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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister of State reflect on any of the points I made in my opening comments about the thousands of people who have had medical cards withdrawn and who have not ticked a box in the criteria as set out for the restoration process? What about those who applied for discretionary cards during the period when the same criteria were employed by the primary care reimbursement service and...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is the Minister of State's prerogative.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have tabled among the normal health questions a query that would allow the Minister of State to elaborate as I would wish. I was acting leader of my party yesterday in the Dáil and I had the opportunity to put these questions to the Taoiseach. I ask them of the Minister of State today because I did not get the answers I desired. I am still not getting the answers, so what forum is...

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Looking back over my notes on the Bill, I challenged a section of it on Committee Stage and feel equally strongly at this time about the matter. It could be argued that this Bill is a technicality in so far as it seeks to create a single budget for the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive, as against the position heretofore where we had two separate Votes. That is, in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Momentum Programme (24 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 276. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of participants aged 18 to 25 years on the momentum programme in receipt of €160 per week; and the number of participants aged 18-25 years on the momentum programme in receipt of a weekly payment of more than €160 a week. [26792/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (24 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 556. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Services Executive to immediately reverse the decision to suspend lifesaving gastric bypass operations on dangerously obese patients. [26776/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 557. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the care provided to a person (details provided) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26777/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Appointments (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out in full the circumstances in which he appointed a founder and 50% shareholder in a private health consultancy firm as chairperson of the West-North West Hospitals Group, which subsequently awarded a contract to said firm; if the potential conflict of interest was known to him when he appointed the person and, if not, when he became aware of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Appointments (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek a detailed explanation from the Minister for Health on the matter of the appointment of Mr. Noel Daly to the position of chairperson of the West-North West Hospitals Group, despite the clear conflict of interest created by his role and interest in D & F Health Partnership, a private company in which he was then a 50% stakeholder.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Appointments (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a number of questions. Did the Minister know Mr. Daly personally and, if so, for how long? Did he know in June 2012 when he appointed Mr. Daly to the position of chairperson of the West-North West Hospitals Group that he had been the founder, director and joint owner of D & F Health Partnership, with a 50% stake in it? If he did know, why did he appoint him? If he did not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Appointments (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister accept that his reputation is somewhat in question as a result of this appointment? Make no mistake about it, his effort to digress in regard to Sinn Féin's position vis-à-visappointments is the nonsense he usually employs. What is the status of the HSE's internal investigation? What was the nature of the breach of the HSE's national financial regulations in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Appointments (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would have thought within the time available-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ministerial Appointments (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----that the Minister would have the answers with him, rather than inviting me to write to him.

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 6. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the review of ambulance services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27041/14]

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek to establish if the review of the ambulance service currently under way will be comprehensive, including address of the capacity of the service to fulfil its obligations to the public properly.

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I note from the Minister's reply that one of the reviews under way is addressing the capacity of the current service. Without questioning the industry of the people entrusted to deliver the review, I must ask whether they are looking honestly at the capacity of the ambulance service to deliver on a day-to-day basis. Does the Minister agree with the National Ambulance Service Representative...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister chose to focus on only one of the points I raised. I again ask for his view on the case made by the National Ambulance Service Representative Association, the members of which are front-line service providers, on the shortage of personnel, infrastructure and funding. In my own region which comprises counties Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath ambulance service staff are expected...

Other Questions: Medical Card Reviews (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has this question been assigned to a particular grouping?

Other Questions: Medical Card Reviews (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can I ask a supplementary question?