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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Health (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking that there would be no further cuts. Can the Minister give any indication that there will be a reversal of cuts that have already taken place? I take on board the fact that the Minister indicated a comparable saving towards the end of this year concerning his renegotiation with the pharmaceutical sector of some €16 million. The figure of €16.9 million would not...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Health (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I always welcome an opportunity to address the Minister on these matters, which I acknowledge are of mutual concern. However, he must accept that these are bizarre circumstances for us to meet and address these matters. We are meeting within a week of budget day against a backdrop of unprecedented cuts in recent years. I refer in particular to the removal of €1 billion in 2011,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will receive an appointment for a consultation with an orthopaedic surgeon at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53646/12]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tuarastail Rannach (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé tar éis iarraidh ar aon bhall foirne ina Roinn, nó atá i gcomhlacht faoi scáth a Roinne, atá ag saothrú níos mó ná €200,000 sa bhliain mar thuarastal, 15% dá dtuarastal, nó an méid dá dtuarastal bliantúil atá os cionn €200,000,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on a higher education grant application in respect of a a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53381/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Registration of Title (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the turnaround time for the processing of Section 49 applications at the Land Registry; the efforts he is making to minimise this period; if he will expedite the application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53377/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REP scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53376/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he expects to receive the report on hospital groups/networks from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53194/12]

Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Since the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, the issue of abortion has once again become dominant in Irish politics. It is a double tragedy that it should take the death of a young woman to again focus minds on the requirement to protect women and to address the unresolved legal issues but the need for greater legal clarity has been there for a long time. Disgracefully, that need has been...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That was done and dusted on the floor of the Dáil. The Minister will be glad to hear I did not oppose it either.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the White Paper?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I stress the importance of Members of the Houses having full sight and scrutiny over regulations in draft form.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My question is on amendment No. 7. It states non-advanced cover shall be construed in accordance with section 11E(4), but from my reading of this section, and I am always fearful of doing this because somebody may state I have missed something, it does not refer to non-advanced cover. It refers to advanced cover but not to non-advanced cover. It is on page 22 of the Bill. These are...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am a very sad person having gone through all of this as I have and as the Minister can quite obviously note.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was only helping the Minister.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, lines 10 to 12, to delete paragraphs (b) and (c).My reading of this is that the net effect of section 4 as it stands would be to remove the requirement to lay regulations before the Oireachtas in draft form. When we go back to the substantive Act of 1994, as amended in 2001, and we transpose the proposed changes and the impact of the Health Insurance...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Minister suggesting that it will be incorporated in primary legislation?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are dealing with legislation before us. This other so-called primary legislation has not presented. We have no certainty of that position. What we are being asked to do-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What we are being asked to do here is to jettison an existing scrutiny. It is not an issue of appropriateness. Whether the Minister deems it necessary is up to the individual judgment of each and every one of us. My sense of it is that it is a requirement, that it should not be removed from this legislation and that the potential consequences of it are worrying, to put it mildly. I am...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am regretful that the Minister would not accede to this. I do not believe the amendment-----