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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 475. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45849/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 539. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamenatary Question Nos. 268 and 269 of 22 October 2013, when the implementation plan of the youth guarantee will be completed; if any draft or working papers produced by the OECD on this issue can and will be made available to the member; if she will provide a copy of the documentation produced by the OECD on same; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Work Placement Programme (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 639. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of the €2.835m allocated for the local authority social employment scheme in 2013 that has been spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45822/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1019. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the review of the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; the date on which the schemes will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47287/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1058. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is differentiating between cancer patients with and without terminal cancer in the assessment of eligibility for discretionary medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45881/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1059. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made with the programme for Government commitment to establish a primary care fund to pay providers of primary care [45882/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces Funding (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1150. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the proposed cuts to local drugs task forces; if he will detail the approach which will be taken when allocating the budget for 2014 for local drugs task forces; if due consideration will be applied to case load-client numbers; the budget which will be allocated to the Finglas-Cabra drugs task force for 2014; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (5 Nov 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 1208. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will make available an appropriate respite place in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46803/13]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This just proves the Minister has lost.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It shows that they are hurting because the truth really hurts. That is a fact.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: At the time of the 1913 Lockout, the centenary of which we mark this year, there was no such thing as social welfare or social protection. If people had no work or no private wealth they starved and their families starved. The only form of State assistance, if it could be called that, was the poor house, and to go there was to be condemned to a prison-like existence and the breaking up of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It has, but I want to make a point in this regard because I hope to be able to reconstruct it on Report Stage. I made a big shot at this. After tabling amendment No. 71, I came in with a less convoluted proposition in amendment No. 72 but the Minister hammered it as well because of potential charges.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Then we will have to find out who is doing this. In any event, the bottom line, in simple and straightforward terms, is that we need to get something appropriate within this legislation and if the Minister is going to knock me back on the basis of a potential charge, then no Opposition Deputy can progress the proposition. The Minister gave a commitment to me in a previous debate that she...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome what the Minister has said.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister was doing famously up to the point where she said that if she does not make it then it will be in later legislation. The Minister should close it off, make a full stop and draw a line in the sand. This is the opportunity.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome that and I hope that the positive note at this point will signal a more harmonious Report Stage.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, it is not agreed. Again, this is in the context of amendments Nos. 62 to 64, inclusive. This is the Title. The amendment refers to providing for the transfer of the functions of the National Educational Welfare Board but that has not been our understanding heretofore. The Minister will provide Deputy Troy and myself with a full briefing note in respect of the Family Support Agency and...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We agree only very reluctantly because of the remaining question mark over the dilution of the role and function of the Family Support Agency.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister did not refer specifically to the exemptions that are provided for in this amendment. I refer particularly to the exemption that will apply under the proposed new 58L(c) to "a person taking care of not more than 3 children of different families (other than that person’s own such children) in that person's home".