attached to the proposed...

Health Service Staff. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is not a separate issue. The point is that the executive has too many layers of management and that is why staff numbers must be reduced.

National Health Strategy. (19 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: We met the National Women's Council of Ireland today and were challenged on what we are doing in respect of women's health. It is good that we are redressing the balance this afternoon. Are there specific measures in this or is it a case of encouraging more men to go to the doctor and care for their hearts better? Are there specific screening programmes for men?