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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Developing a National Strategy for Coeliac Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will Professor Kennedy comment on the current provision in terms of coeliac clinics? What in his view is the optimum situation towards which we should be working?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could the Vice Chairman give our guests an idea of the time it will take? Are we talking about 12 to 15 minutes maximum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is a reasonable cup of coffee available on the next floor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I joint the Vice Chairman in welcoming the panel this morning. We have a number of sessions here today, but the written and oral submissions Ms Towey and Dr. Pender have made have had a huge impact, certainly on me personally and, I have no doubt, on my colleagues on the committee. It does not take a great deal of analysis for us to realise just how devastating this diagnosis must be. All...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Dr. Pender indicated there is no service for Huntington’s disease sufferers in Cork. Is there a service in Galway? What services exist in Dublin apart from Beaumont and Bloomfield? I take it there is no building for the association either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the opportunity to address these matters to the Minister and to the director general of the HSE in this, the commencement week of the resumed Dáil. The figures from the INMO trolley count for today, 15 January 2015, were provided to me before the commencement of the meeting. The Minister referred to a trolley count of 244, but he failed to also mention that there were 72...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before Mr. O'Brien comes in, would the Minister comment on the emergency task force meeting yesterday, including what measures he was in agreement should be pursued in the immediacy? While I reflected particularly on the issue of recruitment, I also put forward the notion of localised recruitment as an interim measure. Perhaps the Minister would comment on whether he has considered this or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They are still friends so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is great. We are impressed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to ask about the recruitment exercise. The Minister has dismissed any prospect of an intervention on this matter in the past. There are difficulties recruiting nursing staff with the significant hike in the registration fees in recent years. It is quite significant and is having a very negative impact on the existing complement of nursing staff, never mind those we might recruit. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In fairness, we are here every day like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking how quickly the deferred elective procedures will be rescheduled. How many elective procedures have been deferred as a consequence of the recent crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept, first of all, that the introduction of additional beds without the required nursing supports will not function. It will only make a bad situation worse. I have heard the reply concerning a recruitment project that will concentrate on the neighbouring island to, hopefully, encourage the return of nurses who have left. In the interim the situation maintains and could, as Mr....

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: And is it decreasing?

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will see. If, as I hope, this turns out to be the case, it will have little to do with the sluggish response of the Government. Fine Gael and Labour have failed to address the root of the problem. I have heard nothing that convinces me that this will not reoccur next year, and sooner, if circumstances present. Solutions are now needed. The Minister must address this crisis with the...

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A cháirde, cuireann sé an-díomá orm mar urlabhraí Shinn Féin maidir le cursaí sláinte go bhfuil an cheist seo á phlé againn arís. Theip ar gach aon dream a bhí sa Rialtas le deich mbliana anuas aghaidh a thabhairt air nó aon réiteach a fháil. Tá ag teip ar an Aire, Teachta Varadkar, chomh maith. Last week saw...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would the Taoiseach answer the question put to him?

Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Three.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (14 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 83. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of host organisations on the JobBridge programme that have taken on between one and four interns; the number that have taken on five to nine interns; the number that have taken on ten to 20 interns; the number that have taken on 21 to 50 interns; the number that have taken on 51 to 100 interns; and those that have taken on 101 or more...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (14 Jan 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 84. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of interns placed with the five host organisations that have taken on the highest number of interns since the commencement of the scheme in July 2011; if these organisations are in the private, public and-or community and voluntary sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1584/15]