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Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the Competition Act?

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The primary reason this issue is being dealt with in this format — statements — is that the overwhelming majority of Government Deputies would not want a division on it today. That is regrettable because from working with many of them and speaking to several of them privately I know they hold the same views as voices that will be heard from the Opposition benches in the course of this...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: However, this is not the only part of our primary care sector in severe difficulty. I already referred to the virtual collapse of the free dental scheme, while much more serious is the rapidly emerging shortage of GPs. We have an aging general population and an aging GP population, with older doctors retiring and not enough younger doctors coming on stream to replace them. There are major...

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will include Deputy Flynn as well.

Pharmaceutical Pricing: Statements (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I urge them to act in unison and to demand facilitation of a negotiated settlement, before tens of thousands of patients, many of them elderly and infirm, are subject to further worry and distress.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: At the outset, I join Deputies Kenny and Gilmore in an expression of sympathy to the families of the two Polish men who were so cowardly and brutally slain in this city this week. I wish to refer to promised health legislation, that is, Bills in respect of which heads have yet to be approved. I note that the Minister for Health and Children is sitting next to the Tánaiste and Members spoke...

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It hardly compares——

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——to the health legislation situation. Can the Tánaiste advise the House whether the Minister sitting beside him is responsible for the dentists Bill, the eligibility for health and personal social services Bill, the health (corporate bodies) Bill, the health information Bill, the human tissue Bill, the mental health (amendment) Bill, the pharmacy (No. 2) Bill and the public health...

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is it not the case that the former Tánaiste and current Minister for Health and Children is barely treading water in her brief?

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Kenny referred to motions that were put before the Joint Committee on Health and Children by both Labour and Fine Gael, but that is only part of the story. A motion had been put before the committee by the chairman of the committee, Deputy John Moloney, which had the indication of support of all opinions in the committee. I commend Deputy Moloney's preparation of that motion because...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are at the 11th hour in respect of the difficulties presenting between the HSE and the Irish Pharmaceutical Union. In previous responses, the Minister for Health and Children indicated that she would consult the Attorney General to find——

Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My question relates to legislation. She stated that she would consult with the Attorney General to find what measures could be introduced to overcome the interpretations placed on the Competition Act 2002.

Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can the Tánaiste advise the House on whether the Attorney General has given his advice——

Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——and whether promised legislation is part of the address of the ongoing difficulties that affect not only the IPU, but the Irish Dental Association and others?

Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will legislation be introduced and has the Attorney General reported back to the Minister on his deliberations on this matter? These questions are in order and I would appreciate if——

Tourism Industry. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I have raised this issue on a number of occasions and I require clarification. Are the figures for overseas visitors based solely on the numbers entering this jurisdiction through airports and seaports with no distinction drawn between actual visitors and Irish people returning home? This was the case and if it is still the case, it means the...

Tourism Industry. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister of State agree a far more scientific approach to determining these figures must be found? It is as reasonable to suggest the travel numbers from this island to the neighbouring island may have reduced, that more Irish people go to Europe on holidays and their return from destinations such as France, Spain and Portugal could explain the 15% increase. I do not mean to...

Tourism Industry. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With the Ceann Comhairle's indulgence I will conclude with the point that it is important that we have statistical accuracy across the board. That is the correlation I am drawing with the statistics of the Central Statistics Office. I would appreciate the Minister of State's comments on this. Is it possible that our census statistics and report are as inaccurate as the figures he has...

Census of Population. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed that the last census does not give an accurate record of the number of immigrants in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29232/07]

Census of Population. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The reason I brought up this point during Question No. 1 was that I thought the grouping was Questions Nos. 1 to 5. I apologise. I was not pre-empting these questions. Due to the noise during the exit after Leaders' Questions I did not hear the grouping of the questions and I made the assumption that these questions would be lumped together. I thank the Minister for his response but——