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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he approved the €130 million further cuts to the 2012 health budget, including the proposed cuts to personal assistance services for the disabled, the home care cuts and the home help cuts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39655/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to cease the provision of gluten-free products on prescription for medical card patients with coeliac disease; and if he will provide equivalent alternative supports or measures for coeliac patients, in view of the excessive cost of gluten-free products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39656/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to reverse the decision to cease emergency and cardiology services at Nenagh Hospital, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39658/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he has ascertained from the Health Service Executive the reason it was decided to cease emergency and cardiology services at Nenagh Hospital, County Tipperary even though the critical care unit in the Limerick Regional Hospital is not yet fully opened or fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39659/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the total sum spent by the Health Service Executive and his Department in 2011 and to date in 2012 for consultancy services other than medical/clinical consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39660/12]

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Some €1 billion was cut from health spending in 2011 and the Department of Health is referring to an overall reduction of €2 billion up to 2014. This is scary stuff. The Fine Gael-Labour Government puts the diktats of the troika before the old, the sick and people with disabilities in Irish society. There is no other conclusion. Regularly, the Government points to the troika...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Fianna Fáil Party motion is carefully worded because that party agrees with austerity and cannot fully oppose health cuts based on austerity, not to mention the party's own appalling record in office from 1997 to 2011, not least in respect of health.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Fianna Fáil Party had the opportunity to transform our health services, but squandered it just as it squandered so much else that could have made for a better society. It certainly had the time and means to make a difference. I appreciate that the current Government does not, but it none the less has a responsibility. Its members saw it and knew it when they stood in my current...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will park some of what I had prepared to say. There must be a major change not only in health policy, but in the economic strategy being pursued if we are to avoid a meltdown in the public health services. The first step is not just the removal or resignation of the Minister in place, but equally the adoption of a health policy based on fairness, equity and access for all on the basis of...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Sinn Féin Deputies have no confidence in the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, and we deplore the Government’s attacks on our public health services. We roundly reject its fundamentally flawed and inherited health policy. We will be voting accordingly at the end of this debate. Ar dtús, molaim an leasú in ainmneacha na dTeachtaí Shinn Féin....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will reverse his decision to close Lisbrook Direct Provision centre for refugees in Galway City. [39260/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programme (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that adequate capacity is in place to facilitate the rollout of the national cancer screening programme in 2012; that the bowel cancer screening programme is extended to people aged 55 to 74 years; that multi-annual funding is in place to support the programme by the end of 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37146/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when free general practitioner visits will be extended to long term illness card holders; and if he will expedite the measure [38942/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Translation Services (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of translation services by his Department and the agencies operating under his aegis for the years 2010 to 2012 inclusive; if his attention has been drawn to a translation service (details supplied); his opinion on the merits of this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37144/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for colonoscopy examinations in the public health system for the years 2008 to 2012 inclusive; the number of patients waiting for colonoscopies during the same period; if he will provide a breakdown of same per Health Service Executive region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37145/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the reason 22 beds remain closed at a hospital (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the efforts he is making to ensure these beds are re-opened at the earliest opportunity; the date on which they will be re-opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37148/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Availability (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he is making to support the Anna Liffey drug Project in Dublin; his position on supervised injection sites in this State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37686/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will give details of the savings made through the employment of agency staff, both nursing and clerical, as against their Health Service Executive directly employed co-workers, in each of the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; if he will advise of any changes in terms of employment or levels of remuneration that were introduced specific to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Administration (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately reverse the decision to cease support for medical card holders with coeliac disease to obtain gluten-free products on prescription [38943/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the safeguards that are in place to ensure that those contracted by the Health Service Executive to provide residential care and home care are fully compliant with all employment legislation and regulations and that the statutory rights of their employees are fully vindicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38560/12]