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Written Answers — Primary Care Strategy: Primary Care Strategy (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all existing primary care teams are fully staffed. [6925/08]

Written Answers — Primary Care Strategy: Primary Care Strategy (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if ongoing and in-depth public consultations with the relevant local communities were held in each area before the roll-out of the primary care teams; if opportunities for the participation of communities in the planning and development stages were created in accordance with commitments given under Action 19 of the Primary Care...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason that the findings of the Health Service Executive working group on cystic fibrosis have not been published. [6927/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the critical situation in St. Brigid's Psychiatric Hospital, Ballinasloe which is operating on a skeleton staff as a result of Health Service Executive cutbacks; if she will intervene immediately to address the unacceptable level of staffing, especially in the psychiatric intensive care unit and the...

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This week the department of child and adolescent psychiatry in the Health Service Executive north-east area wrote to all general practitioners covering the Cavan-Monaghan area, my constituency, advising that they will accept only urgent or emergency referrals as of Monday of this week. This is not pending but is in effect. We have all lauded the Government's position on A Vision for Change...

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am bringing it to the point where it will be. This morning we were briefed on eating disorders. There are many issues that seriously affect young people and adolescents. Will the Tánaiste indicate that the Government will increase its support for the mental health services to put money into the delivery on the commitments made——

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----and the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill which is on the Government's table of promised legislation? Will he indicate the minor amendments this represents in terms of the Mental Health Act and when it will be brought forward? These are major and serious concerns.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The services have been suspended as of Monday for adolescents and children.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste should address this issue please.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Tánaiste not address this issue? He cannot kick it to touch.

Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am pleased to have the opportunity to address the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill. The one point on which everyone in this House can agree is the necessity for a comprehensive reform of Ireland's outdated and inadequate asylum and immigration legislation. An opportunity had presented itself at last to address the shortcomings and failures of the current system and to develop...

Pharmacy Regulations. (21 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have sought this debate because the Health Service Executive, on the direction of the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, intends to proceed with the unilateral imposition of new scales of payment for community pharmacists from 1 March next. This will pour petrol on the flames of the prolonged dispute between the HSE and the Irish Pharmaceutical Union. Tens of thousands of...

Dáil Reform. (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the process for implementation of the Houses of the Oireachtas reform elements of An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7915/08]

Dáil Reform. (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, to the hot seat for today and probably this week. In regard to the informal engagements to which he referred, will he outline the exact make-up of those engagements and exactly who is attending? Will he also explain why the Oireachtas reform section of the programme for Government amounts to a scant, short and even vague reference? It...

Dáil Reform. (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Why has the Sinn Féin Whip not been included in the engagement the Minister has just explained is confined to Fianna Fáil, representing the Government, with the Fine Gael and Labour parties? Why is the only other Opposition party in the House excluded from these preliminary discussions? We have a view to offer on essential reform and experience here, over a decade in my case. Will the...

Dáil Reform. (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can the Ceann Comhairle show me the Standing Order that excludes parties with fewer than seven Members from an informal engagement, as the Chief Whip described it? Is the Ceann Comhairle suggesting that there is a precedent or a Standing Order that precludes engagement with a party of fewer than seven? I would guess that there is a precedent for engagement with parties of fewer than seven...

Dáil Reform. (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He should have been involved from the outset.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the damaging effect on patient care of cutbacks imposed by the HSE, including the announcement by the HSE North East that it will only accept emergency child psychiatric referrals from GPs in Cavan and Monaghan for at least the next four months, and the need for the Minister for...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Committee Stage of the Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007 is due to be taken in the Select Committee on Health and Children this week. There has been a dearth of health legislation since the general election in May 2007. Does the legislation committee of Government have the power to fast-track legislation where there is a clear and obvious need? Does it have the power to...

Written Answers — Commission on Taxation: Commission on Taxation (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason he failed to ensure a balanced membership of the Commission on Taxation to ensure that the interest of low and middle income earners was adequately represented within the membership of the Commission. [7692/08]