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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek to establish the reasons why a cannabis-based medication, the drug Sativex, is not yet available to persons in this State who suffer from multiple sclerosis. This is despite the fact that a former Minister of State with responsibility for primary care, Deputy Alex White, signed a statutory instrument legalising its use as far back as July 2014. What are the obstacles to its...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As the Minister of State knows, there are approximately 8,000 multiple sclerosis sufferers in Ireland. Two of them are very dear to me, as members of my family. Sativex is already in use in a number of EU countries for the relief of spasm symptoms in multiple sclerosis patients. The availability of this and other cannabis-based treatments has long been sought by MS Ireland, which is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He wishes to record, in the strongest possible terms, his complaint about the non-availability of an ambulance for two-and-a-half hours on that night. He also wishes to record that there were two ambulances parked at the Monaghan ambulance station base - which is located less than three miles from his home - during the period in question. Those are the consequences of the situation that I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Absolutely. Honesty is critically important. The very fact that the Minister is indicating a commitment to ensure that the current provision is significantly enhanced is a statement of recognition that there has been inadequate cover during this considerable period of years. Communities such as mine that have lost all of their acute hospital services with the transfer of same from Monaghan...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 58. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the seriously inadequate ambulance provision, on standby and in service, in County Monaghan and in counties Cavan, Louth and Meath generally; if he accepts that, despite this Deputy highlighting to him in advance the serious lack of ambulance cover across these counties over the Christmas-new year period, there was a total...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek to establish the steps the Minister has taken and intends taking to address the inadequate ambulance provision covering my home county of Monaghan and the neighbouring counties of Cavan, Louth and Meath and to highlight to him once again the questionable practice of extending significant leave to important emergency care providers over the Christmas-new year period with inadequate...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will rely on the facts relating to a case to demonstrate the problem. A constituent has outlined his experience having become ill at home with severe chest pains during Christmas week. Having suffering a previous attack, he called the ambulance service at approximately 8.45 p.m. and was answered promptly by a call attender. The call attender took details and advised that an ambulance was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 72. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the drug Nivolumab, an immunosuppressant drug treatment for cancers that experts have described as a game-changer; if he will license this drug once the clinical trials are completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3936/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 79. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware, and if it is acceptable, that there are approximately 250 children with scoliosis who are waiting for an operation to fix their spine or waiting to see a consultant; that many of these children have been waiting for more than 15 months for vital treatment; how he will ensure that these children who are in chronic pain are treated as soon as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 80. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is negotiating with the drug supplier Vertex, which produces the drug Orkambi, a drug which has been found to significantly improve the lives of cystic fibrosis sufferers, to ensure that the best possible treatment is available to the thousands of sufferers; if he has considered a pan-European Union approach to acquiring this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 81. To ask the Minister for Health why he has not honoured commitments by his predecessor to fund academic appointments to University Hospital Waterford in the context of the reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the south east; if an agreement was entered into in 2013 to fund a number of specific posts at the hospital over an initial five year period; if he will issue a direction in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 91. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his provision of arthritis-specific front-line staff during his period as Minister for Health, including consultants, clinical nurse specialists, advanced nurse practitioners, physiotherapists and occupational therapists; the numbers in situ; if he will add to their number, with a particular focus on addressing the long waiting lists for those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Early Childhood Care Education (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 323. To ask the Minister for Health to review a decision to refuse a person (details supplied) in County Meath preschool assistance hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4041/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 380. To ask the Minister for Health if he has appointed a clinical lead to the national endoscope working group which was established by the Health Service Executive; if he will name the appointee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4328/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 381. To ask the Minister for Health why the target for processing routine colonoscopy patients within 13 weeks, has been revised from 100% to 70%, given the publication of the HSE service plan for 2016,; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4329/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of outsourcing colonoscopy patients who are waiting longer than 12 months for an appointment through the National Treatment Purchase Fund, in each of the years 2011 to 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4330/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 429. To ask the Minister for Health to advise why surgery has been cancelled on six occasions to date for a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan with Down Syndrome; to ensure no further cancellation or delay occurs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4627/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Architectural Qualifications (2 Feb 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the so-called grandfather clause that was to apply to self-taught and long practicing architects; if he will comprehensively and finally address this matter in the interest of those directly affected and before the conclusion of the Dáil Éireann term; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Draft Regulations on the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005: Motion (28 Jan 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Accepting that we have provided for the titles of "optometrist" and "dispensing optician" and in order to get a better sense of the issue, when the Minister equates the title of "optometrist" and the title of "optician", it suggests that there is some difference between the title of "dispensing optician" and the title of "optician". I am not fully acquainted with this issue. The Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Draft Regulations on the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005: Motion (28 Jan 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have no issue with the proposition and I am fully supportive. I thank the Minister for trying to help me understand the difference.