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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Chairman to be patient with me. I am talking about what I have experienced in my role as an advocate. I would like to know whether each of the delegates agrees that there is a need for this form of advocacy. We cannot work on the sole basis of the goodwill that may be present. There should be a statutory obligation on people in positions of responsibility across hospital,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This has to be confronted. As we cannot assume goodwill will always be present, I suggest we must make certain requirements of those in these roles.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (25 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a serious incident that resulted in the death of a person (details supplied) in Celbridge in County Kildare, where an ambulance was sent from St. James's Hospital in Dublin as opposed to from Maynooth in County Kildare and took 45 minutes to reach the injured person; the reason the ambulance was sent from St. James's Hospital as opposed to...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister of State for attending here. It is the second time we have had the opportunity to address this matter in this House today. I note in the closing sentence of the opening remark the reference to, "As part of a joined-up interagency approach". I am sure the Minister of State will have had experiences similar to mine in this regard, that the thinking is not always as...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State will recall that I raised this matter with her earlier today in the course of the consideration of disability issues by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children. She may not have come across the detail of it at that time. I was unable to await her response owing to the clash with Second Stage debate on the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill dealing with...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: According to the most recent statistics available for suicide in the State, 459 persons - 368 males and 91 females - took their own lives in 2014. During the same period there were 62 undetermined deaths which in the North and other countries would be normally counted as suicides. At the same time, around 300 citizens in the North die each year by suicide. It is generally accepted that the...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Dutch introduced their model of private-public health care, with private insurance companies competing to access public health services in 2006. By 2011 the cost of an ever reducing basket of services had increased by almost 10%, with the cost of unincluded and uncovered services increasing by 50%. Mr. Dutrée raised the prospect of health care costs in the Netherlands doubling over...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Look at what she believes.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015 provides for the introduction of risk equalisation fund payments to health insurers for hospital day case in-patient admissions redefining the heretofore hospital bed utilisation credit, now to be known as the hospital utilisation credit, providing for a €30 payment for day cases and continuing the €90 payment for in-patient admissions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Disability Issues Update: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and her colleagues. In the area of disabilities, in particular, children with disabilities, there are so many issues we could address. I would like to highlight a number of them, some of which the Minister of State referenced in her opening remarks, including the 190,000 overnight stays in respite residential support centres. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Disability Issues Update: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I apologise for interrupting but Second Stage of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015 is commencing in the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Disability Issues Update: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sorry that I cannot remain in order to hear the Minister of State's responses. I thank for them in advance. My colleague will note and advise me of them afterwards.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to address the widely reported practice of general practitioners charging medical card holders for blood tests; if he will clarify whether or not a medical card holder can be refunded by his Department or by the Health Service Executive for such a charge; if so, how this can be done; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (17 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 374. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be notified by Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin in Dublin 12 of a date for a cardiac catheterisation in order to ascertain the person's suitability for cardiac surgery. [40164/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (17 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 384. To ask the Minister for Health further to the response to Parliamentary Question No. 965 of 22 September 2015, which did not include the number of nursing and midwife vacancies by hospital in tabular form, if he will provide these numbers by hospital for each month in 2015 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40247/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Infant Mental Health: Discussion (12 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join with you, Chairman, in welcoming our panel before us this morning. I might be a little bit provocative in teasing out some of the points made by Professor Nugent. I very much appreciate the thrust of all that has been outlined both by Professor Nugent and Ms Mitchell. However, what strikes me is that it is almost like a fire brigade response. It is a case of focussing where the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Infant Mental Health: Discussion (12 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could you be a wee bit kinder to me just for a moment, Chairman? I will take all the time of my colleagues who are no longer present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Infant Mental Health: Discussion (12 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I beg your pardon, Chairman. I will leave that point with Professor Nugent. I am very interested to hear how he will address it. I will move on to Ms Mitchell's contribution. I am sorry to have been a little long on the first point. I wish to focus on the gaps that exist within the infant mental health area. The incidence of stopping referrals and appointments in CAMHS in Waterford,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Challenges facing Camphill Communities of Ireland: Discussion (12 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To inject a little more balance, I reflect on my own personal exposure to the work of the Camphill community at the Ballybay location in my constituency and home county. I have had the opportunity to engage with Mr. Joe Lynch previously, including at Ballybay, and I know personally and from my own attendance on a number of occasions at the special days that it is a fantastic facility. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Challenges facing Camphill Communities of Ireland: Discussion (12 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have chosen to highlight a number of the points Mr. Lynch made in his presentation. He said that individual residents consider Camphill as home. There can be no question about that. Among those whom I have met, there is no doubt of that. We are talking about the homes of people with special needs. What that would mean in terms of the individual human beings is inconceivable. We talk...