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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a fund will be available within Irish Water for rural water schemes; if funding will be maintained for rural water schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42710/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way group water schemes will link in with the new Irish Water body in view of the relationships that these schemes have with local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42711/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been sent back to central funds by local authorities due to the inability of these authorities to match funding on a county basis for each of the past five years providing the most recent figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42712/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the efforts she is making to facilitate the estimated 50,000 adopted persons in this State who have been refused access to their personal medical and other records. [43459/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a programme of supports for established small private creche providers, similar to the community childcare subvention programme that targets the community not for profit childcare services, in view of the considerable investment made and the serious hit that these providers have taken because they cannot access CCS...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will outline her policy in relation to open and closed adoptions; if he will detail the relevant guidelines and protocols which advise authorities in this regard; the effect the upcoming Children's Referendum and associated Adoption Bill will have on these protocols; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43458/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the public dental services available for children; the public dental services available to children in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42715/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Location (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a decision will be made on the location of the new National Children's Hospital; the process and criteria that is being used to decide on the location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42984/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increased costs to former cancer patients of in vitro fertilisation treatment; if he will investigate this anomaly and take measures to rectify same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43007/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the current Health Service Executive budget overrun and consequent cuts in essential services, his views on whether energy costs across the health sector, estimated by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, at €80 million a year at least, should be reduced by up to 20% on an urgent basis; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if a nutritional supplement (details supplied) is still covered under the General Medical Services; if there are circumstances in which this supplement is still covered and if a person in Dublin 8 is eligible; if he will provide a complete list of drugs covered via PCRS currently and those which have been removed in the past 12 months; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the most recent changes to the stock of occupational therapy home care aids and appliances in the Health Service Executive Dublin North East area; if he will detail the procurement process which was followed in advance of the most recent changes of suppliers; if he is satisfied that this process compiled with all the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty that community midwives, excluding home birth midwives, have in accessing professional indemnity insurance; the way he intends to address this matter in view of the Programme for Government commitment to primary and community care; if he has considered the potential role of the State Claims Agency clinical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the proposals to outsource laundry services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; the stage this proposed change is at and the process of pre-change analysis; if he will investigate this situation with a view to maintaining this service within the public health service and retaining a dedicated and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the expected cost savings from the introduction of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 and the negotiations with regards the cost of on-patent drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43485/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Maintenance (9 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the reinstatement of the local improvement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42713/12]

Other Questions: Freedom of Information Legislation (10 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce the Freedom of Information Bill before Dáil Éireann goes into recess in December. [43494/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (10 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the details, number and location of the list of intended locations for the provision of primary healthcare centres by direct State capital funding; the projected commencement date for works to begin at the said locations; when he expects that they will be commissioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43618/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards Regulation (10 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the review of the role and responsibilities of Safefood; when a report will issue; if he anticipates that Safefood's long standing function in relation to food safety, diet and nutrition will be re-confirmed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43619/12]

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Tánaiste in any way concerned at the contempt of the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, for those who question him? They include, obviously, the former Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Róisín Shortall. They certainly include Opposition Deputies whose responsibility it is to hold the Minister to account and to raise the appropriate issues. Now,...