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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of National Rare Disease Plan 2014-18: Discussion (26 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome not only the panellists but all our guests. It was a wonderful idea to dedicate a day in the year to international rare diseases because it has allowed us to have hook on which to hang this focus. The focus might not happen only but for it. I thank all my colleagues on the committee for the support annually in this address. In her presentation - I am not making a distinction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of National Rare Disease Plan 2014-18: Discussion (26 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same issue and the response to Senator Jillian van Turnhout that it was intended to incorporate such a facility within the new national paediatrics facility, presumably the St. James's Hospital site, that is the way it is to proceed, but it is not expected to come on stream until 2019 at the earliest. What is to happen in the interim? Can the delegates anticipate that we will at...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Prior to the adjournment of the debate I was speaking about the issue of sibling treatment and was commending to the Minister a revisitation of the arrangements that would allow for treatment resulting in a sibling child from an anonymous donor for a period of three years from enactment, which is what the legislation as currently drafted allows for. However, if the patient has recently...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Bill is welcome and long overdue. I take this opportunity to commend the Minister on its introduction. Much of the Bill is without controversy and has been long awaited. It represents a major change to family law in the State. For many families it will bring legal recognition in line with reality. It is a very substantial piece of legislation which spans 170 sections, relating to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There can be no question but that our senior citizens not only require, but are deserving of our collective societal support in every and any way that we can provide it. The Minister of State made reference to Mr. O'Brien's contribution at the last Oireachtas health committee meeting. He also indicated in his reply that day that we were looking at the 11 weeks rolling out to up to 20 weeks...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In conclusion, it has to be responsive to the needs of people. It cannot operate on a capped basis, telling people to wait until January or September. That is not on and has to change. We also need to take on board the requirement of increased numbers in terms of beds availability. Increasing the capacity of existing long-stay residential provision is required. Responding to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State could share the snippets.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the review of the funding of the fair deal scheme; if there are plans to charge older persons more for their care under the scheme; the percentage of assets and income planned to be taken; if a further proportion of the funding will come from the public purse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8165/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The recent remarks by the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, regarding the future funding of the fair deal scheme have caused considerable concern and, for some, fear. Will she confirm today that there will be no increase in the forfeit contribution requirement and the 7.5% per annum up to a three-year ceiling State take of the property value of the service recipient following his or...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State's response is not a reply to the question I posed. In the course of her attendance at a recent meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children, she stated: "The idea that a person with means would pay in the range of €250 to €290 per week for a service that is costing anything up to €1,200 to provide is unsustainable." In a subsequent...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the report by the World Health Organization, WHO, that has raised concerns regarding the Government's plan to introduce universal health insurance, UHI, and mentions European examples where insurer competition has proved ineffective in improving efficiency and controlling costs, including the fact that no country has been identified in which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In light of the WHO report that has questioned the Government's plan to introduce UHI, I seek to establish the Minister's most up-to-date thinking and intentions regarding the Government's proposed UHI-based health care model.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I found the Minister's response interesting and I would have been quite comfortable delivering the opening part of it myself. I note there is just an evaluation and I take some encouragement from that because I am very much of the view, as the WHO has confirmed, that there is no evidence of any country in which a competitive insurance system has kept costs under control. While the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Health Insurance Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are of one mind again on that. It is not only the WHO that questions this. I refer to the commentary from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Society of Actuaries in Ireland has warned that insurers could need up to €2.4 billion in additional regulatory capital to operate UHI. I attended and participated in an IMO seminar towards the end of last year in Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 19. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the roll-out of free general practitioner care for the whole population; and his views on reports that it is to be delayed by three years, or more; the stage the negotiation regarding free general practitioner care for children under six years of age is currently at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7970/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 20. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of progress by the group tasked with an examination of medical card issuing criteria; if the revised criteria for granting medical cards will take account of medical need; when this group will make its recommendations; when these recommendations will be acted upon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7972/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee regarding the introduction of a meningitis B vaccine; when a decision on the recommendation will be taken; if positive, the timeframe within which the vaccine will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7973/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 34. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the massive increase in numbers waiting for surgery, for over a year, in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; if a particular plan has been, or will be, put in place to address these lists in Beaumont, in view of the fact that they include those in chronic pain, along with those waiting for essential spinal surgery; if there is a plan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 38. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of what has been done, and what will be done, to ensure that kidneys donated here, are not sent abroad, due to a lack of infrastructure to harvest and transplant them here; in particular the plan there is to recruit relevant specialists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7974/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (25 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 117. To ask the Minister for Health when the public consultation on increasing the availability of epinephrine auto-injectors will commence; as part of the review, his views on increasing the current special authorisations available to the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council emergency first responders, to include the use of epinephrine auto-injectors in an emergency, under the clinical...