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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: It is very difficult-----

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 made no such inference.

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 know, but the clock will not allow us to address the subhead properly.

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 have raised the matter in my opening remarks. Subhead C1 relates to primary care and community-led demand schemes, which have seen a reduction of 8.6%. My particular area of concern relates to the 950,000 home help hours that were removed. The Minister, in his response, talked about restoring the hours to the 2011 figures and the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, gave a commitment to...

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: My comment relates to subhead C2. Earlier I made reference to the Health (Amendment) Bill going through the Houses. Its briefing document states that funding available for long-term residential care has been reduced by €20 million in 2013. Earlier, the Minister made a point about other measures with regard to outcome assessments, which is fair enough. Has any evaluation been made...

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: Is an impact assessment being done?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the sub-committee not required to vote on this?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In that case, I strongly object not only to the inadequate opportunity to address these matters but also to the fact that we are continuing to see a contraction in terms of resource provision in the area of health, not only in the Department but, in particular, in the HSE.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Sinn Féin supports the address of the issue of a woman's right to secure the termination of a pregnancy in the context of rape or incest. It is our party policy. The heinous act of rape, with all the physical hurt and mental anguish that accompanies it, is confounded by the failure of our provisions to acknowledge this right to take a particular course of action where a woman is a...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support the Minister's amendments. I have also supported amendments - one of which will be coming up for a vote immediately after this - which seek to provide greater clarity and give reassurance to an opposing view or outlook on the legislation. I do not think it is about satisfying anything political. It is about using the opportunities that may present in the course of the final...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 26:In page 8, line 2, after “Oireachtas” to insert “, and be notified to the Joint Committee on Health,”.Regarding any change to the appropriate institutions list made by the Minister, the Bill, as presented, requires that such orders be laid before each House of the Oireachtas. The amendment seeks to have notification also sent to the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The volume of matters laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas is significant. The work of members of the respective committees, in this instance, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, a committee with a dual-portfolio responsibility, is voluminous when it comes to the perusal of statutory instruments, all matters pertaining to European directives, etc. The volume of the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 43:In page 9, line 13, after “consult” to insert “with appropriate urgency,”.Amendments Nos. 43 and 76 seek to achieve the same outcome. They want to instill a sense of urgency in terms of the medical practitioners seeking to engage with a woman's consent with her general practitioner. Any reading of the requirements on the medical...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I indicated in my contribution that I understood the assumption. I do not believe the concern must be grave in order to have us consider injecting the phrase with which I have tried to achieve better clarity. It is very important that we convey our expectations. The utilisation of "shall make" does not place a requirement on the medical practitioner to act even the same day. The Minister...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 76:In page 10, line 29, after “consult” to insert “with appropriate urgency,”.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Last evening the Minister indicated he would address the matter dealt with in this amendment. My understanding on Committee Stage was that he had indicated a willingness to present an accommodation for aftercare and optional therapeutic counselling services for women who have had terminations. Several colleagues have objected to the fact that no amendment of any shape or form has been...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As on Committee Stage, I seek to include the wording "other than the pregnant woman" in section 22(2), in other words, a person other than the pregnant woman guilty of an offence under this section. The purpose and intent of the amendment reflects the overwhelming opinion of Irish people today. It is not unique to those who argue from a pro-choice point to view, in terms of care and...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There are. I am speaking in my first contribution on this important matter of criminalisation.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to finish my arguments on why this should not be in the Bill. I reject the empty assurances of voices on the television screens who state this will never present, that the courts would never decide so. The prescription is in the legislation. I am afraid it could well happen and my fear is that it will. Just as assuredly as, in 1992, the X case presented, there will be situations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the development of a new school (details provided) in County Dublin ; if that school is part of the new build schedule; the date on which works will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34123/13]