Results 141-160 of 202 for feel "party:" . (isset($parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")]) ? $parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")] : "$a[1]") speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Public Health (Tobacco)(Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...establishing a definite suspension period if one is found guilty of various offences under the legislation. While we have had this discussion in respect of amendment No. a1, I must reiterate that I feel very strongly, as do other Members, that the offence of selling cigarettes to children must be the most significant. My amendment does not address this directly but I urge the Minister of...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...do not trust the public health system. Many do so while disagreeing with the concept of the separation of private and public patients and the dual system which incorporates that concept. They feel obliged to seek private cover because they are fearful of the consequences of not doing so. That is not an acceptable system. This conglomerate arrangement is different from what pertains in...

Commissions of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: .... Victims want a form of counselling and support that they consider appropriate. That is important in this case also. Many of the victims have never been able to deal with the complex range of feelings and self-doubt with which they have had to live. An independent person is required in every hospital and health institution in the State, as recommended in the Rebecca O'Malley report....

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...and it is controlled in turn by codes of practice that have been tightened up over the years. Checks and balances are in place, with a Garda Ombudsman giving the public a place they can go if they feel they are not being properly treated. Another one of the suggestions in this legislation is that there should be advocates for the people concerned but, again, I do not see any reference to...

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...side yesterday, including a display the like of which I have never seen by the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy Martin Cullen. He showed a total lack of understanding of how the people feel. Suggestions were made that this side of the House had no policies. Clearly, the Government has not looked at the policies that have come from this side. The Labour Party has put forward...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...the position whereby they do not have any facility for their loved one. As I said earlier, it is very wrong that we force elderly people to worry about how they will be looked after and make them feel they are a burden on their families when the State should be providing for them. I want to get some sense of a standard that will apply across the system, which will not vary, or depend on...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (26 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...The issue of farms is of particular concern to my colleagues in Fine Gael and I share their concern. Coming from the county where "The Field" was written, the Ceann Comhairle understands the deep feelings Irish people have about family farms and continuity. This measure will have major resonance in Ireland. I am not sure the amendments proposed by the Minister of State fully address the...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Report Stage (26 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...removes that right. We fundamentally object to this development. In the absence of their having a right, we must ensure that adequate funding is provided in respect of people who require care. I feel strongly about the amendment and I intend to press it to a vote.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: ...for certain procedures, including diagnostics and colonoscopies. I welcome this very much because the Labour Party wants a one-tier system for everybody. Will this mean that fewer people will feel the need to have private health insurance? There is always the dilemma that if one makes the public system better - and we must make the public system better - people will wonder why they have...

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

Jan O'Sullivan: Some people feel that the UK system has much going for it.

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

Jan O'Sullivan: ...at present, including the levies introduced in the budget. People who are above the income guidelines to qualify for medical cards find it very difficult to pay for private health insurance but feel they must have it because of the difficulty in accessing the public system. Patients are being told every day by general practitioners that if they pay for a treatment privately, they will...

Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (12 May 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will restore the community support for older people grant in view of its proven value in protecting older people in their homes and helping them to feel secure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18926/09]

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to respond to some of the contributions made by those on the Government benches. We are not accusing Ministers or backbenchers of sadism or, as some of them seem to be feeling the pain themselves, masochism. However, we are accusing them of getting their priorities and their economics wrong. Deputy Thomas Byrne indicated that we did not suggest any alternative with regard to where...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (23 Apr 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...was a matter of both priorities and economics. The economics are that if people do not have money to spend at Christmas, then their local economies will not benefit and businesses and others will feel the strain. The hardship that will occur is an extremely serious matter for the families which will be affected by the removal of the bonus. I received an e-mail from the Senior Citizens...

Health Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...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 include cuts to the home help service and cuts in respect of acute hospital beds, as reported in a newspaper today? If...

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick. That is true and I have no problem with it. However, that is only a tiny minority of patients who use the hospital services in the mid-west. People feel very strongly, and I agree with them, that hospitals the size of Nenagh, Ennis or St. John's have much to contribute to people with more common conditions, who need surgical procedures...

Health Bill 2008: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...limits for the recently announced means test for the over-70s [medical] card. To use the unamended gross income figure alone (a gross income we pensioners do not receive) would be very unjust, I feel. The substantial tax portion of that gross figure is Government income, Government property, over which we have no choice — it is no longer the income of the pensioner. He goes on to...

Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...in the very high-income bracket. We are talking about people who will genuinely struggle and for whom the peace of mind of having the medical card was a great bonus and the loss of which they will feel greatly. I question taking medical cards from people who already have them. I question the legal issues of taking a medical card that somebody has as of right. In many cases those cards...

Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...to perhaps €10,000 or a small amount of money in terms of cash flow. However, €500 billion is guaranteed to the banks. Despite this, there does not seem to be any way in which the Government feels it can tell the banks to do something. My colleague, Deputy Rabbitte, referred to the fact that the banks are being extremely prudent now when they were anything but prudent in the recent...

Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...cervical screening programme and on the cancer control programme? Did the Minister try to find the money somewhere else? What would the Minister say to a parent who cannot afford the fee but who feels his or her child should have the vaccination? Would she suggest that he or she would borrow the money to have it done? Does the Minister question the figures shown on page 38 of the HIQA...