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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Transport Service (26 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the process employed by the Health Service Executive for allocating private transport contracts, including patient transport contracts, in the Roscommon area; if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount spent on these services in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the contractors employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50630/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (26 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 677. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process for acquiring a taxi licence for Dublin Airport; the specific criteria that apply; the number of such licences that have been newly allocated in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50404/13]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have been promised Santa Claus's arrival for many years, but he has failed to pop up. It must be something to do with my age.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the Minister is Santa Claus, nothing will surprise me any more. Here we are waiting on Santa Claus's White Paper. Perhaps we will have a white Christmas, too. A market based private health insurance system is not the route to real and necessary reform of the health service. I will repeat that message ad nauseam in the hope the Minister and his colleagues will listen to my argument....

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Bill is a follow on from the Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2012, a very important piece of legislation which significantly updated the regulatory regime for the health insurance sector in the State. The 2012 Act introduced a permanent risk equalisation scheme from 1 January 2013. Risk equalisation makes possible the scheme of community rating, which ensures all consumers are charged...

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I commend the Minister's work and congratulate her on the successful passage of the establishing legislation for the new child and family agency. The Bill has been a long time in gestation and, having gone through this House, it will now go to the Seanad. This is a very important, if not historic - an often abused term - development in the context of the State's role vis-à-vis the care...

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I ask a brief question to the Minister about my amendment?

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In doing so my intention is not to be controversial or to contravene Standing Orders. I refer to the appropriateness of ruling out of order the amendment in respect of after-care for children in State care. Now, almost at the conclusion of Report Stage, I take the opportunity to say I would have withdrawn my amendment if it had been allowed to stand, because I understand the Minister has...

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support the broad thrust of Deputy Robert Troy’s amendment. If constructing it myself, I might have chosen the phrase “at least annually”, which would probably better reflect the Deputy’s intent and the supportive arguments presented by Deputy Charlie McConalogue. That said, we must recognise that “from time to time” might not provide for the...

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 20:In page 42, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:"(7) A service provider shall operate in compliance with section 9 where applicable.”.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 21:In page 43, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“(11) A service provider shall operate in compliance with section 9 where applicable.”.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not oppose either of these two amendments but I welcome the Minister's reason for them, which is to provide greater clarity. I wish she had employed the same approach in the many amendments that Opposition Deputies have provided for exactly the same reason of providing greater clarity. I will not oppose the amendments.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 24:In page 43, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following:“(9) A service provider shall operate in compliance with section 9 where applicable.”.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am indicating acceptance of the Minister's amendment. As the Minister might say, it offers greater clarity on the matter.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support Deputy McConalogue's case on behalf of his colleague, Deputy Troy. This is in the context of the supervision of early years services for children. The arguments presented for amendments Nos. 27 and 28, dealing with registration, are appropriate and I urge the Minister's acceptance.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a well trodden path back onto my feet to say that it is entirely reasonable to expect it would be understood. Affirming the adherence to compliance with section 9, which deals with the best interests of the child, is what we seek with this series of amendments. It should be properly affirmed in the arrangements with service providers that provision of services by statutory bodies, the...

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A few months ago, we would have said that matters concerning children that have happened since that time were inconceivable. We could hardly have expected that a child would be taken from its family because of the colour of its hair or the colour of its eyes. It was inconceivable. I only instance those sad occurrences and I could go on and on about other matters. It is because the...

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will be pressing amendment No. 17. I take the view that it is better to be clear and assertive in regard to specific matters - in this instance, the functions of the agency. However, I will not move amendment No. 18. I should have altered it before resubmitting it on Report Stage because the Minister's points were also made on Committee Stage.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 19:In page 41, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:“(16) A service provider shall operate in compliance with section 9 where applicable.”.This is a straightforward amendment that deals with the arrangements for service providers. The Minister will probably respond that it is always understood and expected, but it is good to be specific. The...

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 16:In page 34, line 34, after "to" to insert "the Board of".On the power of the Minister to give direction to the agency, the Bill states, "Notwithstanding sections 41 and 44 and directions issued under those sections, the Minister may give an additional direction in writing to the Agency for any purpose relating to this Act and concerning—", and it goes on with...