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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 12, to delete lines 5 to 9 and substitute the following:“(4) (a) The Minister shall put in place measures to ensure that an individual’s individual health identifier will be made know to him or her as of right (or, in the case of a deceased individual, to be made know to the individual’s personal representative).”.I have invested...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not to be argumentative but simply to try to understand how we are going to reach a situation whereby the individual health identifier will be of greatest service across the board. How do we intend to disseminate the information in respect of the individual's identifier? We will be holding it on a register. Presumably, the general practitioner network will need to know although I am...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are on Committee Stage and still have to deal with Report and Final Stages. This is not my stand-alone concern, there is always a body of concern in respect of this type of provision. I ask the Minister and his officials to look at this again to consider if there is anything further they can do in the intervening period until Report Stage. I cannot present a formula off the top of my...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 12, to delete lines 2 to 4. My amendment seeks the deletion of lines 2 to 4 on page 12, which state: "The assigning of an individual health identifier shall not be regarded in any way as indicating, in and of itself, an entitlement to, or eligibility for, the provision of a health service to the individual." I think I indicated on Second Stage that I can...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to ask the Minister a brief supplementary question. I do not doubt what he has assured me to be the case. Like him, I must confidently assuage people's fears and, therefore, ask him the following again. The Minister's amendment No. 3 is a substitute for an almost two-line provision that already exists on page 10 which states: "[T]he carrying out of health research that is the...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept the technical nature of the amendments in this grouping, so I support the Minister's amendments.

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has gone some way to answering some of my concerns with regard to amendment No. 3. This is not a criticism of the Parliamentary Counsel, as I have been a Member of the House for a while and I understand the legalese that is necessary in the preparation of legislation and the explanatory memorandum, but I found the explanatory memorandum heavy work in this instance. Perhaps the...

Children First Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome both the publication of this important and long-awaited legislation and the opportunity to address it. The topic of the mandatory reporting of knowledge or suspicions of the harm or abuse of children has been an issue in Ireland since the early 1990s. It was first recommended by the Law Reform Commission in 1990 and later by the Kilkenny incest inquiry in 1993, slightly more than...

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If one gets them, one gets them; that is it. I will not labour the point. It is clear that this is not something the Minister of State believes she can progress at this time. I am willing to accept this is something we may revisit in the future. I hope that good public sense would increasingly prevail and that this is an issue that would self-regulate by virtue of people staying away....

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 2:In page 5, after line 36, to insert the following:“Prohibition on sale or hire of sunbed to certain persons 6. (1) A person shall not sell or hire or offer for sale or hire, or permit to be sold or hired or offered for sale or hire, a sunbed to a person unless—(a) they have assessed the person’s skin type in accordance with the Fitzpatrick skin...

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As the Minister has been gracious enough to acknowledge, I hope he has his sunblock on when he is in Greece. I acknowledge the input of the officials on the evening we took Committee Stage. I tabled my amendments from Committee Stage again just in case the Minister might backtrack on me and I would need a vehicle by which to raise the matter again. I am happy to acknowledge that the...

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Our interest is in preventing cancer and, while I understand the Minister of State's argument, I am none the less perplexed by the assertion that we cannot act under the heading of equality. We would achieve equality by banning them outright.

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We cannot legislate for private use but, given our population profile and the predominance of skin types I and II, further protections are necessary. Discouragement and disseminating information are useful but, sadly, further measures are required in the context of public health. If a measure has been successfully employed in another jurisdiction, it is not beyond our gift to undertake a...

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was not aware that the Bill had the capacity to address the issue of people buying sunbeds for private use. It is academic as to whether people in Cavan-Monaghan go north of the Border to secure these services or stay here.

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “Prohibition on permitting the use of sunbeds by certain persons 5. (1) The owner, manager or employee of a sunbed business shall not sell the use of a sunbed on a sunbed premises to a person unless—(a) the owner, manager or employee has assessed the person’s skin type in accordance with...

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have tabled these amendments, relating to a ban on the on the use of sunbeds for people with skin types I and II, based on Fitzpatrick skin photo type classification. As I indicated on Committee Stage, I thank the Irish Cancer Society for framing these proposed amendments, and I hope the Minister of State has had the opportunity in the intervening period to give the good sense behind the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given that water does not cost anything up there, the Minister's response is great news.

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My office was open and the Taoiseach walked by, thank God.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Timetable (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has decided on a date to bring forward Budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18864/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Data (30 Apr 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 21 January 2014, if the number of homeowners who have availed of the home renovation incentive to date is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18865/14]