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Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (17 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timeframe and terms of reference for the Madden inquiry into organ retention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16225/05]

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (17 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on her recent proposals for the placing of extra beds in hospital wards to address the accident and emergency crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16227/05]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nurses who have left the practice of nursing in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16378/05]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nurses who have left the public health service and moved to the private health sector in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16379/05]

Order of Business. (17 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister say whether non-publication of the uncompleted Dunne inquiry report was as a result of the Attorney General's advice? Will that advice be published? In the context of the appointment of Dr. Deirdre Madden by the Minister to complete the Dunne inquiry, will her new terms of reference be brought before the House for approval?

Order of Business. (17 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The terms of reference for an inquiry is the business of the House.

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Health Service Executive is to withhold payments due to nurses and midwives under the Sustaining Progress agreement and under benchmarking, which fall due on 1 June. What is the Minister's view of what I can only describe as very provocative action? Is he aware that this threatened action by the HSE has evoked a very strong response from the Irish Nurses Organisation, that is, to consider...

Leaders' Questions. (17 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister must recognise that it is Government's responsibility and duty to help avert a deterioration of the situation in our accident and emergency units throughout the country and across the range of hospital services, which industrial action would undoubtedly precipitate. Is it enough to say this is a matter of industrial relations? The Health Service Executive and the Government must...

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State is back from his wanderings now and I am back also. What is the current level of co-operation between the CSO and the Statistics and Research Agency north of the Border? Is the Minister of State aware that a mistake is continually made between population comparisons of various census results? The census of 1901, an all-Ireland census, showed the population at that time...

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Taoiseach to answer this question directly. He has indicated he will write to the DLCG but will he not meet the group? That is critically what is required. I urge him to do so and to confirm that in the House. It is not good enough for the Taoiseach to say rights-based legislation of the type sought does not exist in any other jurisdiction. So what? What is wrong with this country...

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is it not just as important to ring-fence the needs of people with disability as it is to look after the betting industry in this State?

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: All I can say is "shame".

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Generalissimo O'Dea is probably riding it off into the hills. Be off with him.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not at all. If the Taoiseach answers the questions——

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach is mixed up because he has not got the text.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach should leave his text and answer the question.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach answer my question?

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am entitled to an answer.

Leaders' Questions. (11 May 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No one is——