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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (21 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the dental scheme for medical card holders entitles them to two fillings per year, regardless of whether the tooth or teeth requiring fillings were previously filled, in view of the fact that patients have been informed by some dentists that fillings for teeth previously filled are not covered under the scheme. [15378/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (21 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 465. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment with a urologist will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [15386/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (21 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 489. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of doctors to population; the ratio of acute hospital beds per person; the number of specialists and the amount of money invested in primary care; the way this compares with other European Union states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15499/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 523. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of patients on waiting lists for outpatient appointments; inpatient procedures; and any other lists, in hospitals in County Galway and County Mayo, who have been waiting for six months, one year, two years and over two years, broken down by specialty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15641/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (21 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 647. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process and criteria employed to decide the county, council by county, and council allocation from the social Housing Fund announced on 1 April 2015; the reason for the significant inter-county / council variation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15746/15]

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Agus oibrithe Dunnes Stores ag seasamh an fhóid, tá deis againn breathnú ar chás gach oibrí in Éirinn. Tá fadhb mhór againn in Éirinn, Thuaidh agus Theas.Is cuid iontach tábhachtach d'Eire cothrom a chur ar fáil pá cothrom a thabhairt don lucht oibre. Níl sin ag tarlú faoi láthair. This State, the Twenty-six Counties...

Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is what we got for donkey's years.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There was overcrowding despite the reduced numbers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm from where the minimum 2% to 2.5% reduction in hospital budgets this year is envisaged to come; if he will address the deficit in acute services, as outlined in the Health Service Executive's most recent performance review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14938/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek to establish from the Minister how the acute hospital network is to function with what is described in the health service performance report for January as a minimum of a 2% to 2.5% reduction in the financial provision for the current year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: After saying so much the Minister finally acknowledged that the acute hospital network was expected to function within a reduction of the order of what he stated was 2%, but it was stated in the health service performance report for January that at a minimum the reduction would be 2% to 2.5%. We already know that the acute hospital network is facing severe resource difficulties. Last year...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When it comes to selectivity, the Minister is the ace player, about which there can be no question. He spoke about fewer people presenting, but we have not forgotten what January was like. As I understand it, it was a crisis time with the numbers presenting.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am most curious to see the statistics to which the Minister referred.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The fact of the matter is that there was a crisis period through January, February and into early March. The report to which I referred states very clearly that while a more realistic budget for acute services was provided in 2015, it was not possible to provide a budget at the full level of the 2014 spend. The Minister is very happy to speak in terms of what was allocated at the outset of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I beg your pardon. These are the facts and I want to know what the Minister will do about them. Will he ensure the allocation of proper resources?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Drug Treatment Programmes (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is an area of major concern, yet it is the first Government in, I understand, 21 years where we have not had a designated Minister with specific responsibility for drugs. There has been a 37% cut to drugs services over the past five years, and this is showing itself in the strain experienced by people entrusted with the delivery of drug addiction services. They have to cope with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Drug Treatment Programmes (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister is correct when he refers to small amounts of money. What we need, given the crisis we face with drug addiction, is not the proposition that we add to the already chaotic situation additional areas of responsibility, such as alcohol or cannabis. We need to properly resource the area, if we are to take on board these other critical areas and not add to the impossible situation...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Drug Treatment Programmes (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that the Health Service Executive recruitment embargo has resulted in a crisis in the executive's counselling services and dangerously high caseloads; that certain individual addiction counsellors in the executive working in the Dublin region are tasked with over 200 client cases; that no new counsellors have been appointed in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Drug Treatment Programmes (16 Apr 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I again point to the fact that there is no designated Minister with responsibility for dealing with the issue of drug abuse and seek to highlight the level of cutbacks in drug addiction services in the past five years, the HSE recruitment and replacement embargo, the reduction in the number of women accessing addiction services, the embargo on the recruitment of addiction counsellors in the...