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Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will paraphrase what the Minister of State said a few moments ago, which is that one must ensure the services people need are what they get. Yet he has placed people not on a pathway to those needs and services but in a maze in which they are unable to find how to get to the end point. This is absolutely unacceptable. Moreover, in the Minister of State's earlier response to me - when I...

Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Make no mistake about it-----

Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----I am asking the Government to recognise the hurt and pain that exists, of which its backbenchers must be at least equally aware as are Members on this side.

Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is not what we have.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Maternity Services (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the report be published, even in redacted form, if necessary?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Maternity Services (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if a report has been prepared on an infant born at Cavan General Hospital in November 2012 who was subsequently transferred to a neo-natal unit at a Dublin hospital and died there; if the report has been presented to him; and when same will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21353/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Maternity Services (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek to establish whether a report has yet issued on an investigation undertaken into the tragic loss of a newborn life, following a C-section at Cavan General Hospital in November 2012.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Maternity Services (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would it be allowed into the record?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Maternity Services (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I believe that would be appropriate.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Maternity Services (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Minister in extending sincere sympathy to the grieving family once again. However, it was not at the request of the family that I tabled this question, but because another tragic outcome has presented at Cavan General Hospital in the past fortnight. All families in the dependent catchment, including all of counties Cavan and Monaghan, particularly all expectant mothers and women...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Reviews (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Of course, the only real tears, as opposed to tiers, are those of the families who have been left in distress. The notion that there is no such thing as a discretionary medical card is belied by the Minister of State's own figures, given in parliamentary replies, which show that in March 2011, 97,120 people were in possession of full medical cards or GP visit cards on a discretionary basis....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Reviews (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is not about elections.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Reviews (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is about facts. I am citing the Minister of State's own figures.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Reviews (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health if he will elaborate on the third tier medical card and other measures of which he has spoken of in view of the loss of discretionary medical cards by many thousands of citizens in need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21352/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Reviews (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Minister to explain his recent reference to a "third tier". Of what is it a third tier? I also ask him to refer to other measures he has spoken of in the context of the loss of discretionary medical cards.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Reviews (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister up until very recently has refused to recognise the problem. I believe he was prompted into doing so by a recent meeting of his parliamentary party. He floated what I can only describe as a vague notion of some kind of "third tier" of services. The Minister of State made no reference to that in his reply, yet that is the core of the question I have posed. I asked that he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 13. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on progress on the proposed introduction of free general practitioner visits for all children aged five and younger, including engagement with the Irish Medical Organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21288/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 40. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recent study in The Lancet journa,l which analysed data across nine countries and 420,000 patients and concluded that patients are more likely to die if nursing staffing levels are low, the action he proposes to take to increase nursing numbers in public hospitals to safe and sustainable levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 47. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that discretionary medical cards are provided for persons whose income or assets exceed the threshold but for whom purchase of care, services and equipment relating to the illness would create undue financial hardship; that the Health Service Executive has stated that a panel of clinicians examine each case and apply an adjustment for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (14 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 49. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that, in the context of the ongoing reviews of provision of medical cards, all survivors of symphysiotomy will continue to retain their entitlement to medical cards, which are not subject to means testing and which are designated SOS, and which they have been given as part of the package of health supports for such survivors; and if he...