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Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 286: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the length of time in which there was no manager at Gleann Alainn special care unit, County Cork, in 2011. [40639/11]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 287: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if each special care unit has a full complement of multi-disciplinary teams on site, that is, psychiatrists, educational and behavioural psychologists, speech and language therapists including for the social use of language, and sensory integration therapists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40640/11]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 288: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the markers used to determine that a High Court order can safely be rescinded in respect of a child in a special care unit. [40641/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 359: To ask the Minister for Health if he has an estimate for the number of acute hospital inpatient beds that will be closed as a result of the cuts to the health budget in 2012. [40755/11]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (15 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 360: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons admitted to long-term care in private nursing homes, Health Service Executive and voluntary units in the past five years; the sum in charges due to the HSE arising from this number; the amount paid and the amount outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40756/11]

Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will be very brief.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government has already reversed changes in the budget book on entitlements for young disabled people. Will the Tánaiste indicate that the measures that have just been highlighted in relation to disabled drivers will also be reversed? Many disabled drivers have electric wheelchairs and require two litre vehicles to gain access because other vehicles will not sustain collapsible,...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The proposed measure will not work. Many of the individuals in question will be severely financially disadvantaged. On this last sitting day before Christmas, I appeal to the Government, in the spirit of Christmas and reflecting on what it has already done in respect of the entitlement of young disabled people, to withdraw this lousy measure which is affecting a raft of people and the Irish...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Ceann Comhairle has been very harsh.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is very harsh.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Perhaps the Ceann Comhairle could choose better examples.

National Service Plan 2012 (11 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Health Service Executive draft service plan for 2012; if he has approved all or part of it; the process for assessment of its proposals and approval or rejection thereof; if the plan will be put before Dáil Éireann for debate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1360/12]

National Service Plan 2012 (11 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister did not indicate when he intends to sign off on the plan. He indicated it would be laid before both Houses but he did not confirm, as my question sought, that it would come before the House for debate, and there is a stark difference. Does the Minister not accept that no matter what service plan he signs off on, the fact of the matter is that we will face significantly reduced...

National Service Plan 2012 (11 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is a jointly worked out plan that is presented annually after substantial consultation between the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive, HSE, at the appropriate level.

National Service Plan 2012 (11 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will conclude with these two points. In the review of the service plan as presented to the Minister in Christmas week, will he ensure that a process of restoration of now-closed hospital beds across the acute hospital network will be a part of the plan in 2012? Will the Minister take appropriate steps to remove the recruitment embargo to ensure that we will not face an ever deepening...

National Service Plan 2012 (11 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is auspicious.

National Service Plan 2012 (11 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We accept the difficulties and that there will be real challenges in terms of delivering the level of service people need, but in terms of the service plan and given the 2,000 hospital beds that are already closed in the public hospital system and the signalled closure of 62 beds in Tallaght Hospital last week, 31 of which are in a single ward, does the Minister intend to include in the...

HSE Senior Management Remuneration (11 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Health if the number of senior managers in the Health Service Executive receiving salaries of more than €100,000 per annum will be reduced as part of the changes in management and administration of the HSE he announced recently after Cabinet approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1361/12]

HSE Senior Management Remuneration (11 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sure the 110 senior managers will heave a sigh of relief that at least the Minister is not signalling that their salaries will be cut any time soon. Why did the Minister wait until the Dáil went into recess to announce this so-called package of reforms? Why was it not done it in the previous weeks when we had the opportunity to discuss it here in the Dáil Chamber? He has not given...

HSE Senior Management Remuneration (11 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When does the Minister expect to introduce legislation? When will we see the reality of the changes he intends?