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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Investment Bank Establishment (21 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made on the Programme for Government Commitment to establish a Strategic Investment Bank. [14069/13]

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Citizens could be excused for believing this Bill is more accurately named than most legislation which presents in these Houses. The Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill is not about the medical card in one's pocket; it is about the eligibility for health. This is what it comes down to in real terms for real people, citizens throughout the land. The Minister of State,...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly-----

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We know very well what it says about entitlement to the medical card and the care this entails. We must remember it is all about health. The Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly - I do not need to remind Minister of State, Deputy White, of the picture I painted which is absolutely accurate - has come full circle, from IMO opponent of universality for over 70s, to IMO beneficiary of it,...

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When will the second consultant neurologist, promised nine months ago, be appointed to Sligo General Hospital? Also, as promised by the Minister prior to the general election in 2011, when will mammography services at Sligo General Hospital be restored?

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When will a consultant neurologist be appointed to Sligo General Hospital?

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That was a very helpful Question Time session.

Other Questions: Hospital Acquired Infections (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How many new isolation beds have been introduced in hospitals in the past two years to address the issue of hospital-based infections? For several years an issue of great concern to many of us here has been the failure of hospital authorities to advise either patients or their families that they had contracted MRSA or other hospital-based infections. Can the Minister assure the House that...

Other Questions: Hospital Acquired Infections (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not just CF, of course.

Other Questions: Hospital Acquired Infections (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Minister to answer the question about notifying patients and their families, which is very important.

Other Questions: Hospital Acquired Infections (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not wish to cause any aggravation but I wish to have my view put on record. There are 91 questions in the names of Fine Gael Deputies. I would judge eight of those questions to have been written by their respective authors, the named Deputies, but 83 of them are definitely manufactured by a single hand, each of them seeking information on measures that have been taken. I do not deny...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In a previous reply to a parliamentary question on current national targets for ambulance response times, the Minister indicated that the targets were being abandoned and replaced with new criteria. Could we have an update on what is happening in that regard and the process being used? Does the Minister accept that with the loss of critical services at some of our smaller hospital sites, it...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Since the millennium year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This issue has not been addressed in the two years since the coalition came to power. The entire focus on the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant scheme has only come to pass again because it is out of sync with the equality legislation. No action has taken place over that two year period and there is no point in hiding behind the failures of the previous Administration....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What should have happened for this sector of people with disabilities is that an alternative should have been devised and the scheme should have been extended to accommodate this if, at whatever point, the commencement of this consideration got under way. As the Minister of State can be no less aware of the extent of the hurt and pain this has caused throughout the State, I again ask and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is known that the Department of Health - I will leave it as being that Department, as distinct from the two successive Governments - was aware since 2008 that these particular schemes were not in line with the Equal Status Acts. The aforementioned schemes have been akimbo since the millennium year of 2000. What has the Minister of State discovered the Department of Health to have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to cease the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant schemes until such time as an alternative scheme or schemes are put in place that is both compliant with equality legislation and provides at least equivalent support to all individuals qualifying under the said two schemes; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in detail a breakdown of the further 55 public nursing home bed closures scheduled in 2013 in the Dublin/north east Health Service Executive region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13766/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Bed Numbers (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if capital works to increase bed capacity will be undertaken to compensate for the further 22 bed closures signalled for St Mary's Hospital, Castleblayney, County Monaghan, in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13767/13]