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Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The proposition is very flawed for a Bill that has such import in terms of how it will impact on families and individuals throughout the length and breadth of this State. We are talking about providing for speaking time tomorrow. This is huge legislation and people are watching this with great interest. It is a fact of life that the Friday sittings will only apply to those who are actually...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Today we see the Water Services Bill 2014, An Bille um Sheirbhísí Uisce 2014, sponsored by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government before the House. That the Government is still struggling to accept the reality that the people have rejected the proposed water charges and the current model of Uisce Éireann almost beggars belief. The hundreds of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Deep Brain Tissue Treatment: Health Service Executive (4 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome Dr. O'Connell, Ms Fitzgerald and Dr. Carroll. We recall that they were unable to join us at this happy committee event because only a short number of weeks ago they were summoned by a less happy committee of this institution - just to clarify, I am referring to the Committee of Public Accounts. We are glad that they are able to join us here today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Deep Brain Tissue Treatment: Health Service Executive (4 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As Deputy Byrne noted when she was in the Chair, we had a very useful and informative engagement with representatives North and South and indeed with a sufferer with Parkinson's disease who has had DBS and whose testimony was powerful. Dr. O'Connell speaks of the costs of providing the service in Ireland. My head works in an all-island dimension and I was saying, "No, that can't be right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Deep Brain Tissue Treatment: Health Service Executive (4 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Dr. O'Connell for his responses and for the indication of a positive disposition to the whole project. In relation to the additional personnel needed, the number really is very small. What was identified by the team in Belfast was a single nurse there, a deep brain stimulation, DBS, nurse specialist and one here. The remark was made that the money is not there. I would not expect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Deep Brain Tissue Treatment: Health Service Executive (4 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is very important that the health services are at least on the same page - which I accept is the case - but I would also appreciate if they were at the same pace, because not only are we most certainly committed to co-operation in this regard, but we see all-island co-operation on health care delivery as a hugely important area which is under-explored in so many ways. This is an...

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Must our voiceless in care depend on whistleblowers, unannounced HIQA inspections and RTE's "Prime Time" programme to expose the wholly unacceptable behaviour of some who work in our care homes and facilities? I know at first hand the great work that so many employed in these settings perform. I have a brother with an intellectual disability in a HSE care home. This drip, drip exposé...

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach has made the point about Áras Attracta and other settings. It is important as that is at the core of the issue and this is not only about Áras Attracta. This is not an isolated incident and there has been a range of other settings exposed for malpractice over these years. The critical matter is not just the address of the individual care home setting, there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Data (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 207. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the current status of Irish trade with Iran; the extent of Irish Government and its agencies' efforts to explore and promote Irish goods and services in contacts with the Iranian authorities; his plans to establish a trade mission to Iran; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47250/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Missions (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of Irish trade with Iran; the extent of Irish Government and its agencies' efforts to explore and promote Irish goods and services in contacts with the Iranian authorities; his plans to establish a trade mission to Iran; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47251/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Expenditure (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the details of general maintenance and upkeep of hospitals; if there is a specific budget provided for this; if he will provide details of this spend in paediatric hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46852/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the respite care available to families caring for older persons in County Monaghan; if those availing of the service must travel to County Cavan in any cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47130/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills where families had previously relied on the medical card for school transportation purposes for children; if these families will be in a position to avail of the free service if a parent has been granted a medical card but a child has not; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47145/14]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was somewhat surprised at the level of Supplementary Estimate being sought as announced towards the end of last week in that it is only €680 million rather than the amount speculated. I have no issue in agreeing to the Supplementary Estimate but I do have some specific questions for the Minister. First, the Minister in his concluding remarks accepted that this Supplementary Estimate...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister not respond?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a question on the primary care reimbursement service and the position in respect of medical cards. I have been addressing some of the fallout of what I regard as a system that is not really running as it should in terms of tight performance. I have further evidence of wholly unacceptable and contradictory emissions coming from the PCRS in respect of a case I recently brought to the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate Deputy Healy raising this issue. The committee was of one voice on the last occasion it engaged with the PCRS team in Finglas. That was the key appeal we made. It is not a case of us always being against it. We are here to try to be a practical bridge to a resolution or at least to get an answer, so we can explain to those who see us as a buffer in this situation. We have a...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I concur with Deputy Kelleher and I record my support for the amendment. On Committee Stage I indicated that not only was I happy to acknowledge but I fully understood the common sense of the proposition. I believe that a lifetime penalty for someone joining a private insurance arrangement after the age of 35 is punitive. The amendment seeks after a period of ten years to remove the...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In his reply the Minister spoke about no urgency of address, and suggested we have up to ten years at least to address the substantive argument in Deputy Kelleher's amendment. This is not the case. People are not prepared to buy a pig in a poke. I am no advocate for private health insurance, as I have made very clear time after time, and nor am I a supporter of universal health insurance....

Palestine: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A cheann chomhairle, fáiltím roimh an deis caint ar an ábhar iontach tábhachtach seo. Tá an-áthas orm go bhfuil an Rialtas tar eis glacadh leis an rún. I welcome the Government's support for the motion. I also welcome last night's contribution by the Minister of State with responsibility for European Affairs, Deputy Dara Murphy, when he said: "It has been...