Results 12,081-12,100 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
- Written Answers — Substance Misuse: Substance Misuse (12 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 618: To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in progressing the commitment made at the conference on alcohol misuse in January 2012 to work with the Northern Executive on the introduction of minimum pricing on an all-Ireland basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28367/12]
- Written Answers — Substance Misuse: Substance Misuse (12 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 619: To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland to discuss the recommendations in the national substance misuse strategy report to introduce statutory codes on alcohol advertising and marketing under section 42 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 and in view of the fact that the BCI is developing new general commercial and children's...
- Job Losses (13 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important matter and I thank the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, for being present to respond. I wrote to the Minister last evening and now we have the opportunity to share our thoughts on the very distressing situation in Castleblayney, a town that suffered recent significant job losses with the closure of...
- Job Losses (13 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate these are early hours following on the dreadful announcement. I have corresponded directly with the Musgrave Group and received a response from that company today to my written appeal sent yesterday. I have it to say it has offered nothing and has guaranteed nothing. However, Musgrave has of course sought to recruit my support of calls for an end to the workers' protest at the...
- Job Losses (13 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Minister to look at this and, at the very least, consider urging and encouraging.
- Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (13 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has concluded his consultation with civil service trade unions in relation to notice requirements for retirements and resignations; if the notice period for senior civil servants and key personnel will be extended; and when he will issue a revised instruction regarding the same. [28247/12]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (13 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 296 and 301 of 22 May 2012, if a fresh look is being taken at the planned school extension at a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will bring same forward to tender and construction stage. [28595/12]
- Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (14 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health if mileage allowances has been cut for Health Service Executive staff working in the community in the Cavan/Monaghan area; when this was introduced; the projected savings to be made; if an analysis of the impact on patient care has been carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28701/12]
- Written Answers — General Practitioner Services: General Practitioner Services (14 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding general practitioners charging for taking blood samples from patients with a medical card; if his attention has been drawn to the extent of this practice and the steps he is taking to have this any other inappropriate charging ended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28820/12]
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (14 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health his estimate of the total sum expended by the population on health services, including Exchequer funding, contributions to health insurance providers and direct payments by patients to general practitioners and to all other private health service providers; if he will provide the breakdown of the total by each of the above headings and any other...
- Medical Inquiries (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish an independent inquiry into the manner in which the Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, the then Health Board, the Department of Health, the Medical Council and An Garda SÃochána dealt with complaints of abuse by former consultant Michael Shine; if financial assistance will be provided to Dignity 4 Patients for secretarial and...
- Medical Inquiries (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the Minister's responses to me last week at the health committee and again today, he indicated giving consideration to how best to deal with the issues involved in the Michael Shine case. As he has already indicated, some of the possible options in terms of an inquiry or how it would be constructed may not be open to him at this time. What consideration is he therefore giving and what...
- Medical Inquiries (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is it possible for the Minister to establish for how long this investigation by the Garda is likely to continue? It has been ongoing for years. If it is to be trundled out as a reason we cannot progress a logical stepped investigation, we must ask what is causing the delay. Why is there such an absence of progress on the Garda's part in this regard? We need to know the facts. Is there a...
- Medical Inquiries (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is there not potential within existing arrangements in the Oireachtas configuration to allow such an investigation in this case?
- Accident and Emergency Services (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Notwithstanding the work of the special delivery unit, does the Minister accept the long waiting times and the overcrowding in accident and emergency departments are directly related to the fact there is, among other factors, inadequate acute hospital bed provision? Is it not the case we cannot move patients from accident and emergency departments into the wards if there is not adequate...
- Accident and Emergency Services (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They must, but bed needs are still a part of it.
- Hospital Services (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have seen the reply the Minister sent to my colleague, Deputy Stanley, on 6 June and I note his reply today as well. Both responses invite more questions than they answer. In the response on 6 June, the Minister speaks of "informal catchment areas", issues with the areas that are "typically cyclical" and in referring to hospitals, he referred "to what they view" as their catchment areas....
- Hospital Services (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is bizarre. I want to hear what the Minister is doing to have this matter addressed properly.
- Hospital Services (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the his reply to the question on 6 June, the Minister went on to state that it had been "agreed in the interim that any planned and agreed changes in referrals-catchment areas should not impact on patients who are already on a waiting list in a particular hospital or are patients in long term care/treatment". That is fine in terms of those who are already there, but these are important...
- Mental Health Services (19 Jun 2012)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. As she will be aware, a psychiatric unit was promised at Beaumont Hospital 25 years ago when the hospital was constructed. I understand she turned the sod for the new mental health unit in January. Is she confident the January 2013 timeframe is a realisable deadline?