Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I thank the Taoiseach for his responses to both sets of questions. Is it again the case that the Cabinet sub-committee on health, which also takes in responsibility for children, has met on 13 occasions since June 2007? Is the Taoiseach in a position to indicate the frequency of those meetings over the course of recent months as report after report unfolded regarding the very serious ill-treatment of young people placed by the State in institutional care over many decades? Will the Taoiseach indicate how recently that committee has met? Has it directly addressed the recommendations in the Monageer and Ryan reports? What further address of the recommendations will the Cabinet sub-committee undertake over the period ahead? Does the committee also address health policy? If this is the case, will it revisit the absolutely discredited private for profit co-location policy that the Minster for Health and Children - who is by the Taoiseach's side - has pressed over her tenure in office in recent years?

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