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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Chairman not put the proposition on Vote 38 at this point?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no end to the questions we could raise under these subheads but I am conscious of the time constraints. I wish to focus on subhead B3. If others wish to specify the subheads they wish to discuss, that might help to expedite the discussion. The Chairman can go through the list of subheads and we could have something to say on all of them but we are understanding of the time...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This provides for a 20% reduction in the provision of moneys to tackle the drugs crisis in our society. The 5% reduction relates to both the Estimate and the outturn and it equates to €1.524 million. It is in no way reflective of the required response to the ever increasing threat from drug addiction in society demonstrating itself not only in the larger population centres, but...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 5% is one twentieth.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I apologise if I said that wrongly.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The background to these revised Estimates is the austerity cuts regime, which has resulted in reductions in health spending year on year. A sum of €781 million was cut in this year's budget, more than €750 million in budget 2012 and an additional €130 million in August 2012, and all that followed a cut of €1 billion in 2011. Along with other colleagues, I have...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Some exchanges or contributions back Deputy Healy-Rae referred to terminations on grounds of disability. There is no proposal before us, in these or any other amendments, that would allow for a termination on such grounds. The issue is viability - the prospect of viable life beyond the womb. The issue of fatal foetal abnormalities cries out for address as, I believe, all of us have...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way job numbers, job losses and job creation figures correlated with exports over the past ten years. [33502/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the effect of the return to recession on the jobs numbers and job creation numbers. [33503/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans for the emergency department at St. Colmcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, County Dublin; if he will confirm that it is now the case that this department will remain open for an extended period; if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33849/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the activation measures introduced by her, combined with changes to one parent family payment in the past two years, are having the opposite effect intended. [33257/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 81. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age who have received an offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education since the youth guarantee scheme was announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33256/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the decision to reduce the permanent teaching staff at a school (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33287/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the special needs assistance provision for a person (details provided) in County Leitrim; if he will ensure that the full-time 1:1 ratio is provided for the coming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33307/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations Closures (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with five Government-owned buildings in County Monaghan recently identified as being long-term vacant, if details will be provided as to the location of each of these buildings; the plans being considered for their future use; if the opinion of Monaghan County Council has been sought as to the way these potentially valuable resources...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prosecution of Sexual Offences (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 423. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality how he intends to address the issue of access to therapy notes relating to children who have been sexually abused and the use of information contained therein in the context of criminal prosecutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32597/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the role his Department and the Health Service Executive have in ensuring appropriate corporate governance for contracted service providers; if his attention has been drawn to an internal audit at a company (details supplied) in County Dublin which receives substantial HSE funds; if his attention has been further drawn to the findings of that audit; his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 498. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive an appointment in Beaumont Hospital. [33033/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 499. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33049/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 514. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he is making to address the shortage of acute child psychiatric services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32595/13]