Results 421-440 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Including coming to listen to Deputy Mitchell.

Written Answers — Recycling Policy: Recycling Policy (9 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 105: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on the work being carried out by the market development group to identify market opportunities for recyclables; and the expected date of publication of the market development programme. [3812/05]

Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (9 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 82: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has considered the recommendations of the NESC report on housing; and if it is his intention to incorporate the recommendations in an updated housing strategy. [3811/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the report on the death in July 2003 of Róisín Ruddle at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin and the implications for the hospital and the Department of Health and Children and the Government's approach to the nursing shortage.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I raised issues relating to the death of Róisín Ruddle earlier under Standing Order 31. I join other Deputies in appealing to the Tánaiste, who is responsible for this area as Minister for Health and Children, to consider the report into the death of Róisín Ruddle, which will be published today, and subsequently to take a proactive approach to the critical needs within the acute hospital...

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was not a matter of taking down the mast.

Accident and Emergency Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is proposed to proceed with the configuration of accident and emergency services in the State's hospitals as proposed in the Hanly report; if so, the way in which it will be put into effect in each region; the timetable for such implementation; the status of the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Accident and Emergency Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is the status of the Hanly report? The Minister's response repeats remarks she made last Monday to the effect that the Hanly report is a significant piece of work. She did not, however, make clear, then or now, what parts of the report will be implemented. It seems the Government would like to give the impression that the implementation group has been wound up as a result of public...

Accident and Emergency Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We all accept that we cannot have every service and speciality on each of our hospital sites. However, does the Tánaiste agree that the Hanly model represents an over-centralisation and will spell a diminution of services at hospital sites throughout the country? I speak with some experience of this. The Monaghan experience is the template that is being and will be applied if the outworking...

Accident and Emergency Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a sad example.

Accident and Emergency Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept that.

Accident and Emergency Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is only at a particular level.

Accident and Emergency Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What of mental services?

Accident and Emergency Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I hope the Tánaiste can.

Mental Health Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was an unfortunate remark——

Nursing Home Subventions. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am aware of a case of an elderly lady who lived in a small terraced house, a former council home, valued at €150,000, which is not a lot of money in today's terms. Her family live in other parts of the country and outside the country and that home was where they came when they visited. The mother, who was in a nursing home, could not get a subvention and her children had to sell the home...

Hospital Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister indicated that 50 patients had been referred under the national treatment purchase fund to the new private clinic in Galway. What stage are we at regarding the introduction of the radiation oncology unit in Galway? Has that yet been established and, if not, when will it happen? Have we got our priorities right? Is that not what is committed to, even in the limited form of the...

Hospital Services. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The NTPF is surely not the answer in all cases.

Services for People with Disabilities. (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Gabhaim buíochas don Cheann Comhairle as an deis chun na ceiste seo a phlé. In an adjournment debate on 29 January 2003 I called upon the Minister for Health and Children to act as a matter of urgency to address the severe staffing shortage at St. Mary's residential care facility at Drumcar, County Louth, and to ensure that the residents at the centre had all the personnel and other...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she proposes to take on foot of the Health Research Board findings of wide variations in the use of electroconvulsive therapy between the health board areas; if she has satisfied herself that adequate procedures for its use are in place; if she will undertake a thorough review of the use of this highly...