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Written Answers — Constitutional Convention: Constitutional Convention (13 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 119: To ask the Taoiseach if he will include in the tasks of the constitutional convention the removal of the constitutional impediments to the abolition of ground rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13937/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 308: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17, will be granted carer's allowance. [14317/12]

Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (13 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 374: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out the correspondence between his Department and a company (details supplied) in 2006 with regard to the Priory Hall apartment complex, Dublin; if and when the complex was visited and inspected by inspectors from his Department; if it is the case that fire safety issues were discovered by...

Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (13 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 447: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to educate children about safe Internet use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8069/12]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (13 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 548: To ask the Minister for Health if he has issued or will issue instructions on medical card applications from persons who previously benefited from the free dispensing of psychiatric medication by mental health services in the greater Dublin area and who, since the ending of this scheme, face large bills for medication and for general practitioner visits to obtain prescriptions,...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (13 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 594: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the statement by a member of the working group on the proposed medical assessment unit at Monaghan General Hospital that the working group has not met its terms of reference and that its recommendations cannot be accepted; if he will ensure that the development of the MAU will proceed, the requirement for such a...

Asylum Support Services (13 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to conduct a value for money review of expenditure on direct provision accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13848/12]

Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (8 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 50: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has met with the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to discuss the strategy for dealing with youth homelessness. [13092/12]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (8 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 57: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has carried out an analysis of the effects on jobs, unemployment, services and poverty of the cuts experienced by the community sector since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13080/12]

Written Answers — Cosmetic Surgery: Cosmetic Surgery (8 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have been in contact with their counterparts in France in relation to the PIP company which is responsible for breast implants using industrial rather than medical silicone, causing huge distress and possible medical complications to the women involved, including nine women in Ireland; if he and the Department have...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health when the new critical care unit in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, will open; the arrangements being put in place to ensure sufficient staffing and funding for the unit above and beyond the Health Service Executive regional plan for 2012; if additional non-critical beds will be provided at Limerick; his views on the fact that without...

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In recent weeks, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, has repeatedly denied that the 9,000 public sector workers who have retired over recent months have done so as part of an incentivised scheme under agreements made under the Croke Park agreement. I am not quite sure of the reason the Minister feels he must lead every discussion on the retirements now...

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is only one week since the final departure under the incentivised scheme passed. It gives none of us any comfort to state that real issues and problems are going to arise because adequate provision has not been made across all services and Departments. The retirements in question follow hot on the heels of a devastating recruitment embargo across the public sector which has decimated the...

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: People pay taxes with the expectation that they will receive basic social protections, health care and education for their families and other standard services. The Minister has been a champion of all of these throughout his political life. If, however, the public sector does not have adequate numbers to deliver services, then we are facing into a very real and protracted crisis. This...

Turbary Rights: Motion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to share time with Deputies Stanley and Colreavy. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. I commend the work of the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association. As outlined by my party colleagues in their contributions last evening, Sinn Féin supports the Technical Group motion and will vote accordingly tonight. It is fair, however, to acknowledge that the Government's...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (7 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 182 and 183 of 25 January 2012, when a reply will issue. [13183/12]

Written Answers — Gaeltachtaí Nua: Gaeltachtaí Nua (6 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 66: To ask the Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén obair atá déanta aige chun Gaeltachtaí nua a bhunú sa Ghalltacht. [12563/12]

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (6 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the Ulster Canal regeneration project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12489/12]

Written Answers — Bank Guarantee Scheme: Bank Guarantee Scheme (6 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts he has made to ensure that banks covered by the guarantee scheme uphold agreements with clients relating to the payment of VAT on house sales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12237/12]

Written Answers — Bank Guarantee Scheme: Bank Guarantee Scheme (6 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) had an agreement with Ulster Bank that every time it sold a house it would lodge the entire moneys with the bank and that the bank would subsequently pay the 13.5% VAT to the Revenue, that Ulster Bank has failed to do this and that consequently Revenue is now bringing...