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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Did it require legislation? Was it an order? What is the mechanism for the delivery of the reduction?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Let me explore further arguments on Deputy Kelleher's amendments. Has the Minister or his officials extrapolated exactly the comparative impacts on the customer base of the difference between the 12% and 10% levy? As the Chairman said, it is about the customer at the end of the day. I hope there is a wish across the board that the negative impact, in terms of cost for policy holders across...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has a calculation of the likely impact of these changes been made? The comparative position-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If I could just comment-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: You are having no discussion at all. I have nothing to hand to explain the reason.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Surely, you will allow me to finish my sentence?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have no idea what you have just said.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have not had sight of it. All that I have received is the statement: "The following amendments have been ruled out of order." End of story.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have not received that, or, rather, I have not had sight of it. I make the distinction between the two. I have not had sight of it. I very well understand the point in respect of commencement. It is an opportunity to reflect again to the Minister the importance of the White Paper on the financing of universal health insurance. We are talking in a limbo situation in respect of the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am unsure why amendment No. 8 could not have been accepted because it would have most certainly protected the customer base of the various institutions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to echo some of the points made by Deputy Humphreys. Following the aborted oral hearing in 2010 EirGrid introduced a new methodology of engagement; it was all about the consultation roadmap. That had not applied in the previous engagement with the people in the communities who were to be affected along the Meath, Cavan, Monaghan corridor. Deputy Humphreys makes an excellent point....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Mr. Slye can cut the time in half by incorporating together his response to me and Deputy Heather Humphreys. This is, for all intents and purposes, a new project. It is not a continued trajectory and the people of the affected counties deserve to have the engagement that applies in each of the other two instances. Such engagement has not been afforded to those who reside across counties...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on negotiations to secure a site for the new post-primary school in Ashbourne, County Meath. [52442/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV-AIDS Strategy: Discussion (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome our guests and thank them for their contributions. I understand the national sexual health strategy is being prepared by the Institute of Public Health. Dr. Holohan has indicated that the strategy is being finalised. When does he expect it to be ready for publication and will it present an opportunity to address some of the deficits and areas of concern that he and other speakers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV-AIDS Strategy: Discussion (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In tandem with that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV-AIDS Strategy: Discussion (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To clarify, I asked Dr. Holohan whether he would commend the utilisation of the launch of the national sexual health strategy as a means of addressing some of the issues about which we were talking. I do not expect him to expose any of the detail of the HSE national service plan for 2014, but has it been agreed to set aside additional moneys to address the areas about which we have a shared...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Minister for Helath, Dr. Holohan who has been with us all morning and Ms Luddy. I also welcome the briefing note from the tobacco and alcohol control unit in the Department of Health. I had sought an elaboration on the evidence for the potential success of the measure. The jury is still out on this measure, but there is adequate reassurance that this is worth doing, not so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect, that is not the evidence I was seeking. That seems to be a contrary position from the tobacco industry. I am looking for the affirmative response of either the Australian Government or the Department of Health, not what the tobacco industry might sponsor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Well done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Health (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I seek clarification?