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Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is certainly a significant currency in relation to those comments and the report I read. I take it that the Minister is withdrawing his remark.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Minister contacted the reporter or newspaper concerned?

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Minister tried to correct the record?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding changes in the adoption law in relation to declaration extensions (details supplied); the measures she will take to address this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4610/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Minister to answer the questions put to him.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Please answer the question.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Minister to outline to the House the points of contact he had with the Ministers for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Environment, Community and Local Government prior to their announcements.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Please answer the question.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How many other hospitals have been allocated specific funding by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform?

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What engagement did the Ministers for the Environment, Community and Local Government and Public Expenditure and Reform have with the Minister prior to making their announcements in early June 2011, prior to HSE board meeting on 9 June? Did the Minister indicate to them that he would ensure the projects would be fast-tracked or that he would see to it or was it just a case of "wink and say...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is clear that the upgrading of emergency departments in Wexford and Kilkenny is necessary and welcome. The issue is that they were fast-tracked ahead of other necessary projects by the Minister, Deputy James Reilly, at the behest of his Cabinet colleagues Deputy Brendan Howlin and Deputy Phil Hogan. That is the information with which we have been provided through a freedom of information...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 13 November 2012, stating that backdating the home-makers scheme to 1953 would cost the Exchequer in the region of €160 million and 1973, an estimated €150 million, if this is an annual cost; and the number of people that would be effected by the introduction of such a change. [4071/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Working Holiday Visas (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons here who took up working holiday visas in 2012 under the agreements with Argentina, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and the USA, by country; and the allocation of visas here in respect of each of these countries for 2013. [4219/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received an appeal against the decision to disallow the student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; if so, when he expects a decision to be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4404/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details, year on year, of the compensation funding stream from the National Lottery, to those charities who had their own scratch card fund raising in situ and whose returns were negatively impacted by the introduction of the coterie of National Lottery products; if he will provide the above requested detail by individual...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on inter-country adoption arrangements between Ireland and Vietnam; the way this programme will be administered into the future; if funding is guaranteed for the mediation agency Helping Hands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4438/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the reason bilateral cochlear implants are not funded in this State; if he will acknowledge the significant benefits of this procedure in comparison to unilateral implants; if he will address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4439/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of non-consultant hospital doctors in tabular form by grade, gender and by Health Service Executive Region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3860/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive an appointment with the child development team of the Health Service Executive; the plans in place to ensure that timely diagnoses are made for children with Asperger's Syndrome; if priority will be given to this case in view of the circumstances involved; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Study into Ward Staffing Levels: Discussion with INMO (24 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to the shifts described that suggested to those of us who heard the interviews that they were outside the law. Is Mr. Doran aware of this?