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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is Vote 40 and I am referring to page 5 of the 26-page briefing provided by the Department in advance of today's meeting. I seek clarification as to the organisations and as to why grants part funded by the national lottery to these respective organisations, estimated as €910 million in 2014, are not now to be provided. There is a 100% discounting of these for this year. I will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Child and Family Agency (25 Sep 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...the outstanding point from my questions to Mr. Jeyes. In his reply to my question regarding a ring-fenced budget for post-leaving and after-care provision, Mr. Jeyes indicated a figure of €16 million. He did not indicate whether there was a ring-fenced figure for social worker training but said he had intended that there would be. Is there currently a ring-fenced training budget...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This provides for a 20% reduction in the provision of moneys to tackle the drugs crisis in our society. The 5% reduction relates to both the Estimate and the outturn and it equates to €1.524 million. It is in no way reflective of the required response to the ever increasing threat from drug addiction in society demonstrating itself not only in the larger population centres, but...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 5:In page 6, line 41, after “determine” to insert the following: “but the total annual remuneration for each director shall be no more than €100,000”.I have consistently argued, as I do in amendments Nos. 5 and 12, for a cap to apply at the highest pay levels of the public service. That is hugely important in these economically...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was somewhat surprised at the level of Supplementary Estimate being sought as announced towards the end of last week in that it is only €680 million rather than the amount speculated. I have no issue in agreeing to the Supplementary Estimate but I do have some specific questions for the Minister. First, the Minister in his concluding remarks accepted that this Supplementary Estimate...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...opportunities and limited ambition for those citizens living with a disability, and I will address this area in particular. The disability services budget did not start off as a balanced budget. There was a deficit of €16 million, and there is a deficit of more than €30 million hanging around the necks of the organisations that are publicly or part-publicly funded and...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Disabilities, which was ratified last March, will be delivered any time soon. The additional funding announced yesterday will not even allow the disability sector to stand still. An additional €150 million was the grand total of the Government's announcements. Almost €60 million is immediately consumed by the €5 weekly increase in disability payments. I am sure most...

Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...ones to do so, but all have been dismissed by this coalition which takes its cue not from the Irish people but from the troika. We identified more than €1 billion that could be raised from wealth taxes and €365 million from a new higher rate for those on incomes of more than €100,000 per annum. If even a fraction of those measures had been introduced, the coalition...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (3 Feb 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...was prepared by the Department. There may be other figures that I have been able to link up in the limited time available to me. In terms of the Child and Family Agency, the Estimate for 2015 refers to a sum of €631 million and a 4.8% increase. The Minister's commentary mentioned a budget of €643 million and an almost 6% increase. Can he rationalise the discrepancy...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...I note that he acknowledges that Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil recognised in the preparation of our pre-budget alternative submissions the crisis in the emergency departments and each provided €86 million to address measures needed this year. Fianna Fáil, as it does, rounded it up to €90 million. Nevertheless, we had provision within our alternative address of...

Banking Crisis: Motion (19 Jan 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...- the top bankers themselves across all institutions. The Irish public has already poured €7 billion in recapitalisation payments into Anglo Irish Bank, AIB and Bank of Ireland; more than €50 billion will be spent on NAMA; and billions more will be required for future recapitalisation. Yet the public still do not know exactly how or why this situation came about. We should make no...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...policy continues to ignore the needs and rights of those with disabilities. The Government is, of course, spinning this budget in as positive a light as it can. I accept and welcome the €5 increase to disability allowance but this will not come into effect until March. There is absolutely no reason people depending on social welfare should be forced to wait six months, until...

Public Health (Tobacco)(Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Jul 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...and in discouraging smoking. The impact of smoking is widely agreed to be one of the greatest health challenges facing humanity. It is estimated that across the 32 counties of Ireland 9,500 people die every year from smoking-related illnesses. This is part of a truly shocking worldwide death toll. The World Health Organisation says that tobacco causes approximately 5.4 million deaths a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The background to these revised Estimates is the austerity cuts regime, which has resulted in reductions in health spending year on year. A sum of €781 million was cut in this year's budget, more than €750 million in budget 2012 and an additional €130 million in August 2012, and all that followed a cut of €1 billion in 2011. Along with other colleagues, I have...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...1: In page 3, line 18, after "other" to insert "lesser". As I said on Second Stage, this is a deliberately deceptive Bill. I emphasise that fact. The Bill's proponents and supporters point to the 50 cent per item charge and the €10 per month ceiling, but deliberately ignore the wording of section 1(1A) of the Bill, which states "or such other amount as may be determined by regulations...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...the other. Under the mysterious heading of "Medical Card Probity”, the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, and Minister of State Deputy Alex White have targeted a massive so-called saving of €113 million. When questioned at their press conference about this yesterday the two were unable to account for this figure. Where did it come from? How was it calculated? Nobody has...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Children, it was listed as the Prescription Charges Bill. This was changed to the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill in the vain hope of taking the bad look off it. The legislation sets a charge of 50 cent per item up to a maximum of €10 per month. The Bill has been sold politically and in the media on the basis that the charges are small. The opening contribution of the Minister for...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...for them. I spoke earlier of the Government's oft-repeated claim that we are a knowledge economy. The Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, chose not to highlight in his speech the cuts of €200 million to education in 2010. It is an outrage that 27% has been cut from the budget for building, equipping and furnishing primary schools. Children will continue to be taught in dilapidated...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...entity, where it appears little or no thought is given to the fact that the taxpayer has to pick up the bill. Last month RTE showed us that the installation of water meters around the country had cost approximately €100 million more than the estimate given by Bord Gáis. Even this week, it has come to light that Uisce Éireann is spending more than €81,000 a week on...

Hospital Services. (3 Jul 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...in treatment room services to an 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven-day service by 2008; the transfer of acute medicine from Monaghan General Hospital to Cavan General Hospital by July 2008, with the loss of 5.5 whole-time equivalent posts; the transfer of all Monaghan critical care patients to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; closure of the Monaghan high or critical care unit; all in-patient...