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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 533. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options available for a community (details supplied) in County Meath to improve the quality and supply of their water; if he will agree to meet with representatives of a local campaign group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8352/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding adult speech and language therapy service in Waterford city; the impact this is having on patients there including neurology patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8038/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 741. To ask the Minister for Health if seven nursing staff intended to deliver the national epilepsy care programme at Cork University Hospital have yet to be deployed; if he will outline the services intended to be provided at that facility and those currently in place; his plans to address this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8039/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Chairman in welcoming Mr. McAnenly and Ms Ní Sheaghdha and I thank them very much for attending and representing the INMO. We will have an opportunity to engage with the Minister directly after this meeting. What the witnesses have shared with us will be very helpful in preparing for it. I join Deputy Kelleher in expressing disappointment that NAMA did not feel it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How many of those staff are there? Is it 205?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Have we passed the point of rescue? Are front-line providers of specialist services, for example, the surgical teams and consultants working at the facility, still in a state of limbo? Are they available and willing to resume responsibilities or are they lost in the system or beyond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: And Monaghan. Do not let the Minister off the hook.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As the Minister well knows I have no particular fondness or brief for private health care. I have made that patently clear to the Minister over the years. However, I have to recognise that in the context of the current configuration of the hospital network, Mount Carmel was playing an important and useful role. The loss of its facilities is therefore a loss to the structure of delivering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On St. James' interest in the Mount Carmel facility, I asked specifically about HSE discussions with NAMA that had not been advised to St. James’s. I have been advised that the HSE voices endeavoured to present themselves as speaking for St. James’s. There is a serious matter there. I have asked the Minister whether he will address this matter and explore the detail of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Regarding the latter comment, it is nothing to do with any of these other section 38 and section 39 issues. It relates to how St. James's will be able to facilitate its ongoing work responsibilities while the construction of the new national children's hospital would be underway. That was the primary interest it had in Mount Carmel. That is something that surely the Minister would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not only a Dublin facility nor would it be.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 217. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 16 January 2014, when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive an appointment for a hip replacement procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8473/14]

Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have no objection.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceapacháin Bhreithiúnacha) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Judicial Appointments) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the opportunity to speak about Deputy Shane Ross’s judicial appointments Bill. I commend him for his preparation of the legislation. My party, led by our justice spokesperson, Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, published the Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013 in January last year which, in a similar vein to Deputy Shane Ross's Bill, sought to increase...

Organ Donation: Motion (21 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is undeniable that the work of Oireachtas committees in the current Oireachtas has surpassed that in all previous sessions of the Dáil and the Seanad prior to 2011. That is my clear perception and understanding. In terms of quality and quantity, the work and product have improved, which is a tribute to the members of the committees, their respective chairpersons and secretariats,...

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On behalf of Sinn Féin, I welcome this Bill. It is a very long overdue and necessary development to improve the delivery of health services. The allocation of an individual number or unique identifier to each individual for the purpose of health services has been talked about for a very long time. At least now we are finally seeing progress, which is welcome. It is a pity this...

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----for my purposes, when free GP care is not free. That is my question. It certainly has suggested to me at least a lack of clarity and lack of coherence in this coalition's approach to health care. The White Paper on universal health insurance should be published immediately. I wonder whether the Minister of State has anything to tell us in that regard, given that it was before the...

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We need such an informed debate. At the moment, what we have is, as I have described, an internal row within this coalition Government, with the people and the people's representatives in these Houses of the Oireachtas excluded. That is unacceptable. As I said in the context of another health Bill recently, the Bill before us today may be part of a bigger picture, but I have yet to see that...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 448. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to his Department's role in relation to the social affordability of water charges (details supplied), if it is the case that due consideration will be given to the financial costs associated with living in hard water areas, for example, cost of water softeners or shortened lifespan of white good products and so...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question 531 of 18 February 2014, the members of the inter-departmental working group; the number of times the group has met; the group's terms of reference; if issues of water hardness are to be considered in relation to affordability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9644/14]