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Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 12, lines 27 and 28, to delete all words from and including "all" in line 27 down to and including "section" in line 28 and substitute the following: "not less than 40 per cent of whom shall be women and not less than 40 per cent men, appointed by the Minister following a process of public advertisement for the positions, assessment of candidates based on...

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the Minister of State can prove to me ——

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——that what I have argued for in amendment No. 5 is provided for in the Bill, I will be most happy. However, this does not appear to be the case. In order to ensure it is open to every citizen, the position should be publicly advertised so that the most suitable people can compete and be considered. There should be a clear understanding of the requirements regarding qualification. This is...

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State has hardly satisfied his earlier claim by interruption. If anything, he has spent his time telling us why the Minister cannot accede to the thrust of the amendment. With all respect to the Minister of State, if you had paid a little more attention to the detail of the legislation before being deputised this evening, you would have known that the Minister is in charge of...

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I beg your pardon, but——

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The reason was clearly his facility to espouse——

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I did not interrupt you once, and you should at least have the manners to be quiet——

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——when I am responding to you.

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: You can call it"patronising" or whatever you like. Quite frankly, I am not the least bit intimidated by the Minister of State or any of his colleagues.

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I use my right to speak here——

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——and the Minister of State can either sit there and listen or leave, whichever is his desire. I am sure that it will not matter one way or the other.

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State has already determined his responses in this regard. The fact is that the Minister has the opportunity to appoint nine representatives to represent the interests of the general public, quite apart from the other three, something that I pointed out when I originally moved the amendment. These are the words I used very carefully and clearly in proposing the amendment. This...

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Have I exhausted it?

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I suppose the two minutes are over. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for his patience and the Minister of State for listening at last. If he does not accept the amendment on this occasion, I look forward to his doing so in due course. These arguments will continue to present themselves.

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I acknowledge the Minister of State's change of tone. I hope, irrespective of what action is now taken, he will raise this matter with the Tánaiste, as indicated, and the Government will adhere to the spirit of this amendment, at least. I acknowledge, too, the Minister of State's point on the legal architecture necessary in this regard, but it must be started somewhere. I may not have the...

Irish Unification: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I propose to share time with Deputies Ó Snodaigh, Ferris, Sargent, Finian McGrath and Joe Higgins.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the report of the Police Ombudsman in the Six Counties which implicates six members of the RUC special branch in six sectarian murders between 1993 and 2000 and in the attempted bombing of the Sinn Féin office in Monaghan town in 1997.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the event that the Health and Social Care Professionals Bill would impact on Private Members' time, I propose that we would allow for the full 90 minutes this evening, following on the conclusion of——

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If a vote is called, that will impact on the time. I ask for agreement that in the event that a vote is called, we would allow the full time. This has been accommodated in such a manner in the past.

Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My suggestion is only in anticipation. The problem might not present itself.