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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (13 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 484. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce an incremental purchase scheme for council tenants wishing to purchase their homes; the plans in place for council tenants to be able to buy their homes from the council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21422/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (13 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 636. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive a dental appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21394/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (13 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 638. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive a dental appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21405/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (13 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 672. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process that exists to get bus shelters erected; the number bus shelters in County Cavan; if he will consider the erection of more bus shelters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21102/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: EU Scrutiny Reports for 2013: Departments of Health and Children and Youth Affairs (8 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: EU Scrutiny Reports for 2013: Departments of Health and Children and Youth Affairs (8 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I did not hear the Chairman's opening remarks this morning at the recommencement of our meeting but I apologise to our guests for the delay in meeting them. I hope Mr. Breslin will convey my good wishes to Deputy Fitzgerald on her appointment as Minister for Justice and Equality. While that is a very exciting challenge for her, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs will greatly miss...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sorry but I will have to seek a vote on that question. I cannot accept section 10, as I have already explained.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will be satisfied with members present voting because they are the only ones who have participated in the debate.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will have the opportunity to revisit some of what we have said here today on Report Stage. Whatever about the outcome of the engagement, some of what was said was very important and I have already indicated my welcome for some of what the Minister has said. If we are to ensure that the situation does not get worse, we need to be working at this together.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept much of what the Minister had to say and I welcome the fact he stated very clearly we can go no further as it is beyond any serious contemplation that the health services could take further cuts. My concern is that section 10(b)(3)(a) provides that if the amount of net expenditure incurred by the executive in a financial year is greater than the amount determined by the Minister for...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am. I always do, including the Minister's. Why should that Minister have the final say before giving the Minister for Health the green light to carry forward an underspend so as to have additional funding in the year to follow? I am more grievously upset at what section 10 represents than I fully appreciated when we addressed it on Second Stage. I have taken the time to go through it...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On a point of clarification, I have never opposed a Supplementary Estimate for the Health Vote.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would never oppose one for all the right reasons.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, I am happy to proceed.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have given careful consideration to this Bill. I indicated on Second Stage that I saw the question of whether we had two allocations - one to the Department and one to the HSE - as a technicality. This Bill seeks to create a single allocation and places the Minister in a pivotal role in relation to the subsequent reallocation across all the service needs. I wish to set out the backdrop...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Policy (6 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 134. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made towards implementing the recommendations of the Government policy statement on sectoral economic regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19280/14]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I just want to flag that we will return on Report Stage to some of the issues we have discussed.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The point I am making is not about tourists, who are entitled to access whatever health service they need. However, unless the IHI system is operating on an international basis, their health history will not be accessible on our database. I presume the information we are talking about here in regard to health histories is part of what is retained and is accessible. If I present at a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I mean no disrespect to the Minister but he has not assuaged my concerns on this issue. The purpose of this amendment is to seek to maximise the potential of the legislation to provide, as I would envision it, the best possible return in the interest of every citizen or anybody presenting to use our health services in the future.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept that and I understood why it is there in the first place. The Minister will recall the long time that we argued for it and we do not yet have that statement. I had anticipated that the Minister's reply would have referred to legislation yet to present in respect of the basket of care. Now, the Minister is picking it and that was the card I should have played. That was the one I...