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Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the Fine Gael record?

Health Service Staff (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the final number of persons who will have retired from the public health services between September 2011 and the end of February 2012 under the current retirement scheme; if he will outline the dynamic contingency plan to deal with the loss of such large numbers of staff to which he has referred; and if he will make a statement...

Health Service Staff (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have to hand a copy of the Dublin North East Service Plan. I find no more dynamic contingency planning within this than I did within the national service plan, which was introduced a couple of weeks ago. It is important to deal with this because it is the only specific information we have. I expect it will be replicated in the other three regions of the HSE. It actually demonstrates...

Health Service Staff (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Far from it.

Health Service Staff (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister's reply did not address the questions I posed. Government Deputies from the north east will be shocked to learn for the first time that this report has signalled the departure of those taking up the early retirement option by 29 February. In addition, following that, there is a requirement for a further exodus - "need" is the word used - of 561 staff across the health service....

Patient Redress Scheme (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I acknowledge the Minister's reply and I want to stay in a positive vein. I welcome the Minister's reaffirmation of his and the Government's commitment to ensure that the excluded 35 women are to have their cases not only acknowledged, but also properly compensated. I recall that we shared a platform on 25 January 2011 along with the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, when a...

Patient Redress Scheme (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask him to take on board that the Patient Focus representatives and the women themselves have not yet been engaged with by the Minister or his departmental officials on the enactment of the proposals. There is real concern that the commitment in the programme for Government refers to the age grounds alone. Of the 35 women excluded, 29 were excluded on age grounds alone. However, there...

Patient Redress Scheme (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----for whom the absolutely unnecessary procedure was carried out without consultation with them and-or their husbands.

Patient Redress Scheme (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We seek clarification and certainty that we will not now exclude anybody else from among this number.

Patient Redress Scheme (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have always spoken about 35 women.

Patient Redress Scheme (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the words of the Patient Focus spokesperson, Shelia O'Connor, all of these women, without exception, underwent negligent, damaging and unnecessary gynaecological procedures. While I welcome the certainty the Minister is sharing with us today on the 29 women, excluded from the redress scheme as established following Judge Maureen Harding Clark's deliberations as they were over 40 years of...

Hospital Staff (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The HSE has admitted that it has created a reliance on an unaffordable level of agency staff in recent years to maintain service provision. Some €200 million was spent last year on agency workers. The HSE has targeted a 50% reduction in the current year. Earlier this afternoon the Minister stated he would not lift the recruitment embargo, yet he has referred to a greater flexibility. We...

Eating Disorders (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the special action group on obesity focus on children in primary and second level schools? The earlier we start to make an intervention, the better. We need to involve the Department of Education and Skills and other agencies because there is always a risk with the presentation of such information that we might stigmatise some people, particularly young people who might be overweight,...

Hospital Procedures (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister agree that this barbaric act should never have been carried out in the first place? What we are looking at is a decreasing cohort because of the age profile and there is a need for great urgency in addressing the issue. They have been grievously wronged and the least that can be done for them is for these women to benefit from a redress scheme, including health benefits...

Hospital Procedures (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Minister any idea of the timeframe for the Attorney General's consideration? Will he again address the core issues of the needs of these women? Will he recognise the age profile of the greater number of them and that there is a need to be expeditious? We must see redress in place and we must have a full public and truly independent inquiry rather than an exercise carried out by the...

Written Answers — Health Service Plan: Health Service Plan (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health in view of his repeated commitment to enhance the role of smaller hospitals, and in view of the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2012, the services that will be provided at Monaghan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8344/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health if he was consulted on or if he intervened in the review of outpatient services at Cavan and Monaghan general hospitals which has resulted in a further reduction in services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8345/12]

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the work being undertaken to ensure that any fare increases in public transport companies will not hurt those on low incomes. [8613/12]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (16 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will be facilitating the public in reporting speed limit issues in view of the review of limits statewide. [8618/12]

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I propose to share time with Deputy Michael Colreavy.