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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 475. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45849/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 539. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamenatary Question Nos. 268 and 269 of 22 October 2013, when the implementation plan of the youth guarantee will be completed; if any draft or working papers produced by the OECD on this issue can and will be made available to the member; if she will provide a copy of the documentation produced by the OECD on same; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Work Placement Programme (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 639. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of the €2.835m allocated for the local authority social employment scheme in 2013 that has been spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45822/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1019. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the review of the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; the date on which the schemes will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47287/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1058. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is differentiating between cancer patients with and without terminal cancer in the assessment of eligibility for discretionary medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45881/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1059. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made with the programme for Government commitment to establish a primary care fund to pay providers of primary care [45882/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1150. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the proposed cuts to local drugs task forces; if he will detail the approach which will be taken when allocating the budget for 2014 for local drugs task forces; if due consideration will be applied to case load-client numbers; the budget which will be allocated to the Finglas-Cabra drugs task force for 2014; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1208. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will make available an appropriate respite place in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46803/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Children in Care (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 10. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her response to the taking into care, and subsequent early return to their families, of children from Roma families in Dublin and Athlone; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48045/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Children in Care (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to ask the Minister for an update on the recent disturbing cases where children from Roma families in Dublin and Athlone were taken into care. Has the Minister received the HSE report or the report of the Garda Commissioner? Is she in a position to confirm that the Ombudsman for Children has received both reports? Is Ms Logan's inquiry under way? Is she directly involved in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Children in Care (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What happened in these cases is a far cry from what we expect from our State child care and support services. Everybody is clearly of this view. Under the Child Care Act 1991 the Garda Síochána must, as referred to by the Minister, have reasonable grounds to believe there is an immediate and serious risk. I am disappointed to hear that the Minister has not yet received a copy of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Children in Care (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is not the case. The Minister for Justice and Equality has indicated to the media that the confidential Garda report into the seizure of two Roma children from their parents shows they acted in good faith. The preparation of the report continues, but the issue is in the media and it is not good enough, because of the horrors involved in this instance, to say that we will do absolutely...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 13. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her response to the Health Information and Quality Authority report into Rath na nÓg high support unit; her future plans for the unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48046/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek from the Minister her personal response as Minister to the Health Information and Quality Authority's report into the Rath na nÓg high support unit, Castleblayney, County Monaghan. I also seek her views on that report being employed to effect its closure and the closure on same campus site of the educational facility associated with that unit. While I have noted that there are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Minister taken appropriate steps to establish why the national office would have instructed staff at Rath na nÓg to apply a lock-up situation there each night during the hours from 9 p.m. until 7.30 a.m. the next day? This is the core of the objections HIQA had, yet the staff were working not on their own volition but in response to a directive they had received. That directive...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was never going to succeed once that situation applied. I would like to know what the Minister has established in regard to the facts of that directive.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The implication of the Minister's statement is that in some way the staff at Rath na nÓg were responsible or implicated or had fallen down in their responsibilities. That is not the case. Given it is acknowledged by Mr. Jeyes that the direction relating to the lock-down which created the fire hazard in the first place came from his office, does that not concern the Minister? Will this...

Other Questions: Budget 2014 (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 15. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the full year effect of all expenditure reductions for her Department as set out in the expenditure report 2014 as was provided for in the expenditure report 2013; the areas in which cuts are to be effected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47827/13]

Other Questions: Budget 2014 (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek detail from the Minister on the impact of reductions in her Department's funding for 2014 across the various areas of its responsibilities. I am particularly interested in the youth programmes, the school completion programme, the national longitudinal study, the national children's strategy, the early intervention programme and the child and family support agency and why it has been...

Other Questions: Budget 2014 (12 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am particularly concerned about the indicated cutback of €3 million in youth programmes. There is no doubt it will have a serious impact. It is unquestionable that this needs to be revisited. The Minister indicated in her reply that a total of €8 million will be saved. The 2014 expenditure report shows that the actual figure will be €9 million. Can the Minister...