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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Expenditure (4 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of funding of dentistry services over the past three years; the percentage that was funded by out-of-pocket payments; and the percentage that was funded by general taxation in each of the said years. [9531/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance (4 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the envisaged basket of care for universal health insurance; what this will include; if an average cost to the public has been calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9532/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (4 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 197. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Migraine Association of Ireland's appeal to Pobal will be granted; when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9425/15]

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Táim sásta deis a fháil caint ar an reachtaíocht thábhachtach seo. De bharr chás a tógadh i gcoinne stádas Bunreachtúil an Achta Um Mí-úsáid Drugaí 1977 rialaigh an chúirt nach raibh sé ag teacht leis an mBunreacht. Ag teacht uaidh sin tá na céadta substaintí a bhíodh mídhleathach dleathach...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understood from the Minister's response to the earlier engagement that the situation now is that adding substances to the banned list requires legislation until such time as the Minister prepares new legislation to restore the opportunity for the Minister of the day to issue a statutory instrument proscribing any new substance. I have sympathy with the case made by Deputy Pringle but my...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to the State for all medications provided under community drugs schemes, the general medical services scheme and the long-term illness scheme for each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9902/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts yet to be filled under A Vision for Change. [9911/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers on waiting lists for counselling in primary care for longer than one week, two weeks, two months and three months. [9912/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the allocation of incontinence pads has been cut or the quality downgraded; if there is a different method of calculating allowance at present; if changing circumstances of disease might be taken into account in allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9957/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 390. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow has been applied for; if it will be granted so that the person might leave hospital and return home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10059/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Responsibilities (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 392. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have a Minister with responsibility for tackling illegal drug abuse in view of the effect this abuse has on communities across the State; if a Minister will be appointed in view of the fact that such a role has existed for the past 20 years; the measures planned and in place to tackle these problems; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 400. To ask the Minister for Health if an investigation is under way into the case of poor care being provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; if recommendations will be made arising out of this investigation; the way these recommendations will be followed up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10104/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 430. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) in County Monaghan, with amelia of the arm will have funding provided to have a prosthetic arm fitted as suitable for the child's needs and after, as necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10392/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 435. To ask the Minister for Health if Sativex® will be included, under the community drugs scheme’s high technical arrangements, in view of fact that the medication has been licensed for the treatment of spasticity in persons with multiple sclerosis where other treatments have failed to provide adequate benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10433/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of application to be included on a panel for special needs assistants; the way a person may apply to become a full-time special needs assessment; and if a position on a panel is a prerequisite. [10009/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the panel. We all want to reach a point at which alcohol is used responsibly across society. I will take a somewhat challenging approach to Professor Murray's presentation, not only to be a devil's advocate but also because I am not convinced of the merit of some of the proposed measures. Professor Murray closed his presentation with "Let us grasp the opportunity to turn off the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My concern is the same as with minimum unit pricing. I would like to have seen a focus on below-cost selling, which we see quite an amount of on the shelves of the bigger supermarkets. Turning off the tap of cheap, harmful alcohol suggests we are looking at a particular cohort of society. It is also reflected in the Professor Murray's sentences:The socially disadvantaged suffer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you, Acting Chairman. I will not revisit the points I made earlier, but I have a concern that the thrust of this critical measure will impact on a particular cohort of people more than it will on others. The person who currently pays €18 or €20 for a bottle of wine, for example, will not be impacted in any serious way. It will be those who buy cheaper alcohol options...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (10 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As we will all be, I expect, wishing the legislation a fair wind, I hope that in 12 to 18 months we will be able to identify the difference outlined by the delegation that has been shown elsewhere. It is all about effectiveness. Any reticence is not about the goal but how we achieve it. I hope that it will be all that the delegation has argued for.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Votáil Uachtaráin) 2014: An Dara Céim [Private Members] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Mar 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Tá an-áthas orm an Bille seo de chuid Shinn Féin a phlé sa Dáil. Léiríonn sé na gnéithe is fearr de chur chuige mo pháirtí. Is iad sin an dóchas, an oscailteacht agus an fáilte roimh shaoránaigh uile na tíre. This Sinn Féin Private Members' Bill represents the very best of that for which the party stands,...