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Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Over many years, I have called on this Government and its predecessors to promote awareness of the unacceptability of certain practices in mental health care and to urge that the use of such practices be discouraged. One such practice is the application of electro-convulsive therapy, ECT, on detained persons against their will. That is a very important point. Under the Mental Health Act...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I disagree with Deputy Kelleher in lumping the HSE in with the Minister, the Department of Health and the Government on the issue of the assessment of need and the capacity to operate within budgets. As I well recall it, the HSE sought substantially more than was afforded to it for funding for the service plan for 2015. Its assessment was more in...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would like a clarification please on subhead D and the rest. Are these the actual sums or are noughts not shown?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is not indicated. It is important to point out for the record that the graph detail provided to members does not indicate that those figures are millions of euro.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could the Minister indicate if he has figures on the symphysiotomy redress scheme regarding the total paid out, or committed to be paid, up to this point in time?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On subheads I1, I2, I3 and I4-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would like to ask a comparative question.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Noting the increased provision of 3%, particularly the much stronger base from which subheads I3 and I4 operate, consequently securing a significantly larger supplementary provision for the end of 2015 than subheads I1 and I2, HSE Dublin Mid-Leinster and HSE Dublin North East, did the HSE carry out an exercise to confirm need in each of the four regions in questions, rather than simply...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no specific reference to disability services across the different subheads. Is it possible that within subhead I5 there is additional money for disability services?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: HIQA recommendations are not options. Ultimately, the failure in terms of compliance is going to push everybody into a situation where powers for HIQA or some other entity will have to be realised in order to effect implementation either through oversight or using the bata mór - the big stick - in terms of these improvements, amendments and changes to any physical entity in respect of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is just on the Supplementary Estimate.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was just for clarification. In the Supplementary Estimate to cover the State Claims Agency to the end of this year, there is an almost doubling of the provision as originally anticipated. There is a 97% increase, which is a phenomenal sum. Can the Minister provide the committee with an explanation as to why there is such a significant increase to get us across the line to 31 December?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Good.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Provision of €10 million is made in the budget for 2016 for the roll-out of access to free GP care to those between the ages of six and 12. As the cost of the same service over a year is €39 million, does that reflect the Minister's anticipation that the engagement with the Irish Medical Organisation is unlikely to come to a conclusion before the last quarter of the coming...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No charging for blood tests.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Very briefly - I made reference to it earlier - my concern is that we are not providing expansion and new builds in terms of the public long-term residential care network. There are real concerns at a number of sites around the country that, as the Minister acknowledged in earlier commentary, because of the age profile of many of the buildings in use, which were not purpose-built for their...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have one question on the opening commentary in respect of the British transfer of funding of €65 million. Will the Minister indicate whether we have received it?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That could be something else.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 352. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be scheduled for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 who has been waiting for 16 months as of November 2015. [43551/15]