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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Missing Children (21 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a detailed update on the roll out of the 116000 missing children hotline; when this hotline will be fully operational; the publicity strategy in place to publicise this facility; if she will give a commitment to future funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23785/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if he has decided to abandon Phase Two of the long promised roll-out of free general practitioner care, that is, those covered by the high tech drug scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24371/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 690. To ask the Minister for Health the acute medicine programme defined model applicable to Monaghan Hospital; the additional services that he anticipates will be located at the Monaghan hospital site under the terms of the now published framework for the development of small hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24372/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Projects (21 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 708. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that communities such as Carrickmacross, County Monaghan are eager that their towns develop public swimming pools with ancillary facilities; if he will launch a new local authority swimming pool programme; when he will announce details of same; the bodies that will be in a position to apply...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join in welcoming each of our witnesses. I thank Mr. Saunders, chairman of the Mental Health Commission, for the points offered by the commission in relation to definition. Each of the other points offered were highlighted on Friday and earlier today. As such, they are confirmatory in terms of points already shared across each of the different disciplines. My first question is to Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understand. I beg your pardon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome our guests here this afternoon. It is very important to say at the outset that despite the scepticism of some of the voices this afternoon in respect of the worth, value or legitimacy, even, of this set of hearings, whatever the respective views of Government, as an opposition voice I am accepting the bona fides of it, and it is hugely important that this is understood. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join in the welcome to each of the panellists this morning. There is a number of shared common points in each of the presentations but I have picked on one to tease out - because that is our job, to get a clearer understanding - and that is the role of the general practitioner. It is very unusual and interesting that across the four psychiatrists before us this morning they have each,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join with the Chairman in welcoming each of our guests this morning. I wish to put a question specifically to Dr. McCarthy. In relation to the five obligations of the State as set out in the expert group report two of them are referred to as follows: to establish criteria or procedures in legislation or otherwise for measuring or determining the risk to her life, and the other, to provide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank each of the speakers and apologise to Dr. Burke that I was not back in time to hear his oral presentation, but I thank him for his written submission. I am not directing my questions at anyone in particular, but I am anxious to learn from the witnesses if there are particular differences in their collective experiences because of their largely rural, non-Dublin city locations, as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Chairman in welcoming our three guests. In relation to Dr. Peter Boylan's contribution, it should not strike one as strange that I would not have known that intensive care units did not exist in any of the three maternity hospitals in Dublin but it has come as a shock or certainly a surprise. It poses the question of whether these entities, as they are currently resourced and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank each of the witnesses. Unfortunately, the time allowed will not allow us to question each of them and elaborate but their contributions are very valuable. I ask Professor McAuliffe to answer a question on the risk of loss of life due to physical illness. She talked about two medical practitioners, one of whom shall be an obstetrician or gynaecologist who must be employed at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The requirement is that one of the psychiatrists would be attached to an institution where the procedure is carried out. What if the situation presented where that person, the only person then available, was a conscientious objector? It is not beyond the bounds of possibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I referenced what I believe to be a need to revisit the construction of that. I drew attention to the words "an", "a" and "that. I think it creates a spaghetti junction of possibilities and needs to be much more precise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In dealing with the heads of the Bill it is most unfortunate that the Minister has not remained for questions on these matters. I wish to ask a number of questions nonetheless. As regards the five obligations of the State, as laid out in the expert group's report, could Dr. Holohan give us his view as to whether this draft legislation fulfils these obligations? I am speaking of each of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (16 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recently released UNCTAD report entitled The Palestinian Economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring Annexation, Isolation and Disintegration; which found that Israeli segregation policies have ensured that 82% of Palestinian children in east Jerusalem are living in poverty; and if he has...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any recent meetings with the British Government to discuss the continued imprisonment of persons (details supplied); and if so will he provide details of these meetings. [23236/13]

Good Friday Agreement: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I took my seat in the Dáil as the sole Sinn Féin Deputy in 1997. The peace process had broken down at that time. It had been undermined by the refusal of the British Conservative Government of the day to enter inclusive negotiations, respecting all electoral mandates and without preconditions. Through hard work, persistence and consistent engagement by political leaders, not...