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There might even be population and conservation issues with regard to where the fish are taken from, but there are certainly issues with regard to their welfare and what happens to them at the end. Are they just allowed to die of starvation or are they culled once the salmon population has been harvested?
We know from successive annual reports that more than half our people who die have a history of overdosing, so when people survive a near-fatal overdose, we really need services to kick in quickly.
These include: damages awarded by a civil court; out of court settlements or other payments such as ex gratia payments; compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority ‘CICA’; and advance payment scheme payments. 9 Based on past and projected mortality rates. 10 Figures represent the numbers of potential next of kin applicants in relation to survivors of child abuse who have or who are expected to have died from 2004-2026 to take account of those who may die...
Others have said, “Make me comfortable. I need to die and I want to die at home.” There can be differences between what family members and kin want and what the individual wants.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 March 2010
It is not possible, from centrally held information, to identify people who die as a result of preventable hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE), the collective name for Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism.
It is right that we target expenditure on training and retraining, particularly of the young unemployed, but all we get from the Opposition is the mantra of college cuts.I say this to the Opposition: any country that has an economy that does not seek and manage change—that does not look to produce efficiencies—will die. It will die. I say to the two main Opposition parties that their antediluvian pursuit and competitive animosities in throwing money at problems or making cuts unwittingly is not the solution that will create a dynamic economy.Their Rodgers and Hammerstein show of—Interruption.