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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (19 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason Ireland is moving to adopt the more gradual implementation of the youth guarantee scheme in veiw of the high level of youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29436/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (19 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way her Department is identifying the appropriate timescale for implementation of youth guarantee in Ireland's current circumstances; the criteria and the phasing that are planned; if a plan has been developed and forwarded to the commission and if not when this will be done; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29438/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (19 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regard to the Ballymun pilot project of the Youth Guarantee, when the pilot be up and running; when the various stakeholders be brought together; the way the project will be evaluated and the lessons learned be transferred to other areas particularly those with less well developed community supports; if she will provide a guarantee that...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Hear, hear.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Few tranches of legislation in the history of Dáil Éireann have been as widely debated and anticipated prior to their publication as the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill. The issues have been addressed in great detail in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, of which I am a member. I participated in all the hearings on the report of the expert group and on...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Childhood Obesity (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 72. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the introduction of a national strategy for a childhood obesity prevention and intervention service; if he has engaged directly or, if not, if he will engage with the anchors/providers of the W82GO childhood obesity treatment programme at Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30747/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Childhood Obesity (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister clarify his plans, about which I asked in the first part of my question, for the introduction of a national strategy for a childhood obesity prevention and integration service? I am particularly keen to know if it is part of what he proposes to introduce. At the meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children on Thursday, 13 June 2013, we were addressed by experts...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Childhood Obesity (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Minister's acknowledgement that this is a cross-departmental issue. He is right. It will require the enthusiastic involvement of the Departments of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Education and Skills, Children and Youth Affairs and, as the Minister mentioned, Justice and Equality. Is there cross-departmental engagement in a structured co-ordinated way as the Minister suggests...

Other Questions: Suicide Prevention (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I draw the Minister of State's attention not to what is best practice in Germany or Scotland, although I recognise that we have similar issues to our Scottish neighbours, but to the fact that today the outgoing mayor of South Dublin County Council, with representatives of the HSE and Comhairle na nÓg, is launching a smart phone app entitled MindMindR. I have seen it and I am hugely...

Other Questions: Health Services Staff Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The figure changed by just two between April and May.

Other Questions: Health Services Staff Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I based my preparation for today's Question Time on the figures for April of this year. The broad position in April was that 383 of last year's promised 414 staff positions had been filled, were under offer or were awaiting clearance. It appears from the April HSE census that the net increase in the number of staff in the mental health services is much lower, however, and that the actual...

Other Questions: Health Services Staff Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State played a good game in her reply, with all respect to her.

Other Questions: Health Services Staff Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would like to remind the House of what she indicated in her initial reply with regard to the backfilling of posts and what the HSE confirmed in May. She said that responsibility rests with "the regional directors of operations to decide within the context of their current resources [that is it] whether to fill vacancies that may arise as a result of the appointment of an individual to a...

Other Questions: Health Services Staff Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is all being done in the context of the so-called resources available to these directors, and not in the context of the needs of the services themselves or those who present themselves because they need care and attention. The Minister of State can call these posts what she likes and explain them as she pleases - as she has described, some of them are enhanced positions and are welcome in...

Other Questions: Health Services Staff Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Finally, a further €35 million was ring-fenced for mental health services this year, 2013. How much of that ring-fenced €35 million for mental health in 2013 - the second €35 million - has been spent and what has it been spent on, if at all?

Other Questions: Health Services Staff Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I respond to that?

Other Questions: Health Services Staff Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are on the cusp of the second half of this year and the Minister of State is talking about what she has learned from 2012, yet no new positions have been filled for 2013. This is unacceptable. If people have stopped complaining to the Minister of State, she should ask herself why. They are certainly complaining to Deputy Kelleher, myself and others because there is great concern within...

Other Questions: Health Services Staff Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no insult in facing the truth.

Other Questions: Obesity Strategy (25 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join Deputy Kelleher in welcoming the progress on the issue of menthol cigarettes.