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Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The survivors of mother and baby homes and similar institutions present in the Visitors Gallery represent not only themselves and each other but thousands of the most poorly treated of our citizens whose life experiences, exposed now as never before, stand out to the eternal shame of the State and all who contributed to its practices towards and treatment of single mothers and their children....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister did not respond to my other question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How convenient.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for structural changes affecting hospitals and primary care and to address the shortage of residential nursing home places following the record high numbers of patients waiting for admission on trolleys; the numbers of non-urgent elective surgical procedures that have been cancelled and the way will they now be accommodated; his plans to ensure that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My question seeks to establish the Minister's plans to address the ongoing crisis across our acute hospital network and the related issues of the under-provision in primary care and in residential nursing home places and other matters.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While some of the steps outlined by the Minister in his response are indeed required, nevertheless he has not indicated in his reply the importance of providing adequate staffing. I did not note it in the reply he has read into the record of the House. It is very important to recognise that the crisis that has presented in recent weeks across our acute hospital network, is continuing. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While the Minister made reference to increased bed numbers, it is very important to understand that this cannot be achieved with a static complement of nursing staff. It is very important that the crisis we have recently witnessed and which continues, is addressed holistically in the round. It cannot be done simply by the introduction of additional beds on wards. If the same complement of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 14. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the medication soliris, eculizumab; if it will be funded for those with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2415/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 37. To ask the Minister for Health the details of ambulance call-out target times; his plans to extend or to remove same; the actions he will take to ensure that rural communities are guaranteed appropriate and adequate emergency services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2412/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 45. To ask the Minister for Health if cameras and other forms of monitoring will be introduced in certain care homes; his views that this would be appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2414/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 67. To ask the Minister for Health the details of meetings of the emergency department task force; the number of times it is envisaged it will convene over the next quarter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2416/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 75. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the new Health Service Executive guidelines on providing accessible services to patients with disabilities; if a right to health care was considered in these guidelines; if any additional funding will be provided to ensure that these guidelines can be exercised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2413/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Scéim na dTinneas Fadtréimhseach (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 151. To ask the Minister for Health an dtabharfaidh sé sonraí faoi liosta na dtinneas fadtréimhseach; an bhfuil beartaithe téarmaí ar nós 'mental handicap' a athrú ar an liosta i bhfianaise an téarma sin a bheith seanchaite agus dímholta; an bhfuil beartaithe nuashonrú eile a dhéanamh ar an liosta i bhfianaise na dtinneas...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the reported anomaly relating to medical card eligibility in respect of persons aged between 18 and 26 years who, following changes to eligibility, will have their social welfare entitlement reduced to €100 per week if they are not full-time students and where they do not qualify for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the details of private health insurance and the fact that maternity benefits are included in the minimum level of benefits that companies must offer; if this is applied in all policies irrespective of gender; if this cost is split evenly between genders by way of government levies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2980/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Incidence (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the details of reports of a cluster of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome in an area (details supplied) in County Meath; if the Health Service Executive will investigate this cluster to ascertain whether there is an environmental or infectious cause; the action the HSE department of public health will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 165. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will fund the drug soliris, eculizumab, for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2995/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 188. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his views on whether there will be no cut to Health Service Executive preschool special needs funding in County Meath, in view of indications to the contrary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3031/15]

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister will agree, as he has done previously, that this is a last opportunity for many. In his response to me, Deputies Sandra McLellan and Robert Troy who are present he was specific when he afforded us a briefing in advance of the media briefing on Friday a week ago. Those who went through the experience of being in any of the institutions or locations not listed in the terms of...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understand, but the Nursery Rescue Society linked with it is not on the list.