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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We just want Mr. Jeyes to be on the same page as us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to get some clarification on the response of Mr. Jeyes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: An item has not been responded to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to clarify the outstanding point from my questions to Mr. Jeyes. In his reply to my question regarding a ring-fenced budget for post-leaving and after-care provision, Mr. Jeyes indicated a figure of €16 million. He did not indicate whether there was a ring-fenced figure for social worker training but said he had intended that there would be. Is there currently a ring-fenced...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ebola Virus Outbreak (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 70. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the contingency plans for Ebola in view of the WHO’s statement that Ebola is a public health emergency of international concern; if education of medical staff has occurred; the status of the National Isolation Unit at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin; the travel cautions and checks that have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ebola Virus Outbreak (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to join with Deputy Kelleher in welcoming the Minister, and I wish him well in the responsibilities of his new portfolio. I am seeking to establish what steps have been taken by the Department of Health, the HSE and other Departments, including the Minister's former Department, which clearly have a role in helping to ensure that our population is not subjected to the risk of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ebola Virus Outbreak (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister for his reply. The European Commission has donated some €180 million to help fight the epidemic. The death toll has now exceeded the 3,000 mark and that is just six months after the outbreak first occurred. It would appear from the statistics that there is an increasing incidence of deaths due to Ebola. Over the past fortnight the number of deaths has been much...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ebola Virus Outbreak (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Minister in a position to tell us exactly the capacity of the national isolation unit at the Mater hospital? It is used for a variety of infectious diseases. Has there been any upgrading or preparation for Ebola? It would be an obvious location for the drug I mentioned, ZMapp, if there is any supply in this jurisdiction. On Ebola itself, what steps have been taken to ensure there...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ebola Virus Outbreak (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is training being provided here?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Groups (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 73. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the smaller hospital sites; the steps he will take to establish the real potential of smaller hospitals that have lost critical services over the past decade; in view of the impossible footfall presenting at many of the larger hospital sites, if he is providing serious consideration to the restoration of services to smaller hospitals, thereby...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Groups (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Minister, who has demonstrated some new thinking regarding his new portfolio of responsibilities, if he has had time to form a view or decide on an intent regarding the great and under-utilised resource that is our network of smaller hospital sites across the State. Such hospitals are still in service, though their number has significantly reduced in recent years.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Groups (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister for his reply. I support a policy of having more, rather than fewer, services. As in so many areas in this country we go overboard in following the lead of others in other jurisdictions in comparable matters, and that has been the experience of many people in many reconfigured arrangements currently in place. I could instance several such cases. We have heard today of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Groups (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Minister identifying both of the sites he has just mentioned. I had not intended to refer specifically to any of the hospital sites for fear of leaving one out. The Minister has identified immediately what might be done in relation to University Hospital Limerick. There are many other examples. There is international evidence of increasingly poor outcomes, including...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 86. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the planned extension of free breast screening to women in the 65 to 69 years age bracket; the timeframe now envisaged for its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36543/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 89. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the current health budget deficit; the expectation of the final figure for this year's deficit; the steps he is taking to ensure that this deficit will be met in 2014; the services that the current Government might restrict if the health budget does not increase sufficiently for next year in line with the existing increase and envisioned...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 109. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on developments in Cappagh hospital, Dublin; if he will provide an update on the number of operating theatres being used in comparison to full availability; his views on reports of work activity being severely reduced due to budget restraints (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36541/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract Issues (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 112. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he plans to take to ensure that all hospital consultants are compliant with the terms of their public contract; the extent of serial breaches that he and his Department are aware of by hospital site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36544/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 124. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the review of the agreement with the pharmaceutical companies concluded in late 2012; his expectations for further savings in view of the continuing serious price differences across EU member states; when the review will conclude; if its report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36545/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (30 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 386. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the national hepatitis C strategy; if the funding-neutral elements will be implemented; if funding to fully implement the strategy will be ring-fenced; if the moratorium on recruitment of public sector staff to expand the numbers of specialist nurses will be lifted; and if he will make a statement on the...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The boards are being stuffed.