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Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 477: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of community care child protection, fostering team, team leaders and principal social worker posts in the Health Service Executive; the number currently filled; the number of vacancies as of January 2011; and the number of vacancies since the number of children in care passed 6,000 [32910/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 478: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of community care child protection, fostering team, team leaders and principal social workers each year for the past five years on long-term sick leave and on maternity leave. [32911/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 479: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of short-term sick leave taken by Health Service Executive community care child protection, fostering team, team leaders and principal social workers in the past five years. [32912/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 480: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the amount of illness leave taken by social workers has increased along with the increase in the number of children in care; and if so, the proportion of same. [32913/11]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 508: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 28 September 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [32894/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 522: To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that funding for the Coolmine therapeutic community, Dublin, will be retained in 2012 in view of the fact that it is the only mother and child residential treatment centre here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32942/11]

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister referred to continuing monitoring but has he a plan? We are well into November and there is already ample evidence that the situation is worse now than it was 12 months ago. We need a plan that includes a means of addressing the moratorium on front line service providers and a programme for lifting the closure orders on beds in a number of hospital sites around this state. Can...

Health Service Administration (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My point is to focus on whether the aforementioned advisers are advisers to the Minister. I refer to the leaked letter, to which the Minister has just referred, from the Secretary General of the Department of Health to Mr. Cathal Magee, the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive, HSE. That letter stated it was regular practice to accept "a particular suggestion from an...

Health Service Administration (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is precisely what it states and this appears to be most casual.

Health Service Administration (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can the Minister assure Members that he is, as he suggested he would be when he took up office, both accountable and responsible for the health services?

Health Service Administration (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Members will be obliged to judge the Minister on his record.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not a chance.

Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place a programme to restore services to hospitals in the north east and, with immediate effect, maintain and sustain the minor injury unit at Monaghan General Hospital as a 9 am to 9 pm, seven days a week service, proceed with the medical assessment unit at the same hospital site and restore the rapid response vehicle to the...

Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Unfortunately, I cannot say "Go raibh maith agat" to the Minister because, not for the first time when addressing the people of County Monaghan, he has referred to yet another framework document. That phrase will have a serious echo for those familiar with the history of Monaghan General Hospital. The Minister referred to the minor injuries unit offering services between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,...

Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is the same question I put to the Minister: will he restore-----

Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Briefly-----

Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----there was nothing of an overly specialist nature in the services at the minor injuries unit. It was an essential component part of what remained.

Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was never envisaged that there would be further cuts.

Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: All the Minister is doing is complicating an impossible situation in Cavan and Drogheda by further displacement of patients.

Health Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I acknowledge that the Minister has long had an interest in this area. I refer specifically to 12 February 2008 when his party brought forward a progressive motion calling for enhanced co-operation between the Department of Education and Skills and the then Department of Health and Children to ensure children with special needs would receive adequate support in all aspects of their lives...