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Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 13. To ask the Minister for Health the way he can reconcile the programme for Government commitment that investment in the supply of more and better care for older persons in the community and in residential settings will be a priority of this Government and that additional funding will be provided each year for the care of older persons, including more residential places, with the Health...

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How can the Minister reconcile a programme for Government commitment in regard to supports and the provision of beds in nursing home facilities for older people and the fact there is no new moneys in the 2014 HSE service plan for this very purpose?

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: More older people are occupying acute hospital beds for longer as they await ever-scarcer nursing home places. The consequences of that are very clear in terms of straitened health budgets and beds in the acute hospital system. Has the Minister of State established the number of patients of senior years who have been retained in acute hospital settings beyond their medical care need, many...

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister of State indicate when she expects these additional packages and additional bed opportunities to be in place? It comes back to the point that acute hospital beds are being occupied by people whose real need is long-term residential care. I fully support care in the community. Make no mistake, if those people could return home, many of them would make that choice. I know...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This matter was raised at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children on Tuesday when Dr. Colin Doherty, the national clinical lead for the epilepsy programme, was before the committee. He indicated he was at a loss to understand this because he had been a direct participant in advertising and interviewing during the recruitment process. He could not in any way...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The ceist is will the Minister try-----

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is happening this morning? With respect I ask Deputy Stanton to allow me to finish.

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have. It is a very serious matter when the clinical lead outlines the difficulties. Will the Minister establish why the delay has taken place and why we have not already seen the appointments in Cork in line with all of the other areas, and ensure we will not have a repetition of such delays for such an important service?

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to clarify the grouping of questions. My question, No. 37, is related.

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is being done to address the overall serious position of Tallaght hospital? I notice the recent statement by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation calling for more nurses to be appointed. It has reflected on the 2012 HIQA report and the current situation, which is described as being worse. These are front-line staff. The 2012 HIQA report was quite alarming, to put it mildly, but...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Issues (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he has ascertained the actions that were taken in response to the concerns expressed by midwives in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, in 2006; the immediate action he will take to ensure best obstetric practice at this hospital; if he will ensure that the long signalled problem of under-staffing is addressed without delay; if he will initiate a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Issues (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This question concerns whether the current Minister for Health has ascertained what actions, if any, were taken by his predecessor, the then Minister for Health, Mary Harney, in response to concerns about midwifery staff at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, and what action he is willing to take to address the long-signalled problem of understaffing at the facility.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Issues (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I extend my deepest sympathy to the four families we know of who lost infants in tragic circumstances in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. As the parents stated, they have been treated disgracefully in their words, which are absolutely correct. They were kept in the dark about how and why they suffered these tragic losses. The HSE has admitted serious failings and I ask the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Issues (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the last remarks by the Minister. Only in the fullness of time will we have the opportunity to test them but I hope the commitment will be delivered upon. Will the Minister confirm the scope of the report of the Chief Medical Officer? Will it include address of the staffing levels and understaffing over the number of years involved? It is crucial to establishing the full facts....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Charities and Voluntary Organisations (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Of course there have been cuts-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Charities and Voluntary Organisations (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and under the Minister's stewardship.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Charities and Voluntary Organisations (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No. It sounds very like the Minister's own time here on these benches. Another useless act on the Minister's part

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Charities and Voluntary Organisations (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thought the Minister's qualifications were in medicine. Clearly, spin-doctoring is the only qualification he has got.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Charities and Voluntary Organisations (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Spin-doctoring, ably assisted by the Minister's colleague beside him.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Do not forget the progressions.