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Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 14:In page 30, lines 16 to 18, to delete all words from and including "to" where it secondly occurs in line 16 down to and including "who" in line 18.I am not pressing either amendment as they were contingent on the position on amendment No. 6. If they were validly for consideration, I deeply regret that amendment No. 15 was disallowed, allegedly because it might involve...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support Deputy Billy Kelleher in this argument. Like him, I am absolutely incredulous of the provision which debars a pharmacist from practising because he or she has fallen on difficult economic times. It seems to be an absolutely inappropriate measure. It is only compounding whatever difficulties he or she has to contend with. We have to recognise and realise that it in no way...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support Deputy Naughten's proposal and believe the amendment is eminently sensible. I would like to offer one additional observation and, by doing so, suggest it does not discount the case. In the instance Deputy Naughten has cited of people on up to 15 or more tablets per day, invariably, and particularly in the case of older people, they are not looking at 15 separate vessels of...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I hear what the Minister is saying and it is a clearer response than what I was picking up in the first instance. That may be as much my fault, or mine alone, but what I read from what the Minister is saying is that it might be a good idea, and then there is a "but". We need to recognise that this Bill is about encouraging and facilitating the greatest possible generic substitution and all...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While the Minister responded to all the amendments, the hook on which I hang my case is contained in the broad thrust of amendment No. 6. I am not asking that the order of the amendments be changed. However, will the Minister indicate his Department's view of the argument that it would aid the objective of increased generic substitution if general practitioners were to prescribe on the...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 19, to delete lines 1 to 21. My position on this group of amendments is contingent on how we deal with amendment No. 6. The Minister of State might appreciate that I am in a little dilemma because we must discuss amendment No. 5 and others, yet the fate of amendment No. 6 determines whether I press for the deletion of Chapter 2 and the first paragraph of...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Nobody is proposing to delete any part of subsection (7), as cited by the Minister of State.

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: However, it does not cite the special case in relation to anti-epileptic drugs, AEDs. Amendment No. 4 does not seek to create exemptions; rather it seeks that due regard be had to the exceptional situation applying to people with epilepsy. There is no point in trumpeting language used elsewhere in the legislation that is not particular to the set of drugs about which we are speaking,...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We represent a broad range of political opinions and I know that our concerns are shared by members of the Government parties. It is tragic that this is not being taken on board by the Minister of State and those with whom he has engaged in preparation for the taking of these amendments. Amendment No. 4 does not seek to alter the intent of the legislation but carefully and with full...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I had hoped that with the passage of a couple of weeks since we last debated the issue on Report Stage the Minister of State might take a different view. I regret, however, that he remains solid in his opposition to the proposed amendments from me and my colleagues in this regard. I draw to his attention what amendment No. 4 states. It proposes to insert the phrase, "The Board shall, in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Appointments (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has proceeded to seek expressions of interest from interested persons or nominations of specific persons who would be prepared to serve as members of the board of the yet to be established Child and Family Agency; the number of board positions she plans for the new agency; if a person (details supplied) has taken up her position as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a Student Universal Support Ireland grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21952/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abduction (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the Hague Convention on child abduction has been invoked in this State in each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21600/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abduction (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the Hague Convention on child abduction has been invoked in this State in each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21600/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Owners Management Companies (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 167. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a practice (details supplied) in County Meath; if he will outline the rights of these residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21779/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Owners Management Companies (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 168. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases taken before the courts of residents vs management companies in the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21780/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance White Paper (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 234. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the process for drafting the White Paper on Universal Health Insurance including membership of teams and the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21783/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 235. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the money follows the patient pilot project and plans to further extend this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21784/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Smaller Hospitals Framework (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 238. To ask the Minister for Health when the small hospitals framework report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21872/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Smaller Hospitals Framework (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 239. To ask the Minister for Health when the Higgins report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21873/13]