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Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 285: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the deputy manager at Gleann Alainn special care unit, County Cork, is a permanent or acting deputy manager; and if the unit has permanent full-time senior child-care workers. [40621/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 286: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the length of time in which there was no manager at Gleann Alainn special care unit, County Cork, in 2011. [40639/11]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 287: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if each special care unit has a full complement of multi-disciplinary teams on site, that is, psychiatrists, educational and behavioural psychologists, speech and language therapists including for the social use of language, and sensory integration therapists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40640/11]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 288: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the markers used to determine that a High Court order can safely be rescinded in respect of a child in a special care unit. [40641/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 359: To ask the Minister for Health if he has an estimate for the number of acute hospital inpatient beds that will be closed as a result of the cuts to the health budget in 2012. [40755/11]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 360: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons admitted to long-term care in private nursing homes, Health Service Executive and voluntary units in the past five years; the sum in charges due to the HSE arising from this number; the amount paid and the amount outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40756/11]

Children in Care (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the recommendations set out in the most recent Health Information Quality Authority report of the Gleann Álainn Special Care Unit, County Cork; if she will publish an implementation plan for these recommendations; and the timeframe during which each of these recommendations will be fulfilled....

Children in Care (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As the two questions are being taken together, I presume the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is giving the additional time, including for the Minister.

Children in Care (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister's response was important and I hope we are not missing out on some of the detail. I very much welcome the fact HIQA carried out this unannounced inspection in October last. I lay emphasis on the word "unannounced" because that is critical if we are to have the degree of oversight that is necessary to establish best standards and best practice in all situations. I was...

Children in Care (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In my question, I asked particularly if the Minister will publish an implementation plan. That is critically important. It is not only about the issues highlighted by HIQA and that there have been repeat abscondments. There are also reports that some of the girls in the facility fear others because of bullying and intimidation. The capacity to contend with difficult circumstances that...

Children in Care (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I ask another question on this important matter?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept the Minister of State's explanation on these substituting Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for Minister for Finance. While I was opposed to the final passage of the Nurses and Midwives Bill because of the inadequacy of the Bill's provisions for the profession of midwifery, I see no reason to object to these changes that are technical and reflective of the new departmental...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to make a general remark. This is the last Stage in the passage of this Bill. It is important to offer additional clarification on the position my colleague Senator Cullinane took in the Seanad. The Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, will be familiar with his arguments and with those I pursued on Committee and Report Stages in this House. The concerns of many midwives have not been...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept the amendments.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I fully support the amendment. Not wishing to be mischievous, I ask why Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas or MEPs are not also included. Why only members of local authorities? I fully support the inclusion of members of local authorities. It would be fair and reasonable for the Minister of State to tell us once more why Members of these Houses or MEPs could not also be accommodated...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I agree in regard to local authority members. I was wondering whether the Minister of State had further information on Members of the Oireachtas or MEPs in this regard. It was not that I was putting the case for the inclusion of Oireachtas Members and MEPs, I was just teasing out the question. I fully support the change to allow members of the board to be members of local authorities also.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Kelleher raised the issue of timeframes. Can further information be provided regarding how the board will a selection from its employees? What is the methodology for the selection process? Can the Minister of State elaborate on what she has already said?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect to the Minister of State's officials, we need absolute clarity on this amendment. Either the Minister of State was correct when she stated that another member of the board would fill the position or it will be, as the amendment states, an employee of the board. These are very different roles. Perhaps the Minister of State can clarify the matter in light of the conflicting...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I agree with the Minister of State and I do not intend to speak further on the matter because Deputy Kelleher outlined his argument very clearly. However, if we can determine when a vacant seat must be filled, we can certainly set out when a position of this importance should be filled in the event of a vacancy that is not temporary in nature. The amendment clearly indicates this is not a...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On a point of order, is it procedurally the position of the Chair - in this case, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle - to make the proposition?