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Written Answers — Department of Health: Smaller Hospitals Framework (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 238. To ask the Minister for Health when the small hospitals framework report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21872/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Smaller Hospitals Framework (8 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 239. To ask the Minister for Health when the Higgins report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21873/13]

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I had hoped that with the passage of a couple of weeks since we last debated the issue on Report Stage the Minister of State might take a different view. I regret, however, that he remains solid in his opposition to the proposed amendments from me and my colleagues in this regard. I draw to his attention what amendment No. 4 states. It proposes to insert the phrase, "The Board shall, in...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Nobody is proposing to delete any part of subsection (7), as cited by the Minister of State.

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: However, it does not cite the special case in relation to anti-epileptic drugs, AEDs. Amendment No. 4 does not seek to create exemptions; rather it seeks that due regard be had to the exceptional situation applying to people with epilepsy. There is no point in trumpeting language used elsewhere in the legislation that is not particular to the set of drugs about which we are speaking,...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We represent a broad range of political opinions and I know that our concerns are shared by members of the Government parties. It is tragic that this is not being taken on board by the Minister of State and those with whom he has engaged in preparation for the taking of these amendments. Amendment No. 4 does not seek to alter the intent of the legislation but carefully and with full...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 19, to delete lines 1 to 21. My position on this group of amendments is contingent on how we deal with amendment No. 6. The Minister of State might appreciate that I am in a little dilemma because we must discuss amendment No. 5 and others, yet the fate of amendment No. 6 determines whether I press for the deletion of Chapter 2 and the first paragraph of...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While the Minister responded to all the amendments, the hook on which I hang my case is contained in the broad thrust of amendment No. 6. I am not asking that the order of the amendments be changed. However, will the Minister indicate his Department's view of the argument that it would aid the objective of increased generic substitution if general practitioners were to prescribe on the...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I hear what the Minister is saying and it is a clearer response than what I was picking up in the first instance. That may be as much my fault, or mine alone, but what I read from what the Minister is saying is that it might be a good idea, and then there is a "but". We need to recognise that this Bill is about encouraging and facilitating the greatest possible generic substitution and all...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support Deputy Naughten's proposal and believe the amendment is eminently sensible. I would like to offer one additional observation and, by doing so, suggest it does not discount the case. In the instance Deputy Naughten has cited of people on up to 15 or more tablets per day, invariably, and particularly in the case of older people, they are not looking at 15 separate vessels of...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 14:In page 30, lines 16 to 18, to delete all words from and including "to" where it secondly occurs in line 16 down to and including "who" in line 18.I am not pressing either amendment as they were contingent on the position on amendment No. 6. If they were validly for consideration, I deeply regret that amendment No. 15 was disallowed, allegedly because it might involve...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support Deputy Billy Kelleher in this argument. Like him, I am absolutely incredulous of the provision which debars a pharmacist from practising because he or she has fallen on difficult economic times. It seems to be an absolutely inappropriate measure. It is only compounding whatever difficulties he or she has to contend with. We have to recognise and realise that it in no way...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 18:In page 36, after line 30, to insert the following:"37.--The Minister shall, within three months of the commencement of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the potential implications on patient safety and public health, in the event of medicinal products in the anti-epileptic drug class, when used in the treatment of persons with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has proceeded to seek expressions of interest from interested persons or nominations of specific persons who would be prepared to serve as members of the board of the yet to be established Child and Family Agency; the number of board positions she intends for the new Agency; if a person (details supplied) has taken up her position...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: For the Minister's information, at this morning's meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, I urged that we take the opportunity to engage with Norah Gibbons on the earliest date possible and we hope to do that over the next couple of weeks although we are heavily involved in addressing upcoming legislation with hearings on the heads of the Protection of Life During...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I commend to the Minister the inclusion of the salient expertise, relevant knowledge and experience in the family resource centre network. I have personal experience of its worth in my constituency and that is reflected the length and breadth of the country. It is very important that it continues to have that involvement and access. I appreciate that the Minister would not have the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Or of their employment.

Other Questions: Ombudsman for Children Reports (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister for her reply. At the outset, I want to say I have great respect for Ms Logan and for her office. The purpose of my question is to establish whether the Office of the Ombudsman for Children is dealing with the various cases that come before it. We all receive the annual report - I have attended its launch on a number of occasions - and we all then continue on into the...

Other Questions: Ombudsman for Children Reports (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Minister's reply. She demonstrates that the essence of what I am trying to get at is actually happening. Whether or not the full potential of what could be achieved is currently in train is something we can explore again. I welcome the positivity of the Minister's reply and I commend that continuing approach to develop it, where possible.

Other Questions: Child Development (9 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: One cannot overstate the importance of this particular area. We prepare young people for all sorts of responsibilities in life through the education system but there is very little focus on or preparation for the responsibilities of parenting, which is a huge responsibility and arguably even more important than many other considerations currently occupying top positions. We need a...