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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----with that party claiming, in turn, that it was a victory over the Minister. The Minister should look to his colleagues beside him who are quoted in the newspapers this morning.

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the bilateral cochlear implant programme? Is the Minister in a position to answer that?

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister accept that it is absolutely objectionable-----

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am dealing with question No. 2. Will the Minister accept that it is most unacceptable that Opposition spokespersons are dependent on purposeful leaks through the media in order to obtain some sense of the detail contained in the national service plan? I presume that detail will be formally announced later this morning. We do not have access to the relevant information. Such information...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and, therefore, that-----

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The director general of the HSE, Mr. Tony O'Brien, has calculated that 225,000 medical cards equates to €44 million in cuts under the so-called probity heading. If one extrapolates from this on the basis that the Minister had adhered to the €133 million cut, some 675,000 medical cards would be taken back in 2014. The reality is that on the basis of the director general's...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 2. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the 2014 Health Service Executive Service Plan [54128/13]

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek clarification regarding a notification we received indicating that Questions Nos. 1 and 2 had been grouped.

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We did not ask that Questions Nos. 1 and 2 be grouped. We received a notification to that effect.

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In that case, the questions should be ungrouped. I am as entitled as Deputy Kelleher is to put my question.

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the questions before us?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Allowances (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 13. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that he and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform approved a salary package for a former CEO of a Dublin hospital which ensured that when they took up a post as CEO of Health Service Executive hospitals in the west they were remunerated on the basis of their former CEO salary plus top-up; if this arrangement has been investigated...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 15. To ask the Minister for Health if he will require the Health Service Executive to urgently revisit its plans for the reconfiguration of mental health services in Galway-Roscommon, in view of the many concerns raised, particularly the need to maintain the services provided at the 22 bed unit at Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54117/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 26. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that there are currently four operating theatres closed in Cappagh Hospital; the waiting times, by procedure, at Cappagh in October 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54120/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Narcolepsy Issues (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 33. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the exact sequence of events that led to the issuing of letters to families of persons who contracted narcolepsy as a result of the Pandemrix vaccine, withdrawing Health Service Executive support, and the subsequent withdrawal of that letter; when he first became aware of this development; the contact his office had with the State Claims...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 237. To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be restored to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54575/13]

Other Questions: Children in Care (17 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to the aftercare implementation group.

Other Questions: Children in Care (17 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome this, as I did when the Minister first signalled it when we were concluding the debate on the Child and Family Agency Bill 2013. A statutory entitlement to aftercare to ensure young people leaving State care on the attainment of their 18th birthday have at least a comparable level of supports and encouragement to face the challenges of young adulthood is critically important. The...

Other Questions: Children in Care (17 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was recognising what the Minister had said that led me to table the question in the context of the young child's care plan assisting him or her to reach his or her potential. Each plan will be unique to the individual young person's circumstances and needs. The HSE national aftercare service is underpinned by a national policy and procedures document which was developed in co-operation...

Other Questions: Children in Care (17 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 75. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to progress legislation on aftercare provision for young persons leaving care to ensure they are provided with the type of transitional support that their individual situation requires; the date on which she expects this legislation to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53804/13]