Results 10,601-10,620 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009: Instruction to Committee (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The motion before us relates to one particular amendment requiring the Health Service Executive to furnish, in the public interest, information and documents to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. That is a reasonable request with which I do not have a difficulty and will, therefore, support. I presume the motion is technically required to recommit the Bill to committee to address...
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is a grouping sheet available?
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understand and support the objectives of these amendments and I will support them.
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 8, line 35, to delete "detention" and substitute "placement". This amendment is representative only, because the requirement would be to amend the reference to the word "detention" no less than 70 times throughout the Bill. I remember that point being made by Deputy Jan O'Sullivan here on 18 January; she had gone to the trouble of counting the number of times...
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: At no time in the course of her response to the arguments I offered in support of my amendment did the Minister refer to detention orders or special detention placements. Rather, she referred to special placement orders and children placed in care. It was only at the very end that she utilised the term "detention". We must recognise that language is hugely important. Children can be made...
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Do I have much time left for this contribution?
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We can talk our way around matters of this nature. The truth is, however, that outside this institution and in the context of the parsing of language, the understanding within the wider community is that people placed in detention are there on foot of some wrongdoing on their part. As the Minister indicated, that is not the case with the relatively small number of people about whom we are...
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will not belabour the point because I have already made my arguments in support of the amendment. A few months ago I reminded the Minister that this is the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009. It was presented to the House by the then Minister for Health and Children and the Report Stage debate is being taken by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. The legislation was not prepared...
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 10: In page 45, between lines 42 and 43, to insert the following: "(2) The Health Service Executive shall have regard to the views of the child, taking into consideration the child's age and understanding. Prior to taking steps under this section, the court shall give such directions as are appropriate where the Health Service Executive proposes to take steps to which the...
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to object-----
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----- to the taking of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill Order for Report, Report and Final Stages. Many issues have shown major turnarounds on the part of this Government in the short time since it took office and today we have yet another example. On 18 January, the Tánaiste and colleagues from his party and the Fine Gael Party went through the division in this House in support of a key...
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Indeed, it is not separate.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is the core point of what needs to be addressed in this legislation on Report Stage. It is absolutely the kernel of it, that State institutions on behalf of the State are not turning out young people on attaining their 18th birthday onto the streets to be abandoned and ignored. There is an absolute responsibility on this House-----
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----to ensure after care for young people in State institutions. The ruling this morning-----
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----will not allow a debate, never mind the potential of actually having the amendment made to the legislation before the House.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There can be no acceptance of this methodology or of this legislation with such major deficiency and I put the House on notice that I will oppose it outright and shame on Fianna Fáil, or rather Fine Gael-----
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and the Labour Party, having supported this proposal in January when, in July, they will not even allow it to be discussed on the floor of the House.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Charles Flanagan tabled this amendment on 18 January-----
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and shame on Deputy Charles Flanagan for this volte-face six months later.