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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will return to a question we considered earlier. The Irish Pharmacy Union has sent us a communication asking us to raise this matter with the Minister. All sorts of circumstances could present themselves if the "do not substitute" notation is not in the handwriting of the prescribing GP. Somebody could devise a brand. Any number of other situations might present. We were invited to ask...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I strongly disagree that section 15 will provide comfort for pharmacists.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State made the link. It is my strong view that section 13 will not comfort pharmacists. It comes back to the myriad situations that can present. It is important, in giving effect to their professional judgment, that there be a degree of cover or comfort for pharmacists in order that, in the event that something is other than what was intended, they would be covered. If we...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State's observations on section 12 and my previous concerns are acknowledged. The case relating to this amendment is valid and stands on its merit. I wish to record my acceptance of it.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support amendments Nos. 9 and 10. I do not know if the phrase should go immediately after "decision"; I would opt to put it in after the reference to the supplier of the item. The case is irrefutable. Maximum dissemination of information is hugely important. Prescribers and pharmacists are key players in all of this. We are talking about maintenance and ongoing amendments. Decisions...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While it is not contained in the wording of Deputy Billy Kelleher's amendments and in order to guarantee the full dissemination of information, the IPU and the IMO should also be informed of any change. These are normal steps which should be taken in this regard. I have no particular knowledge of the extent of items being added to or deleted from the reimbursement list. However, I am well...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a question. I ask the Minister of State to tell us why the welfare of the patient is not included in the criteria listed in section 21.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not know that it does what the Minister of State suggests. I refer to the therapeutic benefits of the item for patients who are likely to use the item, as against the welfare of the patient.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As I have raised this issue now, if the Minister of State has no further comment to make on it, an amendment may be tabled on Report Stage if a member was of the opinion that this would be helpful.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It does happen if one is a Deputy.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: And rightly so.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have not given prior consideration of the matter and the Deputy's point sounds relevant. No malpractice is suggested and that must be the clear critical determinant of whether somebody is suitable to practise as a pharmacist. It is without question that in times such as these situations can present that nobody could ever have planned for or catered to. It is within the bounds of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to cease the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant schemes until such time as an alternative scheme or schemes are put in place that is both compliant with equality legislation and provides at least equivalent support to all individuals qualifying under the said two schemes; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This issue has not been addressed in the two years since the coalition came to power. The entire focus on the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant scheme has only come to pass again because it is out of sync with the equality legislation. No action has taken place over that two year period and there is no point in hiding behind the failures of the previous Administration....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What should have happened for this sector of people with disabilities is that an alternative should have been devised and the scheme should have been extended to accommodate this if, at whatever point, the commencement of this consideration got under way. As the Minister of State can be no less aware of the extent of the hurt and pain this has caused throughout the State, I again ask and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is known that the Department of Health - I will leave it as being that Department, as distinct from the two successive Governments - was aware since 2008 that these particular schemes were not in line with the Equal Status Acts. The aforementioned schemes have been akimbo since the millennium year of 2000. What has the Minister of State discovered the Department of Health to have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Since the millennium year.

Other Questions: Ambulance Service (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In a previous reply to a parliamentary question on current national targets for ambulance response times, the Minister indicated that the targets were being abandoned and replaced with new criteria. Could we have an update on what is happening in that regard and the process being used? Does the Minister accept that with the loss of critical services at some of our smaller hospital sites, it...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Other Questions: Hospital Acquired Infections (20 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not wish to cause any aggravation but I wish to have my view put on record. There are 91 questions in the names of Fine Gael Deputies. I would judge eight of those questions to have been written by their respective authors, the named Deputies, but 83 of them are definitely manufactured by a single hand, each of them seeking information on measures that have been taken. I do not deny...