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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I raise a disturbing report prepared by HIQA following an investigation into an unnamed centre in the Cork area providing high care, ostensibly, to a small number of children. The report shows that the young people concerned are involved in daily illegal drug use and other criminal activity. I would like to know what assurances the Minister can give that the situation has been properly...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is important that the Minister comments. We are not here to identify the specific setting but it is a HIQA report into an entity that is run by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, which is now directly under the Minister's departmental control. Children at this care centre in the southern region routinely engaged in illegal drug use and criminal activity during frequent absences from the...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept the Minister's assurance that every effort is being employed to ensure the deficiencies highlighted will be properly addressed. I do not think the fact that the number of children has been reduced to one is in itself indicative of everything being addressed. Removing problem children from a setting does not necessarily mean that all measures have been implemented. Leaving aside...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 111. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of all homes and institutions that were excluded from the proposed inquiry into mother and baby homes, including the Magdalene laundries and Westbank; the grounds on which these were excluded; the measures being put in place to ensure survivors of these excluded institutions, now all in their senior years, will be heard,...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I tabled my priority question as part of the lottery system and, strange to relate, have been seeking the first position for a long time and here we are.

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It allows me the opportunity to once again address the issues we addressed during the priority question moment and the focus is again, of course, on those entities and people - that is what this is about - who consider they are currently excluded from the terms of reference for the upcoming work of the commission of investigation. I would like to explore this issue further with the Minister.

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was hoping my anticipation that the Minister would give the same answer would be wrong, but there we are. Given the reference to institutions that were not the subject of previous State address, it is more than sad that the Magdalen laundries will be excluded because of the McAleese report which was a huge disappointment for those who had gone though the Magdalen laundry experience. The...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister will agree, as he has done previously, that this is a last opportunity for many. In his response to me, Deputies Sandra McLellan and Robert Troy who are present he was specific when he afforded us a briefing in advance of the media briefing on Friday a week ago. Those who went through the experience of being in any of the institutions or locations not listed in the terms of...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understand, but the Nursery Rescue Society linked with it is not on the list.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 126. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the high turnover of social workers employed by Tusla, in view of the fact that they are more than twice as likely to resign their positions when compared to other employments in the health and social services generally; the actions being taken to ensure that this does not occur; the further action being taken to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 142. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the 16 boys reportedly being held in adult prisons; when these boys will be placed in more age-appropriate settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2196/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Emigrant Support Services (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 149. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the €1 million fund announced in the budget for diaspora projects; the criteria for funding under the scheme; when the scheme will be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1605/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Policy (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 174. To ask the Taoiseach the progress towards implementation of the recommendations in the Government’s policy statement on economic regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2578/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 392. To ask the Minister for Health the subsistence being paid to those treated medically outside the State; if this will be reinstated given the significant financial costs on patients and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2301/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 401. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure recognition of the genetic mother as mother on the birth certificate of her child; if legislation will ensure that children will have a right to knowledge of both their surrogate and genetic parents; when legislation is likely to be presented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43966/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Incidence (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 468. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide figures on cases of asbestosis that are collated across the State; the incidence of same in County Kildare, particularly in Athy when compared to the national average; if those with asbestosis can avail of health programmes or compensation for their condition; the regulations that are in place to deal with removal of asbestos; if it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for structural changes affecting hospitals and primary care and to address the shortage of residential nursing home places following the record high numbers of patients waiting for admission on trolleys; the numbers of non-urgent elective surgical procedures that have been cancelled and the way will they now be accommodated; his plans to ensure that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My question seeks to establish the Minister's plans to address the ongoing crisis across our acute hospital network and the related issues of the under-provision in primary care and in residential nursing home places and other matters.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While some of the steps outlined by the Minister in his response are indeed required, nevertheless he has not indicated in his reply the importance of providing adequate staffing. I did not note it in the reply he has read into the record of the House. It is very important to recognise that the crisis that has presented in recent weeks across our acute hospital network, is continuing. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While the Minister made reference to increased bed numbers, it is very important to understand that this cannot be achieved with a static complement of nursing staff. It is very important that the crisis we have recently witnessed and which continues, is addressed holistically in the round. It cannot be done simply by the introduction of additional beds on wards. If the same complement of...