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Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is being done to address the overall serious position of Tallaght hospital? I notice the recent statement by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation calling for more nurses to be appointed. It has reflected on the 2012 HIQA report and the current situation, which is described as being worse. These are front-line staff. The 2012 HIQA report was quite alarming, to put it mildly, but...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This matter was raised at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children on Tuesday when Dr. Colin Doherty, the national clinical lead for the epilepsy programme, was before the committee. He indicated he was at a loss to understand this because he had been a direct participant in advertising and interviewing during the recruitment process. He could not in any way...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The ceist is will the Minister try-----

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is happening this morning? With respect I ask Deputy Stanton to allow me to finish.

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have. It is a very serious matter when the clinical lead outlines the difficulties. Will the Minister establish why the delay has taken place and why we have not already seen the appointments in Cork in line with all of the other areas, and ensure we will not have a repetition of such delays for such an important service?

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 13. To ask the Minister for Health the way he can reconcile the programme for Government commitment that investment in the supply of more and better care for older persons in the community and in residential settings will be a priority of this Government and that additional funding will be provided each year for the care of older persons, including more residential places, with the Health...

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How can the Minister reconcile a programme for Government commitment in regard to supports and the provision of beds in nursing home facilities for older people and the fact there is no new moneys in the 2014 HSE service plan for this very purpose?

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: More older people are occupying acute hospital beds for longer as they await ever-scarcer nursing home places. The consequences of that are very clear in terms of straitened health budgets and beds in the acute hospital system. Has the Minister of State established the number of patients of senior years who have been retained in acute hospital settings beyond their medical care need, many...

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister of State indicate when she expects these additional packages and additional bed opportunities to be in place? It comes back to the point that acute hospital beds are being occupied by people whose real need is long-term residential care. I fully support care in the community. Make no mistake, if those people could return home, many of them would make that choice. I know...

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Bill follows almost exactly a year after the introduction of the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 and is part of the Government's claimed programme of change in the public health services. When the HSE was first established, we in Sinn Féin claimed it represented bureaucratic change rather than real reform. It was not the replacement of the inequitable and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 21. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the implementation of the recommendations of the North-South feasibility study on co-operation in the provision of health services on the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6916/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 37. To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken to address the crisis situation at Tallaght hospital as highlighted by the INMO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6920/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 50. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant posts, by discipline and hospital site, unfilled at time of responding; the posts that have been advertised and the period of time that each post has been unfilled; the reason he believes some posts remain unfilled for inordinate periods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6919/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 45. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the divisional plans recently published by the Health Service Executive. [6917/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 176. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the east Meath, Drogheda and south Louth water supply scheme which was included in the Water Services Investment Plan 2007-2009; if he will provide an overview of the scheme including its stage of progress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7369/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The tobacco industry has had to accept the huge damage to public health that its products have caused. I note the following statement from the representative of P.J. Carroll, Mr. Donaldson: "Let me say that we fully accept that smoking causes serious and fatal diseases." In fairness to him, he did not state that this applies only to children and young people, but across the board. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Since we are not going back to the previous speakers, will Mr. Ridderbeekx indicate whether he is a smoker? I would like an answer from each of the panel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We say well done to Mr. Reerink.

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The subject of this debate is hugely important to the safety of our citizens and to the quality of our democracy. We are addressing the integrity of the police service, An Garda Síochána, and the mechanisms established by this Oireachtas to ensure proper accountability of that service. I stress the word "service". Too often we hear the word 'force' in respect of police here and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 531. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the process for establishing the water charges fee to apply from 2015; the role of Government, Dáil Éireann, Irish Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation in establishing this charge; the timeline for same; if it is the case that there will be opportunity to consider exemptions,...