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Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He is writing the general election manifesto. Let him work.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: And nothing at all to say about Irish mortgage holders.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Taoiseach a tool of the Central Bank or a Taoiseach for the people?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if a person's address can decide the form of prostatectomy performed in cases of prostatic cancer; if it is the case that robotic assisted radical prostatectomy is available in certain parts of the country; his views that this has better outcomes than other forms of the procedure; his plans to ensure that this procedure is extended across the country; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the average net annual household income of holders of general practitioner visit cards by household size [27924/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the average household size of holders of general practitioner visit cards or medical cards. [27925/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of households that have a medical card or a general practitioner visit card. [27926/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of households with one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten medical cards or general practitioner visit cards. [27927/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 183. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of medical cards or general practitioner visit cards, deriving from an application by a single person living alone; a single person living with family; a married or cohabiting couple; and a lone parent with dependent children. [27928/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to set up a language unit in the main population area of Newbridge and-or Naas in County Kildare, given that the county has one of the highest populations with no language unit and that many families in the Kildare area have children with severe speech and language impairment and have been refused special needs assistants and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (8 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector will receive adequate funding to allow long-term planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27774/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the significant level of discontent, and, in some cases, outright dejection being felt and expressed by victims of the barbaric practice of symphysiotomy, at the unsympathetic and adversarial conduct of the Government-initiated payment scheme established for the ever-decreasing number of aged survivors; if he will undertake to address the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek to draw the Minister's attention to the expressed dissatisfaction of victims of symphysiotomy who have contacted me regarding the conduct of the State's scheme of payment to survivors of this barbaric procedure. I appeal for the Minister's intervention, even at this late stage, to ensure a more compassionate and humane approach is adhered to from this point forward.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Individual claimants, survivors to this day of a barbaric procedure performed on them without their consent or understanding, before, during and, in some cases, after childbirth have been speaking out regarding their personal experience and the experience of other women known to them who have presented before the Government's payment scheme to these victims and have, in their own words, had...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Further to the cases I outlined earlier, Judge Clarke has dismissed claims regarding urinary incontinence as a direct consequence of the invasive procedure, arguing that it is just as likely to be a product of the ageing process, and has disputed claims of mental ill-health resulting from symphysiotomy. I do not know anyone else who would dismiss victims' claims of depression, anguish and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister undertake to check them?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (9 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister undertake to check them?

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (9 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 13. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding was cut under the general practitioner contract for the insertion of contraceptive medical devices for medical card patients, with the resultant hardship this has caused; if he will undertake to restore this funding support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27599/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (9 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 22. To ask the Minister for Health his awareness of the crisis across the nursing home sector regarding the recruitment of nurses; the steps he is taking to ensure there are adequate nurses available to take up vacant post opportunities as they arise, including recruiting nurses from overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27597/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 52. To ask the Minister for Health the most up-to-date figures for general practitioner sign up for the roll-out of free general practitioner access for all children up to six years of age by county and by Dáil constituency, showing the total number of general practitioners in practice in each case; if his plans to encourage and secure greater sign-up and participation include the...