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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Response Times: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...and her colleagues from the National Ambulance Service. I seek a brief clarification. When she shared with us the details on the performance levels within the set response times, she spoke of ECHO and DELTA calls in relation to a response time of 18 minutes and 59 seconds. Perhaps there is a small contradiction here with one of the earlier presentations which spoke of ECHO and DELTA...

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (12 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...that while the long-awaited ban on sunbeds for those under the age of 18, provided for in the Bill before us today, will be welcome, a nationwide sun awareness campaign is essential. I would certainly echo that call. I hope we will not only see this Bill progress but that the other essential messages and measures will also be adopted and employed over the period ahead. Legislation, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to echo some of the points made by Deputy Humphreys. Following the aborted oral hearing in 2010 EirGrid introduced a new methodology of engagement; it was all about the consultation roadmap. That had not applied in the previous engagement with the people in the communities who were to be affected along the Meath, Cavan, Monaghan corridor. Deputy Humphreys makes an excellent point....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I endorse the Chairman's comments. He most certainly speaks for me. I have no doubt he is echoing the views of everyone present. I ask for the Chairman's patience, as we have agreed to raise a couple of additional items in the course of this engagement. I will not be abusive of the time. I will not be able to direct questions to each of our guests, so I thank them all for their oral and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Care Facilities and Inspections: Discussion (11 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...in preparing children for later life. We have all spoken in the committee in the past about the formative years which have such an impact as young people develop, grow up and become young adults. The echoes continue throughout lifetime. Many points have been made in the Minister's contribution and that of Mr. Jeyes. I noted that she mentioned the child and family agency legislation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...which I expect may have presented difficulties in the past, not only in the context of for what we are currently legislating. A number of the contributions made this morning would complement and echo Dr. Boylan's points regarding a wider number of approved locations, other than the 19 designed, extending it to the general hospitals and he also made a case for the approved private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...come July. On the second of the two points, Ms McGuinness made reference to the 24 hour on-site shift. On the top of page 5, her opening statement states that a key issue is the extent - we were echoing what the NCHDs had stated - to which part of the current NCHD workload is more appropriately delivered by other staff. It then states that the HSE will be requiring hospitals to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Discussion with Fibromyalgia Sufferers of Ireland and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland (6 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...bring in our friends from Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland, I suggest that we send separate communications to the HSE and the Minister for Health. These issues are not to be confused. We should echo the seven points which Mr. Maher has outlined. In regard to Ms Mooney's response, the IMO appears before this committee regularly. It can play an important role in this regard. I do not...

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important Bill. I echo the comments of a number of previous speakers, from my own party and others, in commending the credit union movement on its contribution to Irish life and communities right across the island. As outlined by my party colleague and spokesperson on finance, Deputy Pearse Doherty, in his contribution to this debate last week,...

National Children's Hospital: Motion (8 Nov 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...to the regeneration of local business in the vicinity and in the medium term will further encourage the long-awaited regeneration of the largest social housing complexes in Dublin, namely, Dolphin House and St. Teresa’s Gardens. I echo the call on the Minister by my colleague to clarify for what future uses the existing children’s hospital buildings will be used. In...

Accident and Emergency Services (19 Jun 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...the wards if there is not adequate provision of beds to cater to that need? Are we not creating a continuing crisis for people, particularly in accident and emergency departments? This has its echo throughout all hospital systems. I urge the Minister, as he was a voice here over a long period of time and made the case consistently in Opposition, to recognise that, while there are other...

National Disability Strategy: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...confident that people in this sector, many of whom I have met and know, will not cave in now. As Members of this House, we have a responsibility to give expression to their anger and dismay and to echo their appeal to the Minister of State and her colleagues in Government to re-examine their approach to this sector. A fundamental change in direction is required.

Inter-Country Adoption: Statements (26 Jan 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...of placing the child at the centre of the adoption process, with the objective being to place him or her with a suitable family rather than providing a family with a child. This sentiment was echoed in the agreed wording of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children. We proposed that the child's best interests be the foremost consideration in all matters concerning...

Review of Serious Incidents including Deaths of Children in Care: Statements (17 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...cherishing the children of the nation equally, as the Proclamation envisaged. Certainly, it does not represent the State demonstrating a commitment to ensure the best interests of the child. I echo the calls concerning child protection made by Barnardos in its pre-budget submission launched this week and I commend the efforts of those involved. As a previous speaker stated, it is high...

Hospital Services (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...raibh maith agat" to the Minister because, not for the first time when addressing the people of County Monaghan, he has referred to yet another framework document. That phrase will have a serious echo for those familiar with the history of Monaghan General Hospital. The Minister referred to the minor injuries unit offering services between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., but he did not indicate that...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ..., that is not the case with the relatively small number of people about whom we are concerned. Use of the word "detention" is wrong. It is outdated, belongs to a very different era and recalls echoes of an extremely bad past in respect of attitudes to children, mental health and a range of other areas. Thankfully, we have moved on in the context of the language employed in most of the...

Hospital Accommodation (31 May 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...years, the Minister, Deputy Reilly, correctly laid the emphasis on the importance of restoring bed numbers. His answer now suggests that he has taken a completely different position, one that echoes his predecessor. Let there be no mistake about it; this is a very important matter. I welcome the fact that the Minister now accepts the Trolley Watch figures of the INMO. I commend him for...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...what has been described by the Community Midwives Association as "the minute and inflexible conditions attaching to this insurance". It is unobtainable, for instance, if a mother turns 40. We had echoes of that in the outrageous practices and the denial of compensation when horrendous acts were carried out against women by an obstetrician and gynaecologist in my region. The former...

Order of Business. (19 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I object to the guillotine of this matter. The Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill is a very important issue, with all that has emanated from it and with the echoes up to the present time. We object to the guillotine for Members properly to debate what is involved at each stage. The Government is not providing that opportunity. The legislation is important. It does not go far...

Reform of Structures of Government: Motion (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...alone can secure permanence of Government in the willing adhesion of the people. The Sinn Féin Deputies endorse the programme of reform set out in the Labour Party motion. Many of the proposals echo those we have also advanced. The main focus of the reforms in the motion is the accountability of the Government to the Oireachtas and to the people. That accountability has been shredded...