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Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Deputy has just done that. He should practice what he preaches.

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Accurately.

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Equally, there is no excuse for closing Roscommon.

Written Answers — Tourism Policy: Tourism Policy (6 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the tourism renewal implementation group; the remit of this group; the progress made to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18959/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health if the eye unit in Limerick Regional Hospital is due to close on 11 July 2011; and if so the location at which a person (details supplied) will have their appointment [19036/11]

Order of Business (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given the seriousness of the situation presenting as of next Monday and the importance of facilitating legislation to allow the Minister to proceed with the necessary recruitment of non-consultant hospital doctors, we will not object to the passage of the Bill today and the manner in which it has been presented. Sinn Féin Deputies will support its passage today.

Order of Business (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the course of the past two days, several Government Deputies, while defending the decision concerning the accident and emergency department at Roscommon hospital, referred to the Government's so-called health reform agenda. The Minister for Health has promised free GP care for all within the lifetime of this Government. Is legislation already being prepared to facilitate the introduction...

Order of Business (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Tánaiste indicate if any work is underway on legislation to provide universal health insurance, which is a cornerstone of the current Government's health approach? Is progress being made on that and when might we see legislation to facilitate the introduction of this long-vaunted promise?

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Bill should not be necessary, as the Minister and I both agree. It arises from the inappropriate way in which medical staffing, training and practice are configured in the State. It has been known and widely recognised for years that the hospital system is totally over-reliant on junior doctors. Successive Governments have failed to address this over-reliance and inappropriate...

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I urge the Minister to take on board the arguments of the INMO, to give them serious consideration and to view them in a positive light. I want to take this opportunity to flesh out our view on the role of small and medium-sized public hospitals. We reject the policy of centralisation of public hospitals. Centralisation provides a fig leaf for cutting public hospital services. We believe...

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, before section 2, to insert the following new section: 2.—The Minister for Health, upon the commencement of this Act, shall cause to be undertaken a comprehensive monitoring and review of the implementation of the Act as it affects patient care at hospitals, which review shall be concluded after four months when its findings shall be presented and...

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I certainly would not want to suggest, or subscribe to a view, that the doctors being recruited are in any way deficient. I want to make it very clear that I would want to be supportive of every effort to give confidence to patients presenting at our hospital sites throughout the time of their respective service. I note the Minister's undertaking, a word he used on two or three occasions in...

Higher Education Grants (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review and honour the pledge he made in February 2011, and reverse the €500 increase in the student contribution fee. [19166/11]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the redeployment of primary school teachers to gaelscoileanna, even if their standard of Irish may not be adequate to teach in an Irish speaking school. [19167/11]

Written Answers — School Inspections: School Inspections (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process by which he can address the failure of a board of management to implement changes recommended by a whole school evaluation inspector. [19468/11]

Written Answers — School Inspections: School Inspections (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process by which a complaint can be made to him that a board of management has failed to implement changes recommended by a whole school evaluation inspector. [19469/11]

Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will advise on the progress made towards the publication of the Government's proposed wording of the Children's Rights Referendum; and if she will commit to publication before this years end and a referendum in the first quarter of 2012. [20072/11]

Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome this first Question Time on children and children's rights. I commend the Minister on taking this first major step. At last week's Joint Committee on Health and Children, the Minister committed to introducing wording along the lines of that contained in the final report of the Joint Committee on the Constitution from February 2010. The period between February 2010 and February...

Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister indicated an autumn deadline. Will this be the deadline for agreement on the Government's wording? Will we see publication of the facilitating legislation in the autumn? Will the Minister dare speculate if we will see the referendum in the first quarter of 2012?

Children's Rights (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC, in September 1990 and ratified it two years later in September 1992. The first report was presented in 1997, the second in 2006 and the third was due in April 2009. While I note what the Minister has said, I hope the establishment of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs will not see these long and...