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Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle as an deis seo chun ceist fíor-thábhachtach a phlé. It is a very serious matter that nine clinicians in the area of mental health in the Carlow-Kilkenny, south Tipperary area have withdrawn their confidence in the HSE's management of the service. They cited nine suicides in the area over a period of just 17 months, as revealed...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate that the Minister of State is delivering a response on behalf of his colleague, but the critical questions were about whether the Minister of State had acted on the consultants' call to intervene with the HSE to ensure proper investigation of the incidents and whether the review findings would be properly communicated, with appropriate reforms implemented. The Minister of State...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 21. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the situation where at present only three out of seven operating theatres in Cappagh Hospital are being utilised, resulting in unacceptable delays for patients requiring vital surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27039/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 37. To ask the Minister for Health if he will require the Health Service Executive not to proceed with its proposed new implementation plan allegedly under the Haddington Road agreement which would see further reductions in front-line hospital staff numbers, a lower proportion of registered nurse care for older persons regardless of dependency and other measures which will severely impact on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 58. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention been drawn to the fact that St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, has decided to suspend life-saving gastric bypass operations for dangerously obese public patients; the exact number of patients that are on the waiting list for this surgery; the number of patients on the outpatient list to see a specialist; the reasons this surgery has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 59. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the restoration of certain medical cards as decided on 17 June 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27038/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include Fampyra in the GMS and DPS schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27587/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (25 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the PA Consulting Group's report of 30 August 2013 entitled Defining Financial Management: A Finance Operating Model for Health in Ireland; when this report was first presented to the Health Service Executive; when it was first published and with what public notice; where now stands the new operating model and the principles outlined...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same matter, if I can be of assistance-----

Health (General Practitioner Services) Bill 2014: Motion to Instruct Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With reference the earlier mention of time, I am not precious about my time in this instance and I will not be using my full allocation. Having gone through each of the Stages of the Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014, I view this motion as most unsatisfactory. The Minister of State is introducing matters that are wholly unconnected to the address and purpose of this...

Health (General Practitioner Services) Bill 2014: Motion to Instruct Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State has cited a single case that has triggered address of this matter. Was there an outcome to that particular endeavour?

Health (General Practitioner Services) Bill 2014: Motion to Instruct Committee (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State did not respond on two matters I had raised. I asked about a review of the nursing homes support scheme initiated in 2012 which was signalled for completion in 2013. What is the status of that review? The other matter I raised concerned an overview of the financial elements of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009. How have these elements worked in practice?...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understand the thrust of what the Minister is trying to achieve, the referencing to the Competition Act, and it is worthy of our support. It is crucial that such consultation take place. 2 o’clock I welcome the fact that it has finally got under way. It has been awaited for a long time. I wish the exercise every success. Although there is no difference with regard to what is...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have no objection in principle to the thrust of Deputy Denis Naughten's amendment. He proposes something we wanted to see, covering a range of areas. Rather than Departments operating in silo fashion, we should have joined-up Government. It is another practical example of an area with a myriad of benefits. It concerns not only the elimination of those who should not be entitled to what...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support the Bill's passage. However, we are against a very unhappy backdrop in dealing with this matter and it would be wrong of us to let this occasion go by without reflecting on some of the widely shared concerns in regard to medical cards. We are providing for GP-only cards for all children up to the age of six years. Also, we are advised that some 15,300 people who lost their...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We cannot have a body of people, hurt and excluded, who have been doubly hurt by being further excluded, as in the cases to which I referred. I indicated to the Minister of State before any and all of that presented that I would support the introduction of free GP cards for children up to the age of six years as an integral part of a programmed, timeframed introduction of universal...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In confirming my support for-----

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I hear the Ceann Comhairle very clearly.

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In confirming my support for the passage of the Bill I am asking the Minister of State to take on board the appeals I have just made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Adoption in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jun 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I apologise to all our guests but a debate on the Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014 is about the start in two or three minutes in the Dáil and I must cover that legislation. I join the Chairman and my colleagues on the committee in welcoming each of the witnesses here. It has been very helpful. Indeed the witnesses' print submissions are very useful references for all of...