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Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Bill implements budget 2013, which I can only describe as being thoroughly reprehensible. It punished individuals and families on low and middle incomes, cut social welfare, cut health and other essential public services, and has clearly deepened the recession. Austerity is not working and our economy is stagnant, despite all the public relations efforts of the Government to convince...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In private session before the witnesses attended, we addressed the issue of the roll-your-own tobacco manufacturing that is taking place within the jurisdiction. In the context of what Mr. Fitzgerald stated about taking a lot at the issue, I will add a further comment. The issue is between dissuading and the potential to displace. Dissuading is my preference by a long shot. That is why I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The 12.5g and 25g are to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The profile in question is of young people. I can understand the ten cigarette pack argument in terms of young people, particularly a cohort of young , but they are not the image that comes to mind when I think of roll-your-own cigarettes. It is a different cohort of users, people who generally have the choice and invariably have a particular common economic circumstance. I do not know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----instead of 12.5g or 25g packs. I ask that the witnesses take this point on board and consider it. The measure will not aid any of the objectives that we have in common. It is important that this be emphasised because some will interpret, and others will suggest even on this committee, this as meaning that some of us are weak in this regard when that is not the case. We want to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome Mr. Fitzgerald and Ms O'Brien. I get a sense from our scrutiny of the proposed EU directive that more stick than carrot is being used to address tobacco use. With all the empty seats facing us this morning, the picture is not complete. An awful lot of carrot is needed and we should perhaps have the Department of Education and Skills here with the officials from the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cross-Border Enterprise Initiatives (21 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he intends to make a response to the Cross-Border Economic Renewal Report of the Centre for Cross Border Studies. [9056/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cross-Border Enterprise Initiatives (21 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the consideration being given to creating a special economic zone along the Border counties to counter the regional economic disparities; and if he will raise the issue with his counterpart in the Northern Executive. [9057/13]

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I made the point many times in the previous Dáil that Government housing policy was market-driven rather than based on the right to housing and on meeting the social need for accommodation in Ireland. Sinn Féin, as well as other progressive voices, including some from the Labour Party benches when in opposition, were making those points long before the property bubble was allowed...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue for discussion today. The issue relates to an individual case presented to me, which I have pursued for some considerable time and has wide ranging implications, in particular for those with autism spectrum disorder similarly impacted as Aaron, the young person in the case involved. While this issue is being dealt with today by the...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, for taking this issue in the absence of the health portfolio holders. The Department of Health has failed Aaron and his mother. Aaron is without appropriate speech and language therapy and regular psychology appointments. His mum has applied for some respite but to no avail. A recommendation for theory of mind therapy to help Aaron socialise has been...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a person (details supplied) who travelled here last summer to have his eye replaced in Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin after a tear gas canister hit him in the face and destroyed his left eye, and who was sentenced on 28 January 2013, to six months in prison in Bahrain on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail the projects and programmes that will receive funding from his recent decision to approve an additional €4.7 million of Irish Aid money to the humanitarian crisis in Syria. [8847/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on a higher education grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8989/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on a higher education grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8990/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering an appeal against the decision to refuse a higher education grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8991/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Health the standards, guidelines, protocols and procedures which are in place for the support and supervision of school-going children with Type 1 diabetes in their efforts to control their blood glucose levels; if he will outline measures used to ensure these are adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9183/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry Regulations (19 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met with representatives of the Irish Airline Pilots' Association regarding their concerns for flight time regulations being proposed by the European Aviation Safety Agency; and if so, the work he is doing on the issue of promoting evidence based regulations which ensure the best safety standards for pilots and passengers. [8580/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (19 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a Student Universal Support Ireland application in respect of a person (details supplied); when first payment will be receive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8411/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Training Programmes (19 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 and 194 of 4 December 2012, when a response will issue from FÁS. [8522/13]