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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 514. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he is making to address the shortage of acute child psychiatric services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32595/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 523. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will take up a position with the Health Service Executive in July 2013; the duration of the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33286/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 530. To ask the Minister for Health if additional supports are available for a person (details supplied) in County Meath who has to travel to England for urgent medical treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33332/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (9 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 552. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans to introduce tamoxifen and raloxifene in England and Wales as preventative therapies for certain breast cancer (details supplied); if such a move is being considered here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33464/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We need to remind ourselves of the Bill’s scope and intent, which I welcome. We in Sinn Féin will support its passage through Report and Final Stages today, but the address of the Bill is the protection of life during pregnancy. As party spokesperson on health, throughout the long discourse on this Bill when first mooted at the end of last year, the hearings in January, the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Some of the earlier contributions would even question the purpose of the Bill. I am absolutely of the view that the Bill addresses the protection of life both of the pregnant woman and the unborn child. There are other battle lines within political groupings and they are not unique to any one party in this Chamber, but they are there. The fact is that a significant body of opinion in this...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Sinn Féin opposed the proposal to sit until 5 a.m., not because we did not want additional time to discuss the Bill but because the time arrangement is unreasonable. The Bill should not be debated by ever-tiring heads. The Government should have rescheduled for tomorrow and Friday, if necessary, whatever time was required. Fresher, clearer contributions were what we hoped for. The...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would be more concerned about what the Minister will do after the Bill is passed. It is in the context of aftercare.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Some exchanges or contributions back Deputy Healy-Rae referred to terminations on grounds of disability. There is no proposal before us, in these or any other amendments, that would allow for a termination on such grounds. The issue is viability - the prospect of viable life beyond the womb. The issue of fatal foetal abnormalities cries out for address as, I believe, all of us have...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way job numbers, job losses and job creation figures correlated with exports over the past ten years. [33502/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the effect of the return to recession on the jobs numbers and job creation numbers. [33503/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans for the emergency department at St. Colmcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, County Dublin; if he will confirm that it is now the case that this department will remain open for an extended period; if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33849/13]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The background to these revised Estimates is the austerity cuts regime, which has resulted in reductions in health spending year on year. A sum of €781 million was cut in this year's budget, more than €750 million in budget 2012 and an additional €130 million in August 2012, and all that followed a cut of €1 billion in 2011. Along with other colleagues, I have...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no end to the questions we could raise under these subheads but I am conscious of the time constraints. I wish to focus on subhead B3. If others wish to specify the subheads they wish to discuss, that might help to expedite the discussion. The Chairman can go through the list of subheads and we could have something to say on all of them but we are understanding of the time...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This provides for a 20% reduction in the provision of moneys to tackle the drugs crisis in our society. The 5% reduction relates to both the Estimate and the outturn and it equates to €1.524 million. It is in no way reflective of the required response to the ever increasing threat from drug addiction in society demonstrating itself not only in the larger population centres, but...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 5% is one twentieth.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I apologise if I said that wrongly.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Chairman not put the proposition on Vote 38 at this point?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I raised this issue in my opening remarks and I instanced a case only this week where a person with a disability since childhood, having had a medical card while experiencing very serious associated issues, including a bowel condition, and high medical costs, had the medical card taken away on income grounds. We are not talking about massively exceeding thresholds but rather people who are...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While I appreciate the time situation, I must protest strongly that the timing of the meeting was wrong.