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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 596. To ask the Minister for Health if a magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scan will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [19834/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 608. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the eight therapist posts allocated to County Laois and County Offaly, among 80 posts allocated nationally under progressing disability services, for services for those with disabilities between zero and 18 years of age; the locations where the eight therapists have been placed; the services they offer; the therapists'...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 647. To ask the Minister for Health the areas to which the 80 posts under progressing disability services were allocated; the roles these entailed; the number of these posts that were filled; the number that are to be allocated this year; the location where they will be placed; their roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20018/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 648. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 80 posts allocated under progressing disability services that were located in County Waterford in 2014; the roles these entailed, the number of these posts that were filled in County Waterford; the number to be allocated this year in County Waterford; the location where they will be placed; their roles; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 701. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a database for children born with Down's syndrome; if consideration has been given to the benefit which such information gathering could potentially yield, particularly for the planning of both health and educational services, by providing information on trends in demographics, current service use and future service need; if he is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 710. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of needs referral will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20516/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Reform Implementation (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 747. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that were made during industrial relations discussions in the health sector in relation to pay, hours and practice, over the past four years; the way they differed from the Haddington Road agreement; if it is envisaged that these will be changed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20750/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Curaclam Scoile (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 884. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills conas mar atá ag éirí leis an scéim phíolótach páirt-tumoideachais atá á cur i bhfeidhm faoi láthair ag an tSeirbhís um Fhorbairt Ghairmiúil do Mhúinteoirí i gcomhar leis an gComhairle Náisiúnta Curaclaim agus Measúnachta; cén líon scoileanna,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 885. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant will be assigned to a child (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [20420/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Chairman in welcoming the witnesses and thank them for their contributions and written submissions. I am very conscious, as we all are, of the great pain the families have suffered, but we are also conscious that there are many others who will watch these proceedings either now or perhaps later as the day progresses. We send our sympathy to and express our solidarity with all of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is helpful. Mr. Molloy made the point that it had become apparent to him at an early stage that his was not the only family whose healthy child had died in similar circumstances. How did it become apparent? From what engagement did it become apparent? How did it come to his attention? Mr. Molloy made a point about each new level of management as he progressed from local and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will close with a last couple of points. I thank Ms O'Connor for her contribution and I commend, as I always have, the work of Patient Focus. She listed a number of hospitals throughout the country that had contacted Patient Focus, following the RTE "Prime Time" programme. She added a very important point about which some of us as members of this committee had been concerned heretofore,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is that the answer in identifying the two senior directors? Does Mr. Molloy feel he is not in a position to identify them today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Nevertheless, it is not beyond our gift to establish who they were.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you, Mr. Molloy. Is it possible Ms O'Connor might respond to the questions put to Patient Focus?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We should acknowledge what the witnesses have done and applaud them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My questions and remarks are directed at Mr. O'Brien. However, I would like it to be noted that they apply to everyone in a senior management position in the HSE and it is a shared and collective responsibility. To what specific references, in what one is told is a largely unaltered HIQA report on Portlaoise hospital did Mr. O'Brien object? Does he still hold to those objections? He felt...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Let us look at what the HSE has to say on its own website about itself and the commitment to what one can expect from the HSE. Under the statement "What you can expect" from the HSE regarding dignity and respect, it states, "We treat people with dignity, respect and compassion". I do not believe any of those could be ticked after listening to the case presented this morning. Under safe and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will Mr. O'Brien deal with the other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It comes to the same thing for most of us.