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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Government decided to drop plans by the former Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, to establish a patient safety authority and who described the proposal as a critical part of any new health service, stating that it must be underpinned by legislation; his views that a patient advocacy agency, as is now suggested, would operate to complement to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Despite the fact that the former Minister, Deputy Reilly, described the commitment in the coalition programme for Government to establish a patient safety authority as a critical part of any new health service, why did An Taoiseach announce in October 2014 that the Government was not proceeding to establish a patient safety authority on a statutory basis, opting instead for a patient advocacy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister did not address my question at all. I understand he is not the author of what he has just read, but, not only in the question I posed to him but also in the brief introduction I delivered orally, I asked why a key component of the plan announced by the former Minister in respect of the Government's policy on health, namely, the patient safety authority, had been dropped. It was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister is a very confused holder of his portfolio this morning. He should play back what he has just said. I fully accept that a patient advocacy agency is a requirement and the subject of one of the recommendations made in the Portlaoise hospital report. I also agree that it should be independent of the HSE. The current position where Patient Focus has performed this role and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the Minister allows me to answer, perhaps he might learn a little. The point is - the Minister knows it as well as any other voice in this House - that HIQA's reports, findings and recommendations are continuously ignored by the HSE. The Minister's Department is not playing the role it should have been in insisting on recommendations being acted on and implemented. We have report after...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of all public hospitals using private facilities to provide treatment for those on waiting lists; the number of cases that have been treated in this manner; the cost of same; the locations where it has taken place; if potential conflicts of interest have been identified or investigated; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek details of all known public hospital referrals to private hospitals and so-called private addresses on the same or adjoining facilities and ask the Minister if he sees potential for abuse in such arrangements.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the context of this question, have potential conflicts of interest been identified or investigated, to the Minister's knowledge? Does he agree that a system where such referrals are allowed is open to abuse and presents a potential conflict of interest, at the very least? Given that practitioners are being paid in these instances a second time for work they are already contracted to do...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My concerns have been sharpened in the recent past - not for the first time in my political experience - by actual cases that have been presented to me where people either do not have private health insurance or their plan is inadequate to cover the cost of the procedure they need and they are being told about inordinate waiting times. At the same time, however, they are being pushed into...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is time the Minister and the Department faced it head on.

Other Questions: Health Services Reports (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 11. To ask the Minister for Health the position on the second investigation into the tragic loss of baby Jamie Flynn and other cases of concern, including the loss of another newborn baby on 12 May at or following birth at the maternity unit at Cavan General Hospital; if he will provide details of the persons who have been engaged to carry out each of the investigations in train; when he...

Other Questions: Health Services Reports (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek an update on the four investigations into or reviews established of the loss of newborn babies at Cavan General Hospital in the past 13 months. Who carried them out? Has the Minister intervened, or will he intervene, to ensure those entrusted with the work will give sufficiently of their time to allow for the earliest possible conclusion of their investigations or inquiries and...

Other Questions: Health Services Reports (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Minister in extending my continuing sympathy to the families of the tragic babies at Cavan General Hospital. Although I do not know who has been given responsibility for the 2014 reviews, I know the four names of those entrusted with the second investigation review of the tragic loss of baby Jamie Flynn. The information has been publicised. Will the Minister tell us who is...

Other Questions: Health Services Reports (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister furnish them to me separately?

Other Questions: Health Services Reports (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister should consult as he pleases.

Other Questions: Health Services Reports (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I cannot understand why there would be a different opinion. One is against another.

Other Questions: Health Services Reports (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, it would not. There is no analogy.

Other Questions: Health Services Reports (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It merits consideration, whether in terms of people who are retired or in other circumstances. We need an expeditious review and a report at the earliest opportunity so that we can act on the recommendations. That is crucial for re-establishing public confidence. It is in the interest not only of the families who have been bereaved and the wider catchment of the maternity unit in Cavan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Carers Strategy Implementation (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 31. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reason that of the national carers strategy's 42 objectives, only one objective has been achieved to date, with 19 showing only initial progress, ten showing no progress and, most worryingly, eight having regressed; whether the 19% cut to the respite care grant in budget 2012 will now be reversed; if the halving of funding for housing grant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 45. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the case of an Irish citizen (details supplied), a cancer victim whose surgery here was not a success and who has opted for alternative treatment in a medical centre overseas; if he will, in recognition of the serious situation applying for this person and of the great generosity of this person's adopted community (details supplied) in County...