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Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking the Tánaiste.

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was signalled that the adoption Bill, incorporating the Hague convention, the adoption authority and miscellaneous items, would be published this year. In the current legislative programme, however, it is due in late 2005. Why is there a further delay? Will the Tánaiste guarantee that it will come before the House before the end of 2005?

Information Society. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the recent work that has been carried out in his Department to review the Government's information society policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1386/05]

Disability Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not only is this Bill not good enough for the citizens of this island with disabilities and their families, it is an insult to them and to all of us for whom equality is a core value. It is not a rights-based Bill, it is a resource-based Bill. For equal rights to be so heavily circumscribed by the dictates of a Minister for Finance, which is sometimes described as the fourth wealthiest state...

Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On behalf of the Sinn Féin Deputies and our team in Leinster House, I would like to associate with the good wishes to Mr. Des Edwards for his service here through the years and for his courtesy to each of us and to myself when I first came to the House on my own in 1997. I would like to associate him as one of the trinity of those who have been the pillars of the permanent staff of this...

Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the autumn schedule of promised legislation the Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill was listed and scheduled to be taken this year. In the new programme of Government legislation just published it does not appear to be listed, unless I cannot find it. What has happened to this promised legislation? If it has fallen off the table will the Minister take steps to have it restored? As it is such...

Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister might take note of the Department under whose aegis this falls and ask whether it is the appropriate Department.

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in the State with multiple sclerosis; the number of these who are on waiting lists for treatment; and if she will provide other data available on multiple sclerosis sufferers in the State. [1335/05]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 2 November 2004, the progress there has been in the development of a village complex for 60 residents with an intellectual disability on the campus at St. Ita's Hospital, Portrane, County Dublin. [1627/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 292: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the numbers on acute hospital waiting lists by each region and hospital. [1634/05]

Written Answers — Consultants' Common Contract: Consultants' Common Contract (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress in the negotiation of a revised contract for hospital consultants to ensure greater equity for public patients as promised in action 89 of Quality and Fairness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1635/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reasons for terminating the suspensions of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1636/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she proposes to take on foot of the RCSI report on surgical services at Cavan General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1637/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals for action regarding the future of surgical services at Monaghan General Hospital in view of her meeting with Cavan-Monaghan Oireachtas Members to address this matter on 9 December 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1638/05]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 758: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the denial on appeal of a visa to a person (details supplied). [1647/05]

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Ar son Sinn Féin, ba mhaith liom tacú leis an rún seo in aimneacha na dTeachtaí Neamhspleácha. On behalf of the Sinn Féin Members, I wish to record my support for the motion that has been proposed in the names of the Independent Deputies. This is a timely motion, sadly. I say "sadly" because the winter crisis in our hospitals' accident and emergency units is an annual event. It is as...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will now argue that it is not true.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste's comments, which are an example of pure Progressive Democrats ideology, have been reflected in several pronouncements made by her and her colleagues, indicating a growing trend towards the privatisation of the health service. As I have said, her statement is built on a falsehood. She spoke of Dublin's hospitals as if they are private institutions funded and run independently of...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join in the tributes to the late Eileen Desmond and extend the sympathy of the Sinn Féin Deputies to her family and her Labour Party colleagues. As has already been acknowledged by a number of speakers, she played a pioneering role as a woman in high political office. I am aware of the high regard in which she was held in her constituency and in the rest of County Cork. This, of course,...

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, to establish a redress board for those women victims of gross malpractice, including the carrying out of unnecessary Caesarian hysterectomy procedures, at the obstetrics and gynaecology unit of Our Lady of...