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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Work Projects Funding (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 690. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 295 of 16 January 2014, if the value for money review of youth work funding schemes has been completed, if so, when it will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18869/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 758. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 27 March 2014, when a response will issue from the Health Service Executive [18753/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 862. To ask the Minister for Health when a full medical card, already approved on income grounds, will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [19325/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 863. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [19326/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 901. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards currently under review, broken down by county; the reason retired persons who have previously worked in another EU state and who qualified for a non-means tested medical card are being asked to do a means test as part of the review. [19499/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 902. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who was in receipt of a non-means tested medical card based on previous contributions while working in another EU state from which they are in receipt of a pension, and in receipt of no State pension or welfare payment here, is now subject to a means test and medical card review; if this represents...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 916. To ask the Minister for Health the options and supports available to a person (details supplied) in County Longford who has been recommended for surgery in a foreign country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19626/14]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept the technical nature of the amendments in this grouping, so I support the Minister's amendments.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has gone some way to answering some of my concerns with regard to amendment No. 3. This is not a criticism of the Parliamentary Counsel, as I have been a Member of the House for a while and I understand the legalese that is necessary in the preparation of legislation and the explanatory memorandum, but I found the explanatory memorandum heavy work in this instance. Perhaps the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to ask the Minister a brief supplementary question. I do not doubt what he has assured me to be the case. Like him, I must confidently assuage people's fears and, therefore, ask him the following again. The Minister's amendment No. 3 is a substitute for an almost two-line provision that already exists on page 10 which states: "[T]he carrying out of health research that is the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are on Committee Stage and still have to deal with Report and Final Stages. This is not my stand-alone concern, there is always a body of concern in respect of this type of provision. I ask the Minister and his officials to look at this again to consider if there is anything further they can do in the intervening period until Report Stage. I cannot present a formula off the top of my...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 12, to delete lines 2 to 4. My amendment seeks the deletion of lines 2 to 4 on page 12, which state: "The assigning of an individual health identifier shall not be regarded in any way as indicating, in and of itself, an entitlement to, or eligibility for, the provision of a health service to the individual." I think I indicated on Second Stage that I can...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept that and I understood why it is there in the first place. The Minister will recall the long time that we argued for it and we do not yet have that statement. I had anticipated that the Minister's reply would have referred to legislation yet to present in respect of the basket of care. Now, the Minister is picking it and that was the card I should have played. That was the one I...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 12, to delete lines 5 to 9 and substitute the following:“(4) (a) The Minister shall put in place measures to ensure that an individual’s individual health identifier will be made know to him or her as of right (or, in the case of a deceased individual, to be made know to the individual’s personal representative).”.I have invested...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not to be argumentative but simply to try to understand how we are going to reach a situation whereby the individual health identifier will be of greatest service across the board. How do we intend to disseminate the information in respect of the individual's identifier? We will be holding it on a register. Presumably, the general practitioner network will need to know although I am...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The point I am making is not about tourists, who are entitled to access whatever health service they need. However, unless the IHI system is operating on an international basis, their health history will not be accessible on our database. I presume the information we are talking about here in regard to health histories is part of what is retained and is accessible. If I present at a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I mean no disrespect to the Minister but he has not assuaged my concerns on this issue. The purpose of this amendment is to seek to maximise the potential of the legislation to provide, as I would envision it, the best possible return in the interest of every citizen or anybody presenting to use our health services in the future.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I just want to flag that we will return on Report Stage to some of the issues we have discussed.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Policy (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 134. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made towards implementing the recommendations of the Government policy statement on sectoral economic regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19280/14]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, I am happy to proceed.