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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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 965. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the number of nursing and midwife vacancies at each hospital here as of 31 July 2015 or the nearest available date. [31285/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 966. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in voluntary hospitals funded by the Health Service Executive as at 1 July 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. [31286/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 967. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in the Health Service Executive receiving salaries of more than €100,000 as of the end of 2014, broken down between clinical staff and administrative-managerial staff. [31287/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Comharthaí Bóthair (22 Sep 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1671. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé i gceist aici an dea-chleachtas maidir le comharthaí dátheangacha, agus an dá theanga oifigiúla ar cóimhéid le chéile, a mholadh do na Comhairlí Contae nó iad a spreagadh chun an dea-chleachtas sin a úsáid; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina...

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: The Chairman is certainly speaking on behalf of the committee in expressing our collective disappointment that the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group is not coming before us today. I find it absolutely unacceptable. I do not believe that its coming before the joint committee would in any way compromise the investigation that is under way, or indeed any other investigation in matters pertaining...

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: Is there an indication as to when that might be?

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 welcome Mr. Cullen here this afternoon and thank him for his presentation and for his willingness to answer questions. We are told a dossier was presented to the Minister last September that referenced seven hospitals, which were not named, to my best knowledge. I understand a number of those are taxpayer-funded, while some clearly were not. Could Mr. Cullen advise us whether the Beacon...

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: Yes, and that it is, of course, under investigation. Whether one is in the private health business or the public health sector, as are the others before us here today, this is absolutely unacceptable in any shape or form and is a very serious matter. I will conclude on that and I would appreciate Mr. Cullen's responses at the appropriate time.

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 thank Mr. Woods for his address and his colleagues for also attending. Regarding the dossier that we have already referenced and that the Minister received last year in respect of a number of hospitals, it was said at the time and since, most recently in the context of the "Prime Time" programme, that the allegations contained in the dossier were worse than those presented in the...

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 remember what Mr. Woods said a few moments ago. He mentioned the Beacon Hospital.

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 ask the Chairman to allow me to clarify the point-----