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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I know the Chairman will be looking forward to it, but we will see. The Department of Health briefing that was circulated in advance of today's engagement with the witnesses also makes the point that this would be done as early as possible within the Government's terms of office yet we have no indication that the Government's lauded and much vaunted core objective in health has any prospect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join in the welcome to Mr. Joyce and Mr. Sloyan. We in Sinn Féin want universal health care based on equal access for all and on the basis of need. We want that to be State-provided, funded by fair and general taxation and free at the point of delivery. That will require an increased contribution from the highest earners, as we have articulated time after time. We do not favour the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Numbers (25 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the anticipated number of social worker posts that will deal exclusively with children and family issues under the aegis of the Child and Family Support Agency, following its establishment as of 1 January 2013; the number currently in service with the Children and Families Service of the Health Service Executive; if and when a recruitment...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Detention Centres (24 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children under 18 years who were residing within St. Patrick’s Institution, Dublin on 20 September, 2012. [40711/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the functions that are being devolved from central government to local authorities (details supplied). [46075/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Crime Prevention (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to help combat racism and racist anti-social behaviour on local authority housing estates and complexes. [46199/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Grants (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will be awarded the non-adjacent rate of the higher education grant, as their home is 47 kilometres from their place of study, rather than the adjacent rate previously indicated. [45879/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the contact she has had with lone parents groups regarding the inter-departmental subgroup on school-age care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46096/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the contact she has had with lone parents groups regarding the inter-departmental subgroup on school-age care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46094/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 17 July 2012, when the details of the best possible model for enhancing the provision of school-age childcare and accompanying proposals will be submitted to Government; when she intends to publish same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46098/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a report on her recent international trip to Scandinavia to explore a working childcare model and potential application of same here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46097/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and when a decision will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45858/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding inter-country adoptions with Ethiopia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46494/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Expenditure (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the full drugs bill for the Health Service Executive for 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; if he will provide a breakdown of same by scheme, by patent status and branded generic status [45703/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the full details of the deal negotiated with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association as announced on 15 October 2012; if he will provide details for the cost savings calculations or estimates and for a breakdown of same by scheme and year on year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45704/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the scope and detail of the Health Service Executive community drug schemes drugs price review; when and the way this review will be undertaken; the methods to be employed and the expected cost savings to be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45706/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Task Force on Prescribing and Dispensing (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the remit of the National Task Force on Prescribing and Dispensing; the membership; the method of recruitment or appointment and remuneration of same; and the accountability and monitoring measures of same [45705/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when funding to ensure that residential services for persons with disabilities are independently inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority will be made available; his plans to progress same; the date on which the inspections regime will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45881/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the measures taken to ensure the Time to Move On report is implemented in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45882/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants' Remuneration (23 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the accountability and oversight mechanism for the full implementation of consultants contracts, in relation to the public private mix of their work and the location of same; the frequency of inspection and reporting; if he is satisfied that consultants at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin and elsewhere are fulfilling their public service...