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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State's response is not a reply to the question I posed. In the course of her attendance at a recent meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children, she stated: "The idea that a person with means would pay in the range of €250 to €290 per week for a service that is costing anything up to €1,200 to provide is unsustainable." In a subsequent...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There can be no question but that our senior citizens not only require, but are deserving of our collective societal support in every and any way that we can provide it. The Minister of State made reference to Mr. O'Brien's contribution at the last Oireachtas health committee meeting. He also indicated in his reply that day that we were looking at the 11 weeks rolling out to up to 20 weeks...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In conclusion, it has to be responsive to the needs of people. It cannot operate on a capped basis, telling people to wait until January or September. That is not on and has to change. We also need to take on board the requirement of increased numbers in terms of beds availability. Increasing the capacity of existing long-stay residential provision is required. Responding to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State could share the snippets.

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Bill is welcome and long overdue. I take this opportunity to commend the Minister on its introduction. Much of the Bill is without controversy and has been long awaited. It represents a major change to family law in the State. For many families it will bring legal recognition in line with reality. It is a very substantial piece of legislation which spans 170 sections, relating to the...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Prior to the adjournment of the debate I was speaking about the issue of sibling treatment and was commending to the Minister a revisitation of the arrangements that would allow for treatment resulting in a sibling child from an anonymous donor for a period of three years from enactment, which is what the legislation as currently drafted allows for. However, if the patient has recently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 19. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the roll-out of free general practitioner care for the whole population; and his views on reports that it is to be delayed by three years, or more; the stage the negotiation regarding free general practitioner care for children under six years of age is currently at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7970/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 20. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of progress by the group tasked with an examination of medical card issuing criteria; if the revised criteria for granting medical cards will take account of medical need; when this group will make its recommendations; when these recommendations will be acted upon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7972/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee regarding the introduction of a meningitis B vaccine; when a decision on the recommendation will be taken; if positive, the timeframe within which the vaccine will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7973/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 34. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the massive increase in numbers waiting for surgery, for over a year, in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; if a particular plan has been, or will be, put in place to address these lists in Beaumont, in view of the fact that they include those in chronic pain, along with those waiting for essential spinal surgery; if there is a plan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 38. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of what has been done, and what will be done, to ensure that kidneys donated here, are not sent abroad, due to a lack of infrastructure to harvest and transplant them here; in particular the plan there is to recruit relevant specialists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7974/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 117. To ask the Minister for Health when the public consultation on increasing the availability of epinephrine auto-injectors will commence; as part of the review, his views on increasing the current special authorisations available to the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council emergency first responders, to include the use of epinephrine auto-injectors in an emergency, under the clinical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of National Rare Disease Plan 2014-18: Discussion (26 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome not only the panellists but all our guests. It was a wonderful idea to dedicate a day in the year to international rare diseases because it has allowed us to have hook on which to hang this focus. The focus might not happen only but for it. I thank all my colleagues on the committee for the support annually in this address. In her presentation - I am not making a distinction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of National Rare Disease Plan 2014-18: Discussion (26 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same issue and the response to Senator Jillian van Turnhout that it was intended to incorporate such a facility within the new national paediatrics facility, presumably the St. James's Hospital site, that is the way it is to proceed, but it is not expected to come on stream until 2019 at the earliest. What is to happen in the interim? Can the delegates anticipate that we will at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (3 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the report, Schools Fitness Challenge 2015, that shows that a high number of 15 to 16 year old boys show early onset of heart disease; her plans to counter this; if sport and exercise for primary school children will be further promoted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7696/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 361. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of the Health Service Executive health care workers who despite being on contracts for a certain number of hours per week will get hours deducted if some of the persons they are looking after are taken into respite care or into hospital; if the executive can guarantee a certain amount of hours per week for these health care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Data (3 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on primary care centres to date; the spend that is yet to be made; the international examples upon which the roll-out of primary care centres was based; if there have been difficulties in achieving this, including recruitment of health professionals to posts in these centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8819/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (3 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the subsistence being paid to those medically treated outside the State and to the family members accompanying them; if this will be reinstated in view of the significant financial costs to patients and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8914/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (3 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 393. To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [8952/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (3 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 395. To ask the Minister for Health if a reimbursement, applied for under the drugs payment scheme, will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [8963/15]