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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I stress the importance of Members of the Houses having full sight and scrutiny over regulations in draft form.

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My question is on amendment No. 7. It states non-advanced cover shall be construed in accordance with section 11E(4), but from my reading of this section, and I am always fearful of doing this because somebody may state I have missed something, it does not refer to non-advanced cover. It refers to advanced cover but not to non-advanced cover. It is on page 22 of the Bill. These are...

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 a very sad person having gone through all of this as I have and as the Minister can quite obviously note.

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was only helping the Minister.

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That was done and dusted on the floor of the Dáil. The Minister will be glad to hear I did not oppose it either.

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the White Paper?

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tuarastail Rannach (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé tar éis iarraidh ar aon bhall foirne ina Roinn, nó atá i gcomhlacht faoi scáth a Roinne, atá ag saothrú níos mó ná €200,000 sa bhliain mar thuarastal, 15% dá dtuarastal, nó an méid dá dtuarastal bliantúil atá os cionn €200,000,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on a higher education grant application in respect of a a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53381/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Registration of Title (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the turnaround time for the processing of Section 49 applications at the Land Registry; the efforts he is making to minimise this period; if he will expedite the application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53377/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REP scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53376/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (28 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he expects to receive the report on hospital groups/networks from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53194/12]

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As previously stated, Sinn Féin supports this Bill, which as indicated now and previously by the Minister of State, is a technical Bill amending the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, which established the Health and Social Care Professionals Council and, following a protracted debate in this House, which Deputy Neville will recall all too well, 12 health and social care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will receive an appointment for a consultation with an orthopaedic surgeon at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53646/12]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Health (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I always welcome an opportunity to address the Minister on these matters, which I acknowledge are of mutual concern. However, he must accept that these are bizarre circumstances for us to meet and address these matters. We are meeting within a week of budget day against a backdrop of unprecedented cuts in recent years. I refer in particular to the removal of €1 billion in 2011,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Health (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I also welcome the fact that the Minister has indicated that cuts to hospital budgets have reached rock bottom. In my view they have gone well beyond that. I hope we will not see any further cuts directed towards that network. I also hope the Minister was indicating that there would be no further cuts in home help hours and packages. These cuts have been cruel, unnecessary and immoral.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Health (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking that there would be no further cuts. Can the Minister give any indication that there will be a reversal of cuts that have already taken place? I take on board the fact that the Minister indicated a comparable saving towards the end of this year concerning his renegotiation with the pharmaceutical sector of some €16 million. The figure of €16.9 million would not...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Health (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When will we have the Supplementary Estimate?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I request a copy of the Minister's script?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Chairman and Deputy Robert Troy in congratulating the Minister and all those who participated in promoting a positive view of the children's rights referendum. It is something that the members of the committee, by and large - or those who regularly attend - can be justly proud of. Members can work that out for themselves.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (29 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A light moment is absolutely needed here sometimes.