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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Student Universal Support Ireland application will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; the date on which first payment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53039/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in her Department or in bodies which fall under the remit of her Department whose annual remuneration including salary, pension and benefits at 31 December 2011 fell into bands of €400,000 and above, between €300,000 to €399,999, between €200,000 to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has made any contacts requesting staff whose annual salary is more than €200,000 in her Department or in any body under the remit of her Department, to waive 15% of their salary or such amount in excess of €200,000 whichever is the lesser; if she has, the date on which she first made this contact; the number of staff who...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Being Young and Irish Initiative (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of proposals from the Being Young and Irish initiative she will pursue and the timeline for implementation; in view of the fact that the Being Young and Irish report has been sent to all Government agencies and Departments, the way she is going to follow up and monitor the progress of the report's recommendations within each...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who had home help hours cut without any review; if he will immediately review this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52495/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department or in bodies which fall under the remit of his Department whose annual remuneration including salary, pension and benefits at 31 December 2011 fell into bands of €400,000 and above, between €300,000 to €399,999, between €200,000 to €299,999 and between...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he has made any contacts requesting staff whose annual salary is more than €200,000 in his Department or in any body under the remit of his Department, to waive 15% of their salary or such amount in excess of €200,000 whichever is the lesser; if he has, the date on which he first made this contact; the number of staff who acquiesced to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when he will introduce a vaccination for Meningococcal Disease Type B; if he will outline the process for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52792/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he is making to combat Meningitis; if his attention has been drawn to the work of the Meningitis Research Foundation; if he will outline the efforts he is making to support them in their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52801/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if his attentionn has been drawn to the high cost often associated with getting repeat prescription forms completed by general practitioners; if he will outline the guidance for GPs in this regard and his plans to address this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52809/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will ascertain from the Health Service Executive if he considered the option of extending the existing HSE health centre (details supplied) in Dublin 5 to develop a primary care centre rather than entering the proposed public private partnership for the development of a primary care centre on nearby Tonglegee Road; and if he will make a statement on the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, line 35, to delete “old.”,” and substitute the following:“old, (e) the imperative to ensure that all persons receive, in due time and to the highest standard possible, health services on the basis of need alone and not on the basis of ability to pay.",".At the outset I urge support for my amendment which, I believe, is an...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am speaking to the amendment. In speaking to the amendment, I note the strategy will be based on competing private health insurance companies and will represent the effective privatisation of the health services. That is my certain view. I believe the strategy has no basis in rights since it contains no commitment that patients will be guaranteed in law by the State to receive basic...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would like to have the same certainty that the Minister has, which he outlined in his reply. We have yet to see the White Paper. The Minister's intent is laudable. I acknowledge his intent, but we differ as to the vehicle to give effect to what we share, the commitment to universal health care and access on the basis of need. There is a gap as to how it is to be achieved. We have no...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, lines 10 to 12, to delete paragraphs (b) and (c).My reading of this is that the net effect of section 4 as it stands would be to remove the requirement to lay regulations before the Oireachtas in draft form. When we go back to the substantive Act of 1994, as amended in 2001, and we transpose the proposed changes and the impact of the Health Insurance...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Minister suggesting that it will be incorporated in primary legislation?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are dealing with legislation before us. This other so-called primary legislation has not presented. We have no certainty of that position. What we are being asked to do-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What we are being asked to do here is to jettison an existing scrutiny. It is not an issue of appropriateness. Whether the Minister deems it necessary is up to the individual judgment of each and every one of us. My sense of it is that it is a requirement, that it should not be removed from this legislation and that the potential consequences of it are worrying, to put it mildly. I am...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am regretful that the Minister would not accede to this. I do not believe the amendment-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----, if accepted, would be ultra vires in terms of any other provision in other legislation. One would not be in conflict with the other. In deference to the fears expressed and concerns articulated, the Minister could concede to allow paragraphs (b) and (c) to stand. I make my appeal again because I believe it is critical.