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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV-AIDS Strategy: Discussion (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome our guests and thank them for their contributions. I understand the national sexual health strategy is being prepared by the Institute of Public Health. Dr. Holohan has indicated that the strategy is being finalised. When does he expect it to be ready for publication and will it present an opportunity to address some of the deficits and areas of concern that he and other speakers...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (5 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on negotiations to secure a site for the new post-primary school in Ashbourne, County Meath. [52442/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Mr. Slye can cut the time in half by incorporating together his response to me and Deputy Heather Humphreys. This is, for all intents and purposes, a new project. It is not a continued trajectory and the people of the affected counties deserve to have the engagement that applies in each of the other two instances. Such engagement has not been afforded to those who reside across counties...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to echo some of the points made by Deputy Humphreys. Following the aborted oral hearing in 2010 EirGrid introduced a new methodology of engagement; it was all about the consultation roadmap. That had not applied in the previous engagement with the people in the communities who were to be affected along the Meath, Cavan, Monaghan corridor. Deputy Humphreys makes an excellent point....

Electricity Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue tonight. It is an issue which affects thousands of individuals and families right across this island, from Tyrone to Cork and right through the heart of my own constituency of Cavan and Monaghan. My constituents are angered by the arrogance of the approach by this Government through its designated Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte and,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If I could just comment-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: You are having no discussion at all. I have nothing to hand to explain the reason.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Surely, you will allow me to finish my sentence?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have no idea what you have just said.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have not had sight of it. All that I have received is the statement: "The following amendments have been ruled out of order." End of story.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have not received that, or, rather, I have not had sight of it. I make the distinction between the two. I have not had sight of it. I very well understand the point in respect of commencement. It is an opportunity to reflect again to the Minister the importance of the White Paper on the financing of universal health insurance. We are talking in a limbo situation in respect of the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am unsure why amendment No. 8 could not have been accepted because it would have most certainly protected the customer base of the various institutions.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has a calculation of the likely impact of these changes been made? The comparative position-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Let me explore further arguments on Deputy Kelleher's amendments. Has the Minister or his officials extrapolated exactly the comparative impacts on the customer base of the difference between the 12% and 10% levy? As the Chairman said, it is about the customer at the end of the day. I hope there is a wish across the board that the negative impact, in terms of cost for policy holders across...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is within the context of the Bill.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Where direct payment is made to the doctor or consultant as a private referral what is the situation - if the Minister is able to listen to me - with regard to the support staff of the doctor or consultant? They are not being paid privately. They are being paid by the public purse, including a number of associate supporting nursing staff for the private practice element of the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am absolutely certain the public dimension with regard to private health insurance cannot be left out. We are speaking about private health insurance and amending the substantive legislation through the Bill, but entire areas are not being addressed where public moneys support in a major way the private practice element of the day's work of doctors and consultants throughout our hospital...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister elaborate on the points he has made? He indicated a 50% reduction in the cost of day cases from approximately €825 to €407. What is the mechanism for its introduction? When will it come into effect?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Did it require legislation? Was it an order? What is the mechanism for the delivery of the reduction?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has known for a long time that I am far from being an enthusiast of private health insurance. However, I accept that the risk equalisation approach is necessary in the context of where we are at this point in time and have no problem accepting that this is a requirement. I have some concerns and am disappointed my amendments have not been allowed. In regard to hospital bed...