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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Proposals (14 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1020. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions undertaken by his Department to date to meet the requirements of the European Union’s Fourth Railway Package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1613/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Developing a National Strategy for Coeliac Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the panel here this morning. If the figure is as high as nine out of ten, they would be as well advised that the reasons for opting for gluten free products are not diet related. There are a number of people taking gluten free products who are not coeliacs, and for the wrong reasons. They might be surprised to know that it may not contribute in the way they expect. I am the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Developing a National Strategy for Coeliac Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will Professor Kennedy comment on the current provision in terms of coeliac clinics? What in his view is the optimum situation towards which we should be working?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could the Vice Chairman give our guests an idea of the time it will take? Are we talking about 12 to 15 minutes maximum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is a reasonable cup of coffee available on the next floor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I joint the Vice Chairman in welcoming the panel this morning. We have a number of sessions here today, but the written and oral submissions Ms Towey and Dr. Pender have made have had a huge impact, certainly on me personally and, I have no doubt, on my colleagues on the committee. It does not take a great deal of analysis for us to realise just how devastating this diagnosis must be. All...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Dr. Pender indicated there is no service for Huntington’s disease sufferers in Cork. Is there a service in Galway? What services exist in Dublin apart from Beaumont and Bloomfield? I take it there is no building for the association either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the opportunity to address these matters to the Minister and to the director general of the HSE in this, the commencement week of the resumed Dáil. The figures from the INMO trolley count for today, 15 January 2015, were provided to me before the commencement of the meeting. The Minister referred to a trolley count of 244, but he failed to also mention that there were 72...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before Mr. O'Brien comes in, would the Minister comment on the emergency task force meeting yesterday, including what measures he was in agreement should be pursued in the immediacy? While I reflected particularly on the issue of recruitment, I also put forward the notion of localised recruitment as an interim measure. Perhaps the Minister would comment on whether he has considered this or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They are still friends so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is great. We are impressed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to ask about the recruitment exercise. The Minister has dismissed any prospect of an intervention on this matter in the past. There are difficulties recruiting nursing staff with the significant hike in the registration fees in recent years. It is quite significant and is having a very negative impact on the existing complement of nursing staff, never mind those we might recruit. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In fairness, we are here every day like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking how quickly the deferred elective procedures will be rescheduled. How many elective procedures have been deferred as a consequence of the recent crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept, first of all, that the introduction of additional beds without the required nursing supports will not function. It will only make a bad situation worse. I have heard the reply concerning a recruitment project that will concentrate on the neighbouring island to, hopefully, encourage the return of nurses who have left. In the interim the situation maintains and could, as Mr....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 107. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of all homes and institutions that were excluded from the proposed inquiry into mother and baby homes, including the Magdalene laundries and Westbank, County Wicklow; the grounds on which they were excluded; the measures being put in place to ensure that survivors of these excluded institutions, now all in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to establish the number of mother and baby homes and similar institutions that have not been included in the terms of reference of the new commission of investigation. I am keen to receive the full list from the Minister. I would like to know why certain institutions have been excluded. Moreover, I would like to receive an assurance that those who have gone through the harrowing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I acknowledge the effort invested in preparation for the launch of the commission of inquiry, but the Minister has not replied to the question asked and I am keen to establish the reason. The Minister's answer does not in any way shed light on it. I am deeply concerned about the exclusion of Avoca House in County Wicklow; Braemor House in County Cork; St. Gerard's, Herbert Avenue; St....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have to try my best and take the positives from what the Minister said, namely, that people are not being excluded if an entity has not been named. I hope that will prove to be the case. I ask the Minister to make his response and wishes in that regard patently and abundantly clear to the commission of investigation membership. Child trafficking is not a new phenomenon. We know from...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Children in Care (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 110. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of the revelations that a care home run by Tusla for teenagers was found to contain drug paraphernalia; his plans to ensure that teenagers in such homes may be guaranteed safe environments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2374/15]