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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Go raibh maith agat. I welcome the delegation. This has been an exceptionally interesting morning for the committee. The delegation has made one of the most compelling cases that any of us have ever heard. I congratulate each of the five leaders. They have not spoken yet but they have spoken to us in other ways to each and every one of us. Many of us here, myself included, could be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Planning (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the Health Service Executive budget in 2012 on a regional basis and the allocation for 2013 for each HSE region; if he will outline the additional moneys being allocated in each HSE region in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8002/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the communications he had with the Health Service Executive in relation to building projects at Wexford General Hospital and at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter [7447/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail his proposed changes to medical card entitlements and income criteria as outlined in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7446/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7855/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Graduate Medicine Programme Places (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if, due to the increased number of medical school graduates this year, it is anticipated that in July 2013 that there will be a shortage of intern places for both EU and non EU graduates of Irish medical schools; the way he intends to address this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7856/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail funding levels for neurological rehabilitation services in this State for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; if he will outline the principal facilities and services provided there; average waiting times for access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7845/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the number of neurology specialists in this State; their grade and location; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7846/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the number of medical rehabilitation specialists in this State; their grade and location; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7847/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail funding levels for community and hospital neurological services in this State for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; if he will outline the principal facilities and services provided there; the average waiting times for access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7848/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the delays being experienced by his Department in the preparation and publication of the White Paper on Universal Health Insurance, and the preliminary document to the White Paper, promised in Future Health in November 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7857/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for consultation, communication and collaboration on his healthcare reform agenda, including consultation with stakeholders including advocacy groups, indicated in Future Health to take place in quarter four 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7858/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will receive an appointment for Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; the reason the appointment has been cancelled on numerous occasions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7871/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the supports available for sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis; if he will outline treatment regimes available for these patients; if new drugs are coming to market and if they will be made available here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7873/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Asthma Programme (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when the first phase of the national asthma programme will be implemented; the initial actions that will be taken in order to implement the programme; the deadlines for these actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8003/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Asthma Programme (14 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the reason implementation of the national asthma programme was not prioritised in the 2013 Health Service Executive Service Plan in view of the fact that there are 470,000 persons in Ireland with asthma, that more than one person per week dies from asthma and in view of the fact that it is a chronic respiratory disease that is particularly prevalent in children,...

Other Questions: Youth Services (13 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When does the Minister expect the roll-out of the signalled new youth cafés to commence? Will she share with the House the locations of these new initiatives? How many youth cafés will be in situ with the advent of the additional eight indicated? Regarding the area-based approach to the child poverty initiative that she announced as part of the two new strands to deal with child...

Other Questions: Youth Services (13 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the new locations?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (13 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is over three months since the electorate passed the children's referendum, on 10 November last. I would have hoped that by now we would have seen the publication of the necessary amending legislation to give effect to the wishes of the people in the new Article 42A.2.2°, which requires the State to put laws in place allowing for the adoption of any child, regardless of whether the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (13 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The provisional legislation published prior to the referendum was very straightforward. It was within the confines of what I once again put on the record of the House in my first question. Why we cannot proceed to address that three months later concerns me. Regarding the other matters the Minister is hoping to address in tandem with this legislation, what further delay will that cause in...