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Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (13 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 419: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 36 of 3 November 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [39985/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (13 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 420: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 477 of 8 November 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [39986/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (13 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 421: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 478 to 480 of 8 November 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [39987/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (13 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 425: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos 72 and 77 of 8 November 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [39988/11]

Written Answers — HIV Infection: HIV Infection (13 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 483: To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement a national HIV-AIDS awareness campaign. [39793/11]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (13 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 487: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that there are no plans to either further reduce the capacity or close a unit for the elderly (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39870/11]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (13 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 488: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that there are no plans to reduce the capacity, let alone close, St. Mary's Hospital in Castleblayney County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39872/11]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 501: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a permanent programme of independent inspections of all residential care centres for children and adults with disabilities, both intellectual and physical; if this is a responsibility he intends extending to the Health Information and Quality Authority; if existing legislation provides for such oversight of existing and...

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (13 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 502: To ask the Minister for Health the action he intends taking to address the situation presenting at Cork University Hospital and other hospital sites in the south and south east, at which management are refusing to pay non-consultant hospital doctors for unrostered overtime; if he will ensure that all overdue payments are made immediately and that, in line with his stated view...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (14 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will request the social welfare appeals office to reschedule, as speedily as possible, a date for oral hearing in respect of the disability allowance appeal of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan. [40083/11]

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (14 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the drug pradaxa and its prescription for medical card patients presenting with atrial fibrillation; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive has informed patients that they must pay for this drug; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that pradaxa is clinically safer for...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept the Minister of State's explanation on these substituting Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for Minister for Finance. While I was opposed to the final passage of the Nurses and Midwives Bill because of the inadequacy of the Bill's provisions for the profession of midwifery, I see no reason to object to these changes that are technical and reflective of the new departmental...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to make a general remark. This is the last Stage in the passage of this Bill. It is important to offer additional clarification on the position my colleague Senator Cullinane took in the Seanad. The Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, will be familiar with his arguments and with those I pursued on Committee and Report Stages in this House. The concerns of many midwives have not been...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept the amendments.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I fully support the amendment. Not wishing to be mischievous, I ask why Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas or MEPs are not also included. Why only members of local authorities? I fully support the inclusion of members of local authorities. It would be fair and reasonable for the Minister of State to tell us once more why Members of these Houses or MEPs could not also be accommodated...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I agree in regard to local authority members. I was wondering whether the Minister of State had further information on Members of the Oireachtas or MEPs in this regard. It was not that I was putting the case for the inclusion of Oireachtas Members and MEPs, I was just teasing out the question. I fully support the change to allow members of the board to be members of local authorities also.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Kelleher raised the issue of timeframes. Can further information be provided regarding how the board will a selection from its employees? What is the methodology for the selection process? Can the Minister of State elaborate on what she has already said?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect to the Minister of State's officials, we need absolute clarity on this amendment. Either the Minister of State was correct when she stated that another member of the board would fill the position or it will be, as the amendment states, an employee of the board. These are very different roles. Perhaps the Minister of State can clarify the matter in light of the conflicting...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I agree with the Minister of State and I do not intend to speak further on the matter because Deputy Kelleher outlined his argument very clearly. However, if we can determine when a vacant seat must be filled, we can certainly set out when a position of this importance should be filled in the event of a vacancy that is not temporary in nature. The amendment clearly indicates this is not a...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On a point of order, is it procedurally the position of the Chair - in this case, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle - to make the proposition?