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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (5 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Billy Kelleher has a different set of figures for the State Claims Agency, as I note a significant decrease in the provision for 2015. It is a drop of more than 36%. Can the Minister explain? We can never properly predict the extent of claims arising from cases of negligence. This has been the focus of the committee in the recent past and was raised again earlier in terms of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (5 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yesterday the Minister replied to my parliamentary question on the requirement to advise a patient where an adverse incident occurred. We engaged recently with the Medical Protection Society, the State Claims Agency and others and very strongly challenged the "deny and defend" culture. When the Minister is preparing the legislation which he intends to do, I recommend that candour needs not...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (5 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have glanced at the Minister's explanation of the reason he believes it is achievable to reduce provision for the primary care reimbursement services. The Minister is talking about a significant amount of money, almost €20 million. While it is under 1%, it is a considerable sum. The high-tech expenditure for 2015 is to remain at the forecast 2014 outturn. I suppose Soliris would...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (5 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I acknowledge that work and appreciate what I have seen first-hand in my constituency. However, the consequence of meeting the HIQA requirements has translated into a reduction in the actual number of beds available at these settings. We are not building into the redesign plan further additional bed provision. In the case of the unit in Castleblayney, which the Minister has cited, the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (5 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to comment on the subhead relating to ophthalmic and dental services. There continues to be significant concern - it even runs to distress - in many family cases where young people cannot access dental care through the public system within a reasonable timeframe. Young people are moving out of education without having significant dental work addressed. It is not simply a question of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (5 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: And boys.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (5 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister, Mr. Breslin and the officials. This was a change this year in terms of how we would address the Estimates. I was apprehensive at first but I have to say it was a worthwhile engagement. I appreciate the Minister's frankness in terms of the issues we tried to explore. Most importantly, I hope he would recall some of the points we have made in his deliberations with...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Expenditure (5 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 208. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide the details of the more than €180 million spent on youth services, of which there is a lack of evidence to show that it aided better outcomes for disadvantaged young persons; the action that will be taken to ensure that better quality data will be recorded; the further action that will be taken to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of patients on waiting lists in Waterford University Hospital, for outpatient appointments, inpatient procedures and other lists, who have been waiting for six months, 12 months, one year, two years and more than 2 years, broken down by specialty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5128/15]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was going to select a number of areas on which to question the Minister and to make appropriate remarks.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to make a couple of remarks. I welcome the Minister and his team from the Department. I wish to refer to the briefing for the select sub-committee that was prepared by the Department. There may be other figures that I have been able to link up in the limited time available to me. In terms of the Child and Family Agency, the Estimate for 2015 refers to a sum of €631...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is Vote 40 and I am referring to page 5 of the 26-page briefing provided by the Department in advance of today's meeting. I seek clarification as to the organisations and as to why grants part funded by the national lottery to these respective organisations, estimated as €910 million in 2014, are not now to be provided. There is a 100% discounting of these for this year. I will...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minster for the clarification on the €12 million capital allocation in his stated allocation for Tusla for 2015. I do not expect the Minister will know but I ask in case he might. Does he have any idea as to how that money might be expended in the course of 2015? Are there any particular projects for which it might be earmarked? I refer again to an issue I have...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a couple of comments on the Minister's response.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Of course. That is what it is all about.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to the provision of social workers, on which Tusla is critically dependent in the carrying out of its function, and the allocation for 2015. In real terms, leaving the capital allocation aside, there is a 4.8% increase, but that is not enough. On departures, of the 1,396 whole-time equivalent social work positions, leaving aside the 164 recruited during the course of the year -...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will approach the same issue in a slightly different way and ask the Minister the following questions. Do we still have pre-adult detainees in St. Patrick's Institution at Mountjoy Prison? How soon does he expect that to end?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does he envisage that Oberstown will be operational soon?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will it be this year?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister.