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Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Minister to outline to the House the points of contact he had with the Ministers for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Environment, Community and Local Government prior to their announcements.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Please answer the question.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Capital Programme (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How many other hospitals have been allocated specific funding by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Working Holiday Visas (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons here who took up working holiday visas in 2012 under the agreements with Argentina, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and the USA, by country; and the allocation of visas here in respect of each of these countries for 2013. [4219/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received an appeal against the decision to disallow the student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; if so, when he expects a decision to be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4404/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details, year on year, of the compensation funding stream from the National Lottery, to those charities who had their own scratch card fund raising in situ and whose returns were negatively impacted by the introduction of the coterie of National Lottery products; if he will provide the above requested detail by individual...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on inter-country adoption arrangements between Ireland and Vietnam; the way this programme will be administered into the future; if funding is guaranteed for the mediation agency Helping Hands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4438/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the reason bilateral cochlear implants are not funded in this State; if he will acknowledge the significant benefits of this procedure in comparison to unilateral implants; if he will address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4439/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of non-consultant hospital doctors in tabular form by grade, gender and by Health Service Executive Region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3860/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (29 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive an appointment with the child development team of the Health Service Executive; the plans in place to ensure that timely diagnoses are made for children with Asperger's Syndrome; if priority will be given to this case in view of the circumstances involved; and if he will make a statement on the...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Bill is supposedly another step in the Government's health reform programme. The people have grown wary of the word "reform" in the mouth of the Government and, especially, the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly. We are hearing the rhetoric about reform, but the reality is nthat there is regression and retrenchment. When the HSE was established, Sinn Féin argued that it...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I must have dreamt it. The Minister has not withdrawn the remark, unless he is in the process of doing so now.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister clarify how this was recounted -----

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----following an interview he gave to a credible Sunday newspaper?

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Whatever the position is, I have not heard the Minister repudiate that report.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is certainly a significant currency in relation to those comments and the report I read. I take it that the Minister is withdrawing his remark.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Minister contacted the reporter or newspaper concerned?

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Minister tried to correct the record?

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is what we have all read and heard. I understand the paper in question was The Sunday Business Post. Is that correct? I think it was.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: So it was a different paper, was it? Whatever is the case, the Minister agrees that it concerns some newspaper.