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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am shocked that everybody - the Minister, the Department, the HSE and the Garda Síochána - was aware of serious allegations about conduct in procurement at a major hospital site, in this instance a hospital group, yet nobody had contacted the group in all of that time. I find that incredible.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Four and a half years after taking office and probably weeks from a general election, this Fine Gael-led Government, with the so-called Labour Party in tow, has demonstrated, as no Government before it, that no matter how one dresses it up or who one puts forward to front the health service, without a coherent health policy, the result will be a shambles, and so it is across key areas of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Meabhrán Mínithe (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection an bhfuil aon dul chun cinn déanta maidir leis na meabhráin mhíniúcháin a bheith ar fáil as Gaeilge, ós rud é gur luaigh sí gur mhaith léi go mbeadh fáil orthu 'i nGaeilge ag an am céanna leis an leagan Béarla' ar an Déardaoin 16 Iúl 2011 agus í ag...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Equality Legislation (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 594. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that equality legislation is not being reviewed; if this is a position that will hold for the remainder of this Dáil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30558/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 696. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is the case that a new aftercare allowance will be introduced from August 2015 that will pay €300 weekly per individual care leaver in full-time education being looked after by foster parents; if this represents a cut of €52 per week for those in foster care; his views that this might have a negative effect on care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Negligence Claims (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 721. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the total number of medical malpractice and clinical negligence claims that were filed against all publicly-funded hospitals, including voluntary hospitals, in each year from 2010 to 2014, inclusive; and if he will provide this information by specialty for each year at each of those individual hospitals....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 747. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the principle of informed consent is always adhered to in the administration of vaccines; that any new evidence of risk is fed into the decision-making process to continue with vaccine programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30530/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 750. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds available in public care homes in County Louth, at present, and in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30535/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds available in public care homes, at present, and in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30536/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 901. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public nursing home beds that have closed since the start of the Government's term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31040/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 752. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients currently medically discharged, but without any suitable residential unit to go to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30537/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 756. To ask the Minister for Health the current capacity of nursing training colleges here, by each individual setting; in view of the need for more Irish-trained nurses and midwives in the health system, if it is intended to extend capacity, and if so, by number and location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30559/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 760. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork with attention deficit disorder will be provided a medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30574/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 761. To ask the Minister for Health the number currently availing of a pilot scheme in which participants receive buprenorphine as opposed to methadone; the comparative cost of bought treatments; the comparative risk profile of both medications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30578/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 781. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has a system in place to ensure that all resources such as hospital beds, walkers, chairs, stair lifts and so on that are made available to those living at home are collected when they are no longer required and reissued as suitable; if he will provide details of this system; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 794. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of community intervention teams in place across the State; the institutions they are linked with; the functions currently undertaken and envisaged to be undertaken by same; the number of patients treated by same; if these community intervention teams are public or privately run; if he will provide a breakdown of numbers and various...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 899. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a scheme to replace the motorised transport grant and the mobility allowance scheme; the details of the scheme; when he intends this to be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31030/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Policy Planning (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 879. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department publishes all data available for the purposes of health policy planning; the format and location of where it is published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30927/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 902. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new non-front line positions that have been created in the Health Service Executive since the start of this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31041/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 956. To ask the Minister for Health if a specialised public funded service for adults suffering from eating disorders is in place; if the clinical programmes under the 2013 national service plan in relation to this have been implemented to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31212/15]