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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Expenditure (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the provision of primary dental care services; how they are funded; the costs to the general public; the procedures covered by medical cards; the cost for providing free at-the-point-of-care dental care to all citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19431/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 318. To ask the Minister for Health the current provision for radiation oncology, and other cancer services, by location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19432/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the overall percentage of health spend spent on mental health in 2014; the estimate for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19433/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 320. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the overall number of general practitioners; the number training each year at each level; the way Ireland's ratio of general practitioners to 1,000 patients compares internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19434/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 321. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of areas that have been unable to attract a full-time general practitioner for periods of more than three months over the past four years; if these posts are filled with locum or agency staff; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19435/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 322. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the rural practice allowance; the amount this will cost; the criteria this is based on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19436/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 323. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the rural practice allowance to general practitioners who hold general medical service contracts, and practice in a centre with a population lower than 700 persons, as opposed to the current 500 person limit, and where there is no town with a population of 2,000 persons, as opposed to the current limit of 1,500 persons or more,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the cost for the general practitioner based Heart Watch and Diabetes Watch programmes for the past three years, per year; the number of patients covered; if he will consider introducing such schemes for the entire population; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19438/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers on waiting lists not seen by the child and adolescent mental health service within three months, each year, for the past three years; the make-up of service teams; the cost of same, per year; the number of patients that teams see, per year; the overall number of patients that are seen by teams at present; the overall numbers of staff and teams...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 344. To ask the Minister for Health if a care plan and course of speech and language therapy will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17. [19552/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the health care records archived library; the institutions whose records are stored in that library; and the way persons can access their medical records stored in that library. [19638/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the expected date by which the Health Service Executive medical workforce planning project (details supplied) will be concluded, and the respective workforce plans published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19717/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Chairman in welcoming the witnesses and thank them for their contributions and written submissions. I am very conscious, as we all are, of the great pain the families have suffered, but we are also conscious that there are many others who will watch these proceedings either now or perhaps later as the day progresses. We send our sympathy to and express our solidarity with all of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is helpful. Mr. Molloy made the point that it had become apparent to him at an early stage that his was not the only family whose healthy child had died in similar circumstances. How did it become apparent? From what engagement did it become apparent? How did it come to his attention? Mr. Molloy made a point about each new level of management as he progressed from local and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will close with a last couple of points. I thank Ms O'Connor for her contribution and I commend, as I always have, the work of Patient Focus. She listed a number of hospitals throughout the country that had contacted Patient Focus, following the RTE "Prime Time" programme. She added a very important point about which some of us as members of this committee had been concerned heretofore,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is that the answer in identifying the two senior directors? Does Mr. Molloy feel he is not in a position to identify them today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Nevertheless, it is not beyond our gift to establish who they were.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you, Mr. Molloy. Is it possible Ms O'Connor might respond to the questions put to Patient Focus?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We should acknowledge what the witnesses have done and applaud them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My questions and remarks are directed at Mr. O'Brien. However, I would like it to be noted that they apply to everyone in a senior management position in the HSE and it is a shared and collective responsibility. To what specific references, in what one is told is a largely unaltered HIQA report on Portlaoise hospital did Mr. O'Brien object? Does he still hold to those objections? He felt...