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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Staff Responsibilities (20 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that the Health Service Executive intends to recruit 35 leadership/motivational coaches for HSE managers (details supplied); if he will outline the purpose, role and terms of contract of same; if he will detail the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57427/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the current provision of therapeutic apheresis services here; the role of the Irish Blood Transfusion Services in the delivery of same; if these services will continue to be provided by the IBTS in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57634/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (20 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that, due to changes in Section 53 and 72 of the Health Act 1970 as amended by the Health (Amendment ) Act 2005, charges may be applied for in-patient services for people with disabilities, and that a maximum weekly charge of €175 applies; if this will be the case at a care facility (details supplied) in County Meath from January 2013;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (20 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Charges for In-Patient Services Amendment Regulations 2011 came into effect; if he will outline the extent of its implementation; the services and facilities to which it applies; if he will provide a breakdown of same by the Health Service Executive region and in tabular form; if its application will be extended in 2013 and details of same; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Charges (20 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to prevent undue financial hardship on patients attending for vital medical treatment, in view of reports from the Irish Cancer Society; the assessment of ability to pay that is conducted and the waivers that apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57695/12]

Other Questions: Ambulance Service (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My attention has been drawn to a report in the Donegal Democrat of Monday, 26 November. This referred to a situation where a distraught mother had to drive her unconscious child to hospital while a paramedic tended to the child in the back seat of the car. If this was an isolated incident, it might not have been raised in this way, but I am told there are other reported instances where...

Other Questions: Symphysiotomy Report (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept the Minister's point that concern at this matter is shared across the board in the Chamber. I acknowledge the commitment of members of both Government parties in regard to the all-party group. Their contribution and their commitment to resolving this issue is unquestioned. I ask the Minister to accept, whatever legal advices might be presented, that there is equal and, arguably,...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When does the Minister of State expect the arrangement he has outlined to take effect? Some generic substitutions are costing between 96% and 98% of the originator medicine, which is a very marginal saving and defeats the purpose of replacement and of whatever savings can be accrued from it. Can the Minister outline the action being taken to give effect to the commitment he has outlined? ...

Other Questions: Medicinal Products (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I recommit to offer every support for the fast-tracking of this Bill which I, of course, support. We should use this opportunity to consider ideas to improve the legislation. That is how we should approach legislation, as opposition voices. If we are not opposed to a measure our amendments are intent on improving it, where possible. We should use the intervening period before the...

Other Questions: Symphysiotomy Report (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister indicated some time early in the new year. On receipt of the report, I presume the Minister will publish it so that we have the opportunity to examine its content. Whatever the final Walsh report contains, there is an onus and responsibility on all political voices to listen to the demands of the victims of what I have always seen as a barbarous procedure, a view the Minister...

Other Questions: Obesity Levels (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Last February, the Minister told the Dáil there would be a voluntary code which would be monitored over a period of time. In the event of non-compliance or if it did not bear fruit, the Minister said he would legislate. Much of the focus in this regard has been on restaurant menus. I believe it should be directed at the foodstuffs we buy in supermarkets and the local convenience store...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In her post-budget speech, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, made a vague claim that there is a commitment on the part of the Government to restore home help hours and home care packages. Questioned by me at a recent meeting of the Committee on Health, the Minister indicated he intended to restore funding in 2013 to the 2012 level. My core objective...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I can only interpret from the Minister's reply that he intends to restore the budget to the funding level that pertained prior to 30 August 2012. One can only presume that while he is not saying this clearly, the cuts announced in the Budget Statement of December 2011 for 2012 will stand. Does the Minister accept that the home help hours and home supports being provided are among the most...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if the approximately 950,000 home help hours cut in 2012 will be fully restored; if all individual recipients of home help support who had hours cut in 2012 will have them restored immediately or early in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57247/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the level of cuts to supports for disability services in 2013; if he will address the funding crisis which is affecting disability services, including day care, residential care, respite and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57002/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the proposed changes to eligibility for the medical card that he plans to make in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57003/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Voluntary Youth Work (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason his Department and Irish Aid terminated the strategic partnership with the National Youth Council of Ireland for the national Youth Development Education Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57184/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Voluntary Youth Work (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way his Department and Irish Aid plan to implement objective three in their Strategic Plan 2007-2015, promoting public engagement for development to engage in a strategic way with voluntary youth work and achieve the results outlined in their recently published Performance Measurement Framework when they have terminated...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Development Education (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount of funding for development education from his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and proposed for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57186/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (19 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the annual State spend on high tech drugs for 2009, 2010, 2011 and that estimated for 2012; the savings delivered in respect of the cost of these medicines over each of the years outlined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57131/12]