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Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister did not. That is the point.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: She engaged with approximately 1% of the stakeholders, the consultant doctors who work in the hospitals.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: What about all the other stakeholders? What about the patients and the public? We live in a democracy. What about the GPs? The Minister is very selective in who she considers to be stakeholders.

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is there any reason patients from Kilbaha or the upper end of north Tipperary should have to come to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick? Is it not possible, for example, for the consultants in Limerick to supervise the accident and emergency departments in Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's and be responsible for what goes on in them without having to centralise everything in Limerick?...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I see no reason it should not also happen at night. There is a major lack of trust about what the Minister plans to do. I would like to quote from the report: The overriding principle will be that no services will be withdrawn from the current general hospitals prior to the build-up of new, alternative services, i.e. that the Regional Hospital will be resourced, developed and working to...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are again being given a cart-before-the-horse situation where services will be withdrawn from hospitals that provide them with the promise that services will be in place in the Mid-West Regional Hospital. I will again quote from the HSE west report given to representatives last week: 2009 will be a very challenging year in providing the existing level of services with significantly...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: When will that unit be provided?

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: What about GPs?

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Does the Minister believe they only act in their own self interest as well?

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is a case of everybody being wrong, except the Minister.

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (5 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 52: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied that a time of nine to ten months from the date of a disputes application being received by the Private Residential Tenancies Board to its being heard by an adjudicator meets the aim set under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to be resolved cheaply and speedily; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (5 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person in receipt of a course participant training allowance from FÁS who is also in receipt of a survivors' pension from the Department of Social and Family Affairs is also entitled to a training bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4061/09]

Ministerial Responsibilities. (5 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 58: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the names and the period of appointment of people whose appointment he has approved to be members of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the Private Residential Tenancies Board who are not members of the board of the PRTB; the fees he has consented should be paid to members of the DRC; and if he will make a...

Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Last March, the EU decided that so-called party drugs, including BZP, should be controlled. The EU gave member states a year to do so. That 12-month period expires next month, so are there proposals to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act or to add these drugs to the controlled list? While they are known as party drugs, they can be dangerous and have serious effects. The time is nearly up.

Written Answers — Defence Forces Recruitment: Defence Forces Recruitment (4 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of recruits taken into the Defence Forces throughout 2008, broken down in respect of the Army, Air Corps and Naval Service; the number expected to be recruited during 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3510/09]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Strength: Defence Forces Strength (4 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of personnel in the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps; the way these compare to the establishment figures in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3509/09]

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy Timmins should allow the Minister of State to continue uninterrupted.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Agreed.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy has only 30 seconds left.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is that agreed? Agreed.