Results 15,001-15,020 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: There are many administrators in there already.

Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: On those phone calls which have been made to elderly people, I understand they are mainly for clarification purposes. Have there been any complaints regarding people feeling intimidated about phone calls received?

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Are there plans for a national diabetes screening programme?

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: My time is being eaten into. I asked the second question and I want the time for it to start when the reply to this question finishes.

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Chair called the Minister on Question No. 2.

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I do not blame the Chair.

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has planned for the effect of the transfer of private patients from public hospitals where co-location is to proceed; the cost implications for the running of those hospitals; the staffing implications particularly where specialist clinical staff will be required in both hospitals; the way it is proposed that public...

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am confused. Is the Minister suggesting there will be two identical hospitals with, for example, two clinical teams from cardiology to orthopaedics on both sides? For example, in order to cover for someone needing appendectomy in the middle of the night, will two full teams be needed, one in each of the two hospitals? If someone breaks a hip, will full teams be needed in both hospitals...

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Consultants will now be able to sign up to three different kinds of contracts. In addition, some consultants can opt to work entirely for private hospitals. How will it work? For example, how will it work in practice if a cardiologist signs up for one particular contract without the proper mix of public and private? Will we need another cardiologist in the private or the public hospital?

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: There is grave concern among clinicians as to how this will work.

Hospital Services. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I hear a very different story.

Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I congratulate the Minister of State on his new position. I support Deputy Ó Caoláin's comments regarding the need to establish this group. I am also concerned about the Taoiseach's claim that one year of supervision was somehow holding up the provision of services to people who need speech and language therapy when that is in fact the international norm for ensuring new therapists are...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: There has already been some discussion on the proposals for a prison at Thornton Hall. I want to raise the proposal to move the Central Mental Hospital to the Thornton Hall site and the widespread opposition to that from a variety of organisations. Economist, Mr. Jim Power has made a cost-neutral proposal to leave the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum by selling off part of the site. This...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I knew the Leas-Cheann Comhairle would say that so I ask this in the context of the mental health Bill, which is on the long-term list. Could the Government bring that Bill forward so we can debate this issue before it becomes a fait accompli?

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will be there be any consideration of Mr. Power's proposals on the Central Mental Hospital? We need a debate on it.

Schools Building Projects. (4 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Parents in Kilfinane, County Limerick will withdraw their children from school on Friday. They took this decision out of despair at the Government's failure to keep its promise. They are entitled to be told why the construction of their school has not been given the go ahead for this summer. No one has been able to explain why. Is it because they do not have enough political clout? The...

Schools Building Projects. (4 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is pronounced "Kilfennan". The Minister should not listen to RTE.

Schools Building Projects. (4 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: Surely outside toilets are a priority.

Schools Building Projects. (4 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I cannot understand why outside toilets are not a top priority.

Schools Building Projects. (4 Jun 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister.