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Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the total sum spent by the Health Service Executive and his Department in 2011 and to date in 2012 for consultancy services other than medical/clinical consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39660/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children Services Committees (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Health Service Executive children and adolescent mental health service is represented on the children services committees at a local authority level or on the national children's strategy implementation group at a national level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39628/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency Remit (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to proceed with the recommendation of the task force on the Child and Family Support Agency to include children and adolescent mental health service within the new agency; the way this will deliver better inter-agency co-operation between HSE, CAMHS and the child welfare and protection services; the way this might be addressed in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding ringfenced funding of €35 million for mental health service provision; if the money is still ringfenced for mental health services; the way the funds will be used; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39507/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the €35 million allocated in 2012 for the development of community mental health services; the number of posts filled; the number of posts remaining to be filled; if this sum is still ring-fenced for this purpose; if he will give a guarantee that it will not be used for other purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when the promised provision of free GP care to long-term illness patients will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39654/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he approved the €130 million further cuts to the 2012 health budget, including the proposed cuts to personal assistance services for the disabled, the home care cuts and the home help cuts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39655/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to cease the provision of gluten-free products on prescription for medical card patients with coeliac disease; and if he will provide equivalent alternative supports or measures for coeliac patients, in view of the excessive cost of gluten-free products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39656/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to reverse the decision to cease emergency and cardiology services at Nenagh Hospital, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39658/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he has ascertained from the Health Service Executive the reason it was decided to cease emergency and cardiology services at Nenagh Hospital, County Tipperary even though the critical care unit in the Limerick Regional Hospital is not yet fully opened or fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39659/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts (19 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the total sum spent by the Health Service Executive and his Department in 2011 and to date in 2012 for consultancy services other than medical/clinical consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39660/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Authority Investigations (20 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to an acquisition (details supplied); the implications of this for the independent booksellers and publishers industry here; the efforts he has made to protect and enhance the independent booksellers and publishers industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39724/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-14: Discussion with Secretary General of Department of Health (20 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I also welcome Dr. McLoughlin. This is his first opportunity to address the committee. I also join in wishing Mr. Tony O'Brien the very best in his new role and responsibilities. Reference was made in the strategy and again in Dr. McLoughlin's address to total expenditure for the public health service being reduced by approximately €1.1 billion over the period 2011 to 2014. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-14: Discussion with Secretary General of Department of Health (20 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate that but it is part of the budgetary aspect of the strategy. Let no one be under any illusion; it was €10 million over €40 million, a 25% hit. It is outrageous. Could we have certainty that the cut has been confined to the dustbin? What of the €35 million ring-fenced for community mental health services? Again, Dr. McLoughlin made direct reference to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-14: Discussion with Secretary General of Department of Health (20 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will make my final points that are referred to in the document but I would appreciate a reference to coeliac disease in Dr. McLoughlin's reply. Where stands the implementation group on universal health insurance? It was established last February and we have heard little of it since. When will it report? My last question which Dr. McLoughlin referred to specifically in his remarks is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-14: Discussion with Secretary General of Department of Health (20 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There were a number of points that were not responded to and my questions were all relevant. I will isolate two points referred to in the strategy and the address.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-14: Discussion with Secretary General of Department of Health (20 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is the current position on the preparation and publication of the framework for smaller hospitals? What is the position on free GP care for all and the legal difficulties regarding the long-term illness patients? On behalf of those who are coeliac, I ask Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin to comment.

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (25 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to share time with Deputy McLellan.

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (25 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The term is often used but I am happy to say that, for me and, I am sure, for everyone else who is interested in the subject which lies at the core of this debate and that which will occur in the Seanad next week, this is an historic occasion. It is one that the children of Ireland have awaited far too long. I commend the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, on bringing forward a formula of words...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is a very important motion. We must all hope that it is also another significant step on the road to justice and truth for the former detainees in the Magdalene laundries. That will be decided by the Minister and her colleagues in government. I commend the Justice for Magdalenes campaign group for their work. It has given a voice to women who were appallingly treated over decades....