Results 11,261-11,280 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
- Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place an emergency plan for hospitals to accommodate the predictable surge in activity that occurs every winter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32717/11]
- Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: During the course of the general election last February, the Minister stated that his party would put in place an emergency plan to accommodate the predictable surge in activity that occurs every winter. According to the figures for Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda, 842 patients spent time on trolleys in that hospital in September. The figure for the previous September was 331...
- Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister referred to continuing monitoring but has he a plan? We are well into November and there is already ample evidence that the situation is worse now than it was 12 months ago. We need a plan that includes a means of addressing the moratorium on front line service providers and a programme for lifting the closure orders on beds in a number of hospital sites around this state. Can...
- Health Service Administration (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My point is to focus on whether the aforementioned advisers are advisers to the Minister. I refer to the leaked letter, to which the Minister has just referred, from the Secretary General of the Department of Health to Mr. Cathal Magee, the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive, HSE. That letter stated it was regular practice to accept "a particular suggestion from an...
- Health Service Administration (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is precisely what it states and this appears to be most casual.
- Health Service Administration (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can the Minister assure Members that he is, as he suggested he would be when he took up office, both accountable and responsible for the health services?
- Health Service Administration (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Members will be obliged to judge the Minister on his record.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not a chance.
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place a programme to reopen closed hospital beds between now and April 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32716/11]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 330: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has given approval to Monaghan County Council and Respond Housing Association to progress their proposals for a group home at Drummond Otra, Carrickmacross which will cater for women with physical and sensory disabilities; if the housing association can submit the planning application in this...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 472: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reasons for the failure to fill all existing child protection social worker posts. [32905/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 473: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that optimal staff to case ratios are currently in place in the child protection system. [32906/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 474: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Health Service Executive is satisfied that optimal staff is to case ratios are currently in place in the child protection system. [32907/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the minimum ratio of filled social worker posts is to cases that she is prepared to accept and allow. [32908/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 476: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the minimum ratio of filled social worker posts to cases that the head of child protection services is prepared to accept and allow. [32909/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 477: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of community care child protection, fostering team, team leaders and principal social worker posts in the Health Service Executive; the number currently filled; the number of vacancies as of January 2011; and the number of vacancies since the number of children in care passed 6,000 [32910/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 478: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of community care child protection, fostering team, team leaders and principal social workers each year for the past five years on long-term sick leave and on maternity leave. [32911/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 479: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of short-term sick leave taken by Health Service Executive community care child protection, fostering team, team leaders and principal social workers in the past five years. [32912/11]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 480: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the amount of illness leave taken by social workers has increased along with the increase in the number of children in care; and if so, the proportion of same. [32913/11]
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Nov 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 508: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 28 September 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [32894/11]