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Health Service Staff. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am concluding with this point. The shortage of GPs restricts the time a GP has to engage with a patient and the opportunity he or she has for health promotion. While acknowledging some steps have been taken as the Minister's reply indicated, what further steps are proposed? Will the Minister agree it is alarming the HSE has had to recruit GPs outside of Ireland to meet the current shortfall?

Health Service Staff. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am glad the Minister used the French example. The figures she cited for the North of Ireland and Britain do not reflect the EU average, which stands at one GP per 1,000 people. I would like to ask the Minister about access to medical education. Places are critical in terms of the number of general practitioners we turn out. We also need to examine the issues of affordability. Access to...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In response to an earlier priority question, the Minister referred to an article in a County Louth newspaper, The Argus. She suggested that a representative of Sinn Féin had expressed a particular view on public-only general practice. I have to say she misrepresented the situation.

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In line with Sinn Féin policy, my colleague in County Louth has very clearly indicated that a two-tier approach does not work, and that is wholly in line with the position I have articulated here, time and again. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to clarify that point. Regarding the grouping of questions before the House, the Minister has never given us a breakdown of the...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have it here. It states: "Public only consultant can't admit VHI patients."

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no hypocrisy. The hypocrisy is on the Minister's side-----

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and proves, once again, that co-existence of private and public service provision in the one system does not work.

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It does not work and the Minister has presided over two tiers in the health services all along, without consequence.

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister should stick to the facts.

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister can tell him herself-----

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister circulate the details?

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He is an excellent paediatrician, but what about his management skills?

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Guts are not needed to be a CEO, but specific managerial skills.

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has been asked twice to share the information.

Mental Health Services. (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is important to welcome what the Minister of State has said but to add that it does not arise from a recognition on the part of the Department, Minister, her colleagues or the HSE that the proposition to site at Thornton Hall was wrong in the first instance. It is a quirk of fate. Welcome though it is, it is important to recognise that is the case. Question No. 30 asks the Minister her...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the deadline for the proposed removal of all acute hospital services from Monaghan General Hospital which was last signalled for early summer 2009; if she will heed the final appeals of patients, healthcare workers and the community to prevent this removal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26283/09]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a copy of the most recent review of the adequacy of child and family services from the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26282/09]

Written Answers — Assisted Human Reproduction: Assisted Human Reproduction (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the current legal situation with respect to surrogate parenthood; her plans to introduce legislation in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26645/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make representations to the Health Service Executive in order that hip replacement surgery for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, for which they have been waiting seven months, will be expedited; and if the HSE will provide a wheelchair to them in the meantime. [26745/09]

Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Gilmore has comprehensively covered the issues. It only remains for me to indicate that the Sinn Féin Deputies oppose the imposition of a guillotine in regard to the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009. With the tabling of 18 amendments and the import of what is involved, it requires more time than is being offered. At the same time, it may well be the case that...