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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I bet that the Minister loved using that statistic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Perhaps the delegation is not in a position to go further than the over-70s and the income threshold. Where else will the reduction of 40,000 cards have an impact?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome our guests. The service plan invites such a broad set of responses and covers such a vast area that I will try to focus in on a few issues and seek clarification on them. We have noted the signalled cut of €721 million to the budget for 2013 and the composite figure of €3.3 billion in cuts since 2008. I note that in the presentation the witnesses indicated a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to reduce the cost of generic drugs in view of reports that the Health Service Executive pays up to 24 times more than the National Health Service for some generic drugs; if he will outline a timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12260/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (7 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation regarding the provision of home help hours in the Health Service Executive Dublin North East area; if the technical adjustment will mean 400,000 hours will be lost in this region; if he will reassure service users that their service will remain in place and those who have lost hours in the past 12 months will have them...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail plans for service change at Navan Hospital, County Meath, for the full year 2013; the services that will be lost and gained; the staff changes expected for the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12262/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Trusts (7 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will details plans for hospital groups for all hospitals in the Health Service Executive Dublin North East area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12263/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Equality Tribunal Cases (6 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to establish a non-judicial independent authority competent to deal with cases of discrimination in the provision of goods and services. [11553/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (6 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce comprehensive legislation on domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11554/13]

Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I conclude on this point?

Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It states, quite rightly in Sinn Féin's belief, that the "competing insurers" model should not be adopted before all the options have been evaluated in terms of equity, quality, access to services and value for money. As I understand my time has concluded-----

Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I take a minute?

Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Deputy McLellan. It is good to have friends in the House. At present we have decreasing numbers of people with health insurance, rising premiums for those who have, more pressure on the public health system from those coming off insurance and the persistence of the two-tier public-private system with the struggling public system subsidising the private system. Sinn Féin has...

Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendment No. 2 in my name reads:To delete all words after "calls on the Government to" and substitute the following:"- in the interim, ensure the proper working of the system of risk equalisation to support the community rating principle, entailing the transfer of compensation from insurers who carry lighter risk burdens to those who carry heavier risk burdens, preventing unregulated market...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I repeat my query to Ms McGuinness about July. I heard what Professor McGovern stated. Is there sufficient confidence that there will be a full complement of NCHDs? It would be a temporary solution at any time, but here we are, year on year, looking to it to fill the gap. We will deal with the bigger issue on another day. Today we merely want certainty that there will be sufficient in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Did Ms McGuinness say 68 hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could I hear it again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would we not all agree that that is absolutely unacceptable? Surely that is not a target.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join in the welcome to all the representatives of the HSE. This is the second part of a two-part meeting. The opening session heard very strong representations from representatives of the non-consultant hospital doctors. Some 18 months after the last time we met them in October 2011, what they had to record here before the committee today is hugely worrying. It is at least two years or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to turn the Chairman's comment around - no harm to the doctors - that this was the most competent presentation I have heard here in a long time and I thank the witnesses for that.