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Hospital Services. (21 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: At this stage, one almost knows off by heart the section in the reply referring to the HSE. It is the standard reply we get to all parliamentary questions submitted on health-related issues. Does the Minister recall that in September last year, just before her predecessor, Deputy Martin, left office, following a meeting with representatives of the North Eastern Health Board, he agreed to...

Hospital Services. (21 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the larger emergency room to operate on a 24 hour, seven day, basis, I understand completion is expected within the next two weeks. I hope this proves to be the case and that it will be operable as soon as possible. For the Minister to make comparisons between the journey from Dundalk to Drogheda with that from Monaghan to Cavan——

Hospital Services. (21 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am being brief. One is talking about two different realities for patients on ventilators travelling for CAT scans. The Minister should make no mistake about it, there is absolutely no comparison whatsoever. It is imperative for the patients concerned to have a CAT scan facility. It is worrying that she is advising us that she has no such knowledge of the CAT scan facility proposal. I ask...

Hospital Services. (21 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister outline the plans for development of women-centred services at the hospital?

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Every year Deputies have the opportunity to vote on whether to continue to use repressive legislation in this State. That opportunity presents again despite the past decade of the peace process, the IRA ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement. Every year the Minister publishes a slim report at the last minute, which no one has a chance to read, as has been stated here. Despite this, every...

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given the judgment in the High Court yesterday, which has caused consternation among parents of children with autism, will the Government withdraw the Disability Bill and introduce rights-based legislation? This is an absolute imperative given the very worrying development yesterday. Will the Government bring forward new legislation to implement the recommendations of the task force on autism?

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister withdraw it?

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is the position on legislation to implement the task force's recommendations?

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Once again and annually I regretfully object to the renewal of the suspension of rights and freedoms under emergency legislation. We object to the proposition on two bases. The first is on principle.

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am objecting to the proposal.

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect, it is the practice that one explains the raison d'être behind the objection.

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Leaving the time as the central focus, this is not a proposition that should be addressed here at this point. Under the Good Friday Agreement the Government has a commitment for progressive security normalisation. The Offences against the State (Amendment) Act clearly does not fit into that commitment. The Government continues to renew repressive legislation, which has no basis or sound...

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——within which there is no basis for this proposition. I object in the strongest possible terms. Bearing in mind the previous ministerial responsibility of the Minister for Finance, I ask him to be cognisant of the responsibility on Government——

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——not to proceed with the renewal of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act. It has no place within our legislation in this day and age. I strongly object.

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Perhaps in his response to Members the Minister might indicate whether he has received a copy of the report of the Morris tribunal. Has any Member of the House received a copy of the report? We received a copy of the first report a fortnight after the initial publication. Now we are about to enter a flawed approach to its content as only statements on the report are allowed. Although it was...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (15 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her Department's disposition towards the small complement of permanent teachers with restricted recognition and who are now being placed on the special education panel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20143/05]

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion (Resumed). (15 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Sinn Féin welcomes the fact that the café bar proposal has been dropped. It was supposedly aimed at changing drinking culture, addressing binge drinking and related public order offences and countering the trend towards superpubs. The Minister, Deputy McDowell, failed to demonstrate how the creation of another category of licensed premises would achieve any of this, given that pubs already...

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With just a little over two weeks remaining before the summer recess, the House has still not seen the legislation relating to the repayments due to residents in long-term residential care facilities. Can the Tánaiste indicate when that legislation will be presented and when will the repayment process commence? On a final matter, yesterday I inquired from the Taoiseach but he did not know...

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will legislation arise from this matter, has it been discussed at Cabinet and when will the House have sight of it, if it is the Tánaiste's intention to proceed with the proposal?

Order of Business. (15 Jun 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the repayments process?