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An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceapacháin Bhreithiúnacha) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Judicial Appointments) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the opportunity to speak about Deputy Shane Ross’s judicial appointments Bill. I commend him for his preparation of the legislation. My party, led by our justice spokesperson, Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, published the Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013 in January last year which, in a similar vein to Deputy Shane Ross's Bill, sought to increase...

Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have no objection.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 217. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 16 January 2014, when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive an appointment for a hip replacement procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8473/14]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The subject of this debate is hugely important to the safety of our citizens and to the quality of our democracy. We are addressing the integrity of the police service, An Garda Síochána, and the mechanisms established by this Oireachtas to ensure proper accountability of that service. I stress the word "service". Too often we hear the word 'force' in respect of police here and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Regarding the latter comment, it is nothing to do with any of these other section 38 and section 39 issues. It relates to how St. James's will be able to facilitate its ongoing work responsibilities while the construction of the new national children's hospital would be underway. That was the primary interest it had in Mount Carmel. That is something that surely the Minister would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not only a Dublin facility nor would it be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On St. James' interest in the Mount Carmel facility, I asked specifically about HSE discussions with NAMA that had not been advised to St. James’s. I have been advised that the HSE voices endeavoured to present themselves as speaking for St. James’s. There is a serious matter there. I have asked the Minister whether he will address this matter and explore the detail of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As the Minister well knows I have no particular fondness or brief for private health care. I have made that patently clear to the Minister over the years. However, I have to recognise that in the context of the current configuration of the hospital network, Mount Carmel was playing an important and useful role. The loss of its facilities is therefore a loss to the structure of delivering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: And Monaghan. Do not let the Minister off the hook.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Have we passed the point of rescue? Are front-line providers of specialist services, for example, the surgical teams and consultants working at the facility, still in a state of limbo? Are they available and willing to resume responsibilities or are they lost in the system or beyond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How many of those staff are there? Is it 205?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Chairman in welcoming Mr. McAnenly and Ms Ní Sheaghdha and I thank them very much for attending and representing the INMO. We will have an opportunity to engage with the Minister directly after this meeting. What the witnesses have shared with us will be very helpful in preparing for it. I join Deputy Kelleher in expressing disappointment that NAMA did not feel it...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 531. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the process for establishing the water charges fee to apply from 2015; the role of Government, Dáil Éireann, Irish Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation in establishing this charge; the timeline for same; if it is the case that there will be opportunity to consider exemptions,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Supply (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 533. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options available for a community (details supplied) in County Meath to improve the quality and supply of their water; if he will agree to meet with representatives of a local campaign group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8352/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding adult speech and language therapy service in Waterford city; the impact this is having on patients there including neurology patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8038/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (18 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 741. To ask the Minister for Health if seven nursing staff intended to deliver the national epilepsy care programme at Cork University Hospital have yet to be deployed; if he will outline the services intended to be provided at that facility and those currently in place; his plans to address this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8039/14]

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Bill follows almost exactly a year after the introduction of the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 and is part of the Government's claimed programme of change in the public health services. When the HSE was first established, we in Sinn Féin claimed it represented bureaucratic change rather than real reform. It was not the replacement of the inequitable and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We say well done to Mr. Reerink.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Since we are not going back to the previous speakers, will Mr. Ridderbeekx indicate whether he is a smoker? I would like an answer from each of the panel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The tobacco industry has had to accept the huge damage to public health that its products have caused. I note the following statement from the representative of P.J. Carroll, Mr. Donaldson: "Let me say that we fully accept that smoking causes serious and fatal diseases." In fairness to him, he did not state that this applies only to children and young people, but across the board. It is...