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Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (30 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 543. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 502 of 5 March 2013, when Health Service Executive policy that persons who have both an LTI card and a medical card should use their medical card to access medicines came into effect; his views on whether this leaves those patient at a financial disadvantage compared to those on the LTI scheme only; the measures he is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (30 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 544. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who hold both an LTI card and a full medical card; and the number who hold both an LTI card and a general practitioner only medical card. [19933/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (30 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 545. To ask the Minister for Health if it is now policy to refuse LTI cards to newly diagnosed diabetes sufferers who already have medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19934/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to secure a base for the Order of Malta branch in Kells, County Meath, in view of its important role in the delivery of health services and supports in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20151/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (30 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 573. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on the range of mental health services available for adults, adolescents and children in the Cavan Monaghan constituency and across the Dublin north east region; if he will outline his plans for further developments already signed off on but yet to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20159/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (30 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 577. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that unmarked ambulance and emergency vehicles are in use in the Kildare area; if these include high powered vehicles; if he will detail the date of purchase and cost of same; if it is policy that workers are allowed take these vehicles home; if this practice has ever left any area short of vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (30 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 578. To ask the Minister for Health the vehicle maintenance protocol for emergency vehicles in the Kildare area; if it is the case that there are two qualified mechanics employed by the Health Service Executive in the eastern region yet when vehicles are scheduled for routine maintenance they have to go off the road to a main garage for repairs at extra expense to the taxpayer; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (30 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 579. To ask the Minister for Health the level of mileage at which ambulances are at the end of their life; the process for ensuring that that is the case; the number of vehicles in the Kildare area which have surpassed this mileage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20278/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I concur with Deputy Billy Kelleher. On my question about the current complement of those practising, Professor Hickey has indicated that it is in the order of 20 whole-time equivalents. What is the current complement across the board of kidney and all other relevant specialties and what figure does he believe it should be? On the concpet of presumed consent, all of the views expressed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I joint with the Chairman and other colleagues in welcoming each of the contributors. Like so much in life and death, this is not a straightforward issue by any measure. Dr. O'Rourke talked about the one-page system. It must be acknowledged that, irrespective of the different views on presumption or signing up, everybody is sincerely working towards the objective of improved donor...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (25 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been cut off from receiving domiciliary care allowance; the criteria that changed that meant they were no longer eligible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19531/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (25 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for domiciliary care allowance and carer's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19652/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 229. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 979 of 16 January 2013, when a response will issue from the Health Service Executive [19638/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (25 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 231. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 27 March 2013, when a response will issue from the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19650/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (25 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to increase bus services to a town (details supplied) in County Meath; if he will outline detail of same; his views that the current service is unsatisfactory in view of the increase in population in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19648/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (25 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to increase bus services to a town (details supplied) in County Meath; if he will outline detail of same; his views that the current service is unsatisfactory in view of the increase in population in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19649/13]

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 4:In page 14, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "(3) The Board shall, in determining an application under subsection (2), have regard to the desirability with respect to efficacy and safety of refusing to add medicinal product in the anti-epileptic drug class, used in the treatment of persons with epilepsy for the purpose of preventing seizures, to the...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On Second Stage, other Members and I confirmed our welcome of the intent of this legislation. This welcome did not need to be repeated in our contributions at the outset of Report Stage. However, the concerns we expressed on Committee Stage and now again on Report Stage are real and substantive. They are not our concerns in the first instance; they are the concerns of those who will be...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support the three amendments in the grouping. It is arguable that others could be grouped with them. I note the single distinction between amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, and amendments Nos. 4 and 18 is that the latter are particular to anti-epilepsy drugs while the former are non-specific about interchangeable and non-interchangeable medicines. While it has been pointed out that the...

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013: Motion (24 Apr 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move: "That the order of the Dáil of 17 April be discharged and that the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, pursuant to Standing Orders 82A and 118."