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Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will receive their passport. [19563/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 246: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status regarding an appeal for supplementary welfare allowance and mortgage interest allowance in respect of a person (details supplied). [19643/11]

Written Answers — Compensation Payments: Compensation Payments (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason compensation is being denied to a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan for the eradication and disposal of a flock of ducks in 2010; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a precedent has already been established in view of the fact that nine other duck farmers received compensation from his...

Written Answers — Child Welfare and Protection: Child Welfare and Protection (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss its child protection concerns and recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19998/11]

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This week the Irish Medical News reports the Minister for Health as saying that wider plans to change the role of smaller hospitals have not been agreed but are being discussed by Government and he further claims that plans for reducing services in smaller hospitals have not been signed by him and will not be before full consultation. We are in the penultimate week of the session. Will the...

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----on the future of the network of smaller hospitals in this State this week or next week in order that before the summer recess we will have the opportunity to fully engage with the Minister on this issue? If he does not, it will be a disgrace because we will not get the chance to address it until the autumn.

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is a hugely important issue.

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach also speak to the Chief Whip about this matter?

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Taoiseach.

Child Abuse (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for bringing me in. Has progress been made on the first report of the Oireachtas joint committee on soft information? One must recognise that in responding to abuse in this particular instance, the soft information element should also be considered, which is not absolutely addressed in the provisions of the Children First legislation. I would commend...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach said that at the time of the general election.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When you made your commitment.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to address the following matter of national importance requiring urgent consideration, namely, the impending increase in electricity and gas prices and its negative impact on already struggling families and individuals as well as the overall economy.

Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will advise on the progress made towards the publication of the Government's proposed wording of the Children's Rights Referendum; and if she will commit to publication before this years end and a referendum in the first quarter of 2012. [20072/11]

Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome this first Question Time on children and children's rights. I commend the Minister on taking this first major step. At last week's Joint Committee on Health and Children, the Minister committed to introducing wording along the lines of that contained in the final report of the Joint Committee on the Constitution from February 2010. The period between February 2010 and February...

Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister indicated an autumn deadline. Will this be the deadline for agreement on the Government's wording? Will we see publication of the facilitating legislation in the autumn? Will the Minister dare speculate if we will see the referendum in the first quarter of 2012?

Children's Rights (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC, in September 1990 and ratified it two years later in September 1992. The first report was presented in 1997, the second in 2006 and the third was due in April 2009. While I note what the Minister has said, I hope the establishment of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs will not see these long and...

Children's Rights (12 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is legislation planned to incorporate aspects of the convention into domestic law? None of us wants to see another report showing a continuation of the flaws and deficiencies highlighted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2006. We must show progress on the matters I have highlighted.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the redeployment of primary school teachers to gaelscoileanna, even if their standard of Irish may not be adequate to teach in an Irish speaking school. [19167/11]

Written Answers — School Inspections: School Inspections (7 Jul 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process by which he can address the failure of a board of management to implement changes recommended by a whole school evaluation inspector. [19468/11]