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Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to share time with Deputy Sandra McLellan.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understand the complexities of this issue and welcome the timely introduction of the Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2013, the purpose of which is to extend the period of currency of declarations of eligibility and suitability which apply to the Russian Federation by one year to 31 October 2014 for those prospective adoptive parents who held such declarations on 31 October last. I hope it will...

Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This bulldozing of the so-called Water Services (No. 2) Bill, as proposed, represents an attack on the democratic role and responsibilities of Members of this House, who take that role and those responsibilities seriously. Members want to properly scrutinise and examine all legislation. That opportunity is not being presented to us. This is an absolute sham. I have no doubt that if the...

Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It should afford us the chance to do the job we have been elected to do as legislators.

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister cited a figure of 5,000 units. Would that it were the case that we have the certainty of this promise. My colleague, Deputy Dessie Ellis, has been pursuing the matter with the Minister and his Department but we can get no certainty, facts or detail on where the apartments or houses are to be constructed. Is there any decision on such a roll-out? It is an inadequate figure in...

Business of Dáil (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: And everywhere else.

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Billy Kelleher had the opportunity to speak. Will he now allow me the chance to do so? I also avail of the opportunity to extend Christmas wishes to all Members of the House, the Ceann Comhairle and the staff, including support staff. I would also like us spare a thought for those Members of the Houses who are unwell. I am thinking of our own Deputy Nicky McFadden but also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister will have our full support in this endeavour. I ask her to address the issue of adopted people and the situation in future regarding the files.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In relation to the files now in the hands of the HSE from a variety of adoption agencies, religious institutions and so on, will the HSE or the child and family agency have governance over these files and with whom will adoptive people have to engage? The Minister has responded to many of my questions, some of them in writing, for which I thank her. Regarding her reference in her responses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could I have a copy of the letter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will send my pigeon over to pick it up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (19 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To get off on a better note, I take the opportunity to wish the Minister and her officials a very happy Christmas. It is most important that we have the child and family agency ready to roll from the beginning of the new year. It is, without question and as the Minister has described, historic. It will live up to that, I have no doubt, over the years ahead. At the conclusion of the...

Other Questions: Proposed Legislation (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would like to ask a quick question on this. Can the Minister confirm if the Bill has now been introduced in full? Has it been enacted? Is it actually now in practice across the health services?

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Response Times (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I briefly-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Remuneration (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Time will show that an independent inquiry was required because one of the first things that has to be established or re-established here is public trust and confidence, which has been seriously dented. I believe the issues involved are more than just the top-ups themselves, although they are the most vexatious. We have also seen exposed the unusual arrangements in regard to pensions and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Remuneration (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While the Minister is leaving it to an evaluation on an individual basis, I believe he should signal in the strongest possible terms that recoupment is indeed a target of the exercise. I believe the funds should be restored to their intended target area, which is the services to the patients involved. Again, I am very concerned that it is the HSE on which we are depending in this instance...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Remuneration (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a timeframed independent inquiry into the practice of top-up payments to senior executives at section 38 entities; the steps he has taken to impress on all such bodies that these payments must cease with immediate effect; if recoupment is being pursued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54127/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Remuneration (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The recent focus on salary top-ups was not just about the irregular practices at the Central Remedial Clinic. The Health Service Executive and the Department themselves have, in some cases, approved top-ups of a very substantial nature. Does the Minister agree that a timeframed independent inquiry into such practices at all section 38 entities is now required?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister not accept that it is unacceptable that the opposition spokespersons on health will not have the opportunity to address the detail of the national service plan until after its introduction and implementation from 1 January next? The plan is for the calendar year of 2014. With regard to provision for the roll-out of the bilateral cochlear implant programme, speculation in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As for the Minister's claim of success, he should read the newspapers. He does not have to say it when his spin doctors are suggesting that this was a victory for the Minister over the Labour Party-----