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Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rates Increases (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT that has been collected at the higher rate for each of the past five years; if he will provide on a county basis the amount of VAT that has been collected at the higher rate for 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42714/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cavan has had their payments cut off; the way these payments can be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42716/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the role local authorities will play in Irish Water and the management of water services; the way capital investment will be prioritised; if it will be linked to regional and local development plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42707/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the priority that will be given to larger water schemes under the new Irish Water; what will happen to rural and smaller water schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42708/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress being made to date with the approval of the upgrade of a water programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42709/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a fund will be available within Irish Water for rural water schemes; if funding will be maintained for rural water schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42710/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way group water schemes will link in with the new Irish Water body in view of the relationships that these schemes have with local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42711/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been sent back to central funds by local authorities due to the inability of these authorities to match funding on a county basis for each of the past five years providing the most recent figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42712/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the efforts she is making to facilitate the estimated 50,000 adopted persons in this State who have been refused access to their personal medical and other records. [43459/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a programme of supports for established small private creche providers, similar to the community childcare subvention programme that targets the community not for profit childcare services, in view of the considerable investment made and the serious hit that these providers have taken because they cannot access CCS...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will outline her policy in relation to open and closed adoptions; if he will detail the relevant guidelines and protocols which advise authorities in this regard; the effect the upcoming Children's Referendum and associated Adoption Bill will have on these protocols; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43458/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the public dental services available for children; the public dental services available to children in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42715/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Location (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a decision will be made on the location of the new National Children's Hospital; the process and criteria that is being used to decide on the location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42984/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increased costs to former cancer patients of in vitro fertilisation treatment; if he will investigate this anomaly and take measures to rectify same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43007/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the current Health Service Executive budget overrun and consequent cuts in essential services, his views on whether energy costs across the health sector, estimated by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, at €80 million a year at least, should be reduced by up to 20% on an urgent basis; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if a nutritional supplement (details supplied) is still covered under the General Medical Services; if there are circumstances in which this supplement is still covered and if a person in Dublin 8 is eligible; if he will provide a complete list of drugs covered via PCRS currently and those which have been removed in the past 12 months; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the most recent changes to the stock of occupational therapy home care aids and appliances in the Health Service Executive Dublin North East area; if he will detail the procurement process which was followed in advance of the most recent changes of suppliers; if he is satisfied that this process compiled with all the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty that community midwives, excluding home birth midwives, have in accessing professional indemnity insurance; the way he intends to address this matter in view of the Programme for Government commitment to primary and community care; if he has considered the potential role of the State Claims Agency clinical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the proposals to outsource laundry services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; the stage this proposed change is at and the process of pre-change analysis; if he will investigate this situation with a view to maintaining this service within the public health service and retaining a dedicated and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the expected cost savings from the introduction of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 and the negotiations with regards the cost of on-patent drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43485/12]