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Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It has not been ruled out - the Minister has not done so. The plan projects savings of €95 million next year in further medicine price reductions and reforms in the medicines procurement process. The plan does not, however, provide comprehensive detail of exactly how these savings would be realised. By the end of 2014, the top 20 medicines, by cost to the State, will be fully...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before the meeting adjourns, may I make one last comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In respect of everything members have discussed. As Deputy McLellan noted, it is really bad. However, as for my point at the outset, I must state it is my belief that it is worse. It is the patient experience, the experience of people, that is missing from the report by HIQA. That is a huge untold story and I could not have shared what I did only I have lived it myself. That is out there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before the Chairman thanks everybody I suggest he formalises the proposition which I am happy to second.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Ms Dunnion. The Chair has picked up on the obvious additional area that I would have liked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understand what HIQA had to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Chairman in extending congratulations and best wishes to Mr. Quinn in his new role and responsibilities. I ensure him of our co-operation and good wishes always. I have read the report's executive summary. I would like to know the methodology of the review. Where was the engagement? With whom did HIQA engage? I ask that because I do not get a sense from the report that it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 414. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of mental health and counselling services available in Athlone, County Westmeath; the waiting lists for these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46153/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 422. To ask the Minister for Health the details of weight management clinics in Loughlinstown hospital, including numbers attending and waiting lists for the clinic and for surgery; his plans to increase funding for these services in view of the increasing weight problems among the adult population in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46208/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (2 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 603. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the costs involved in setting up the national driver licence service; if personal attendance is required for licence renewal in other jurisdictions; the current delays and waiting lists for services provided by the NDLS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46144/14]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As I noted yesterday, this legislation represents an updating of the regulatory regime for the health insurance sector in this State. Some of the Bill continues what I acknowledge, as the health delivery system currently is structured, is the necessary system of community rating, which helps to ensure that consumers are charged the same premium for a particular plan regardless of age, gender...

Business of Dáil (27 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect, the Minister or at least the Minister of State in the Department of Health should be here. With all respect to the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Paudie Coffey, whom I hold in good regard, this is critical legislation which I am not addressing to the Minister of State with responsibility for housing. I wish to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV in Ireland: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the delegation here this morning. Some members have returned once again and they are welcome back. I have listened to the delegation and have gone through the detail of the GLEN submission in advance. In terms of the immediate actions needed, awareness and testing are the two critical focus points that I have picked up from the messages delivered. In the table and chart of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 137. To ask the Minister for Health the levels over the past two months of patients being placed on trolleys due to lack of beds in Cavan and Drogheda hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45624/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if there are current plans regarding restoration of services at Monaghan General Hospital; the plans they contain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45625/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (27 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 139. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the statutory obligations of publication of annual financial accounts for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45628/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (27 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the response times for ambulances in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; if it is the case that ambulances are dispatched from County Galway to provide a service for County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45680/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (27 Nov 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the details of waiting lists for the national car testing centres in Monaghan, Cavan, Kells, Dundalk and Drogheda; the steps that have been or will be taken to reduce these waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45578/14]