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Financial Resolution No. 4: Value Added Tax (6 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We gave the Tánaiste an alternative but he did not have the decency to read it because he would have learned something. It is long overdue that he looks at what other parties are proposing.

Written Answers — Corporate Enforcement: Corporate Enforcement (6 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to cases in which employers close down and reopen under different names as a ruse to evade orders to pay wages due to employees, including cases of forced labour in which workers may be owed tens of thousands of euro for years of overwork and underpayment; if he will introduce legislation to...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (6 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to ratify the International Labour Organisation convention on domestic workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38884/11]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (6 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 285: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way he intends to make forced labour punishable as a crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38882/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (6 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 419: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all the lands and buildings of former psychiatric institutions which are identified for sale by the Health Service Executive; if he will further detail those which have been sold to date; the proceeds raised from these sales; the amount of those proceeds allocated for mental health care; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Hospital Acquired Infections: Hospital Acquired Infections (6 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 424: To ask the Minister for Health if he will take action to provide Health Amendment Act cards to the small group of women who, having received contaminated anti-D on the birth of their children, have developed health issues consistent with those testing positive for Hepatitis C, but who are themselves testing negative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38763/11]

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Irish Prison Service: Irish Prison Service (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which the five-year capital strategy for the Irish Prison Service will be completed and published. [37920/11]

Written Answers — Prisoner Releases: Prisoner Releases (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to expand the numbers of prisoners participating in the pilot project on early temporary release; his plans to continue this pilot project beyond the current six-month lifespan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37919/11]

Employment Support Services (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The website of the JobBridge scheme lists the following eligibility criteria: one must be unemployed and actively seeking work, and one must be on the live register and currently in receipt of jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance or signing for social insurance contribution credits for three of the past six months. This appears fairly straightforward. Unfortunately, it is not so....

Employment Support Services (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I outlined a previous reply by the Minister to my colleague, Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh. It was the Minister's reply that made reference to the FÁS work placement programme in the first instance. Sadly, it has brought no benefit other than the experience itself in the particular case I cite. With respect, although the Minister gave a lengthy, nine paragraph reply, it is only in the last...

Employment Support Services (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As long as the JobBridge scheme is all that is on offer, I will of course make the case that lone parents and non-parents alike should be treated similarly. In this instance, if the Minister is to undertake any review, I urge her to hear and heed the cry of this woman, who is representative of a number. It is not going to break the bank but it will make a huge difference. They are very...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not intend to present any amendments. I apologise for missing the opening part of the Minister of State's contribution at the end of Second Stage. I was at a well attended safeTALK training session sponsored by the all-party group on mental health which is taking place in the AV room. Unfortunately, I cannot cover two sites at once, although I am working on it. The Bill will proceed...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Bill is necessary to provide, as the explanatory memorandum states, "a mechanism to support intergenerational solidarity" in the health insurance market. The memorandum also states that such solidarity is required because "there are incentives for insurers to design products that are attractive only to healthier lives, undermining intergenerational solidarity and the common good...

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not a chance.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Look at who is on the blanket now.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Look at the Deputies opposite. They are guilty.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not at all.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He was not in the Chamber.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Look at the guilty faces.