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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister did not address my question at all. I understand he is not the author of what he has just read, but, not only in the question I posed to him but also in the brief introduction I delivered orally, I asked why a key component of the plan announced by the former Minister in respect of the Government's policy on health, namely, the patient safety authority, had been dropped. It was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister is a very confused holder of his portfolio this morning. He should play back what he has just said. I fully accept that a patient advocacy agency is a requirement and the subject of one of the recommendations made in the Portlaoise hospital report. I also agree that it should be independent of the HSE. The current position where Patient Focus has performed this role and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the Minister allows me to answer, perhaps he might learn a little. The point is - the Minister knows it as well as any other voice in this House - that HIQA's reports, findings and recommendations are continuously ignored by the HSE. The Minister's Department is not playing the role it should have been in insisting on recommendations being acted on and implemented. We have report after...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Government decided to drop plans by the former Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, to establish a patient safety authority and who described the proposal as a critical part of any new health service, stating that it must be underpinned by legislation; his views that a patient advocacy agency, as is now suggested, would operate to complement to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Despite the fact that the former Minister, Deputy Reilly, described the commitment in the coalition programme for Government to establish a patient safety authority as a critical part of any new health service, why did An Taoiseach announce in October 2014 that the Government was not proceeding to establish a patient safety authority on a statutory basis, opting instead for a patient advocacy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recognition of Deafblindness as Distinct Disability: Discussion (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Acting Chairman in welcoming each of the delegates whom I thank sincerely for their contribution. I also thank those who have journeyed with them in support and are sitting in the Visitors Gallery where I hope they are comfortable. There is no question that the contributions of Ms Brill, Ms English and Dr. Cummings have challenged us all as members and touched us all as human...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recognition of Deafblindness as Distinct Disability: Discussion (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The census.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Recognition of Deafblindness as Distinct Disability: Discussion (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Medical card holders should have access to upgraded devices.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Carers Strategy Implementation (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 31. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reason that of the national carers strategy's 42 objectives, only one objective has been achieved to date, with 19 showing only initial progress, ten showing no progress and, most worryingly, eight having regressed; whether the 19% cut to the respite care grant in budget 2012 will now be reversed; if the halving of funding for housing grant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 45. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the case of an Irish citizen (details supplied), a cancer victim whose surgery here was not a success and who has opted for alternative treatment in a medical centre overseas; if he will, in recognition of the serious situation applying for this person and of the great generosity of this person's adopted community (details supplied) in County...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 46. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the implementation of the national positive ageing strategy which was published on 24 April 2013, but on which there has been little sign of progress since, given that work on developing the original strategy began in 2007 and older persons have been waiting more than eight years for progress on this issue; whether an implementation plan to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 54. To ask the Minister for Health his proposals for service users with severe physical and intellectual disabilities who have reached 18 years of age and are in their last year of school for their transition to adult services; whether it is the case that despite the date of transition from one service to another being known far in advance, there has been no joined-up planning for services...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Provision (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 118. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive an appointment for orthodontic surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21072/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 123. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive an appointment for orthopaedic surgery at Cappagh Hospital, Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21160/15]

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am not shocked, but I am deeply saddened that the Government has decided and will force through its decision by weight of numbers to sell the State's stake in what has always been to so many, me included, the national airline. Shame on Fine Gael but even greater shame on the Labour Party for this. We are told the Government decided to sell our Aer Lingus shareholding because the offer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (27 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 152. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding of a medical device (details supplied); his plans to include it on the long-term illness scheme or primary care reimbursement scheme; the additional cost which would be incurred from funding this product; his plans to consider co-payment for the product; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20970/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (27 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of children (details supplied) in County Meath; the options available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21053/15]

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Deputy will follow me with five minutes, that is correct. The Private Members' business before us this evening deals with the harrowing and deeply upsetting cases that we have heard of over the past number of weeks and also relates to other cases going back, in some instances, years and decades. Táthar tar éis go leor cainte a dhéanamh le tamall ar imeachtaí...

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Offices (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I share the fear of my colleagues that we are tilting at windmills. The Minister's reply is of the same construct as the responses we have received for a period of months. I can only ask her whether there is any midway position that can be arrived at. Is there anything else she, in her position as Minister with responsibility for the Department of Social Protection, can do to demonstrate...

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Offices (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, for taking this Topical Issue. The announcement that the offices of the Department of Social Protection in Ballybay are to be relocated elsewhere in the county has been a devastating blow to the morale of the people of Ballybay and the economy of this mid-Monaghan town and its hinterland. As voices across...