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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1007 of 14 September, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [30414/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1006 of 14 September, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [30413/11]

Written Answers — Health Promotion: Health Promotion (19 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 627 of 3 May 2011 and 1019 of 14 September 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [30415/11]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 21 June 2011, when the outstanding information will issue from the Health Service Executive. [30416/11]

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is unquestionably a mortgage crisis and no one can see clearly where or when it will come to an end. It is certain that if it is not addressed comprehensively, effectively and very soon, many more people will be forced into poverty and homelessness. We will see more repossessions of homes and more families forced to make the choice between paying the mortgage and buying food or...

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government need not begin by implementing the Sinn Féin proposals but it should implement what it has committed to in the programme for Government, but we are not getting that. I remind the Minister that he has made the following commitments: to increase mortgage interest relief to 30% for first time buyers from 2004 to 2008; to introduce a two-year moratorium on the repossession of...

Report by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Financial Regulator figures show that 55,763 mortgages were in arrears for more than 90 days at the end of June this year. Some 69,837 residential mortgages are categorised as restructured, including interest-only payment plans and, of these, 30,442 are also in arrears. Some 95,158 residential mortgages are in arrears of more than 90 days or have been restructured. This represents 12%...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (20 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if jobseeker's allowance will be granted to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [30512/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (20 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will receive a date for their operation; and if this will be expedited. [30509/11]

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My amendment concerns the crisis situation in the north east and I support the amendment of my colleague, Deputy Tóibín, calling for an inquiry into the disgraceful overcrowding at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. We are facing into what may be one of the worst ever winters in our health services. If the Fine Gael-Labour Government does not act in accordance with the commitments...

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The programme for Government boasts that this is "the first in the history of the State that is committed to developing a universal, single-tier health service, which guarantees access to medical care based on need, not income". The reality is very different, as many other speakers have outlined here this evening, and is as set out in the Technical Group motion. Every Deputy in this House...

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The situation in the north east-----

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is a disgrace.

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have never yet heard a Minister for Health seek to close down a Deputy outlining the facts of the situation in the health services.

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With all her faults, Deputy Reilly's predecessor never attempted that.

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The INMO has pointed out that 842 patients spent time on trolleys in the emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in September 2011 compared to 331 in the comparable month of the previous year, an increase of 154%. The INMO states that this situation will deteriorate even further in the coming months as the winter period is traditionally worse in emergency departments...

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I conclude with this?

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want a commitment from Fine Gael and Labour that they will not adopt, or even consider, the series of further proposals that are being mooted in regard to a freeze on new medical cards until 2012, the slashing of home-help hours by 600,000 and the removal of 400,000 personal assistant hours. All of these proposals are under consideration and they are a further indication of what some of...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if regulation 30 of SI 299 of 2007, Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007, is the only regulation governing the testing of local exhaust ventilation; his views on whether this regulation is insufficient to protect workers from equipment which might cause exposure to substances that cause...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Oct 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 504: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason disadvantaged area payment has not issued in respect of the year 2010 to a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that payment has issued relating to 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31472/11]