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Quinn Insurance Group (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the cross-party nature of this evening's attempt to address this hugely important issue. However, while I welcome the fact that the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Alexandra White, is taking this Adjournment matter, I regret that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, is not here in person. I understand that he may be preoccupied with a matter concerning a single job -...

Written Answers — Deportation Procedures: Deportation Procedures (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 284: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to a deportation that took place on 15 December 2010 in which significant violations of the rights and dignities of the Nigerian passengers have been reported, including that they were kept on the plane for two hours before it departed and not allowed to use the toilet during this time, forcing...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 6: 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...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I believe amendments Nos. 17, 18 and 19 are key to this Bill. These amendments address the need for statutory right to after care. I cannot emphasise enough how important I believe that to be. I believe it to be central and crucial to the value of the legislation being considered here this evening. There can be no valid counter argument to the call for the Health Service Executive to be...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State's observation in respect of the Ombudsman for Children's own arguments and the particular section that I cited is important. In the amendments tabled, it is clear in respect of section 45(1)(a) that what Members seek is that: Where a child leaves the care of the Health Service Executive, the Executive shall, in accordance with subsection (2), assist him or her for so...

Order of Business (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the point about concluding the finance Bill a month earlier, last year Second Stage of the Finance Bill was taken from 9 February to 22 February, Committee Stage was taken from 23 February to 25 February and Report Stage was taken on 9 March to 10 March. I do not see "a month earlier" in any of that. Those are the dates over which the Finance Bill went through this House. Clearly I would...

Order of Business (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----who are all concerned and anxious to know exactly what the Government intends? Will the Taoiseach give clarification please?

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join with my colleagues who have already spoken on this matter to commend the wording offered by Deputies Jan O'Sullivan and Kathleen Lynch. We must remind ourselves the Bill is entitled the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009. As has already been well put, language of the type used in this legislation, that is, detention, suggests punishment and a punitive situation and it should not be...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is interesting that the two previous speakers stated that the voice of the child must be heard. We are of one mind on this issue. It was addressed in an extremely careful manner during the course of the deliberations of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children. It is important to point out that the voice of the child must not only be heard, it must also be...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That would broadly summarise my position. We are not making much headway in terms of any accedence on the part of the Minister of State to the very carefully considered amendments the Opposition voices are offering. I find it difficult to accept we can settle for something that may not measure up to what amendments Nos. 5 to 8, inclusive, seek to achieve. I am discomforted by it to the...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the context of the shadow boxing currently under way within the Fianna Fáil Party, the Taoiseach said "We are in a fight and we need a fighter." Is it not a pity that the Taoiseach and his Government did not offer greater resistance and put up a fight when the IMF came knocking at our door? Today is another black day for the people of Ireland as the Government draws down €5.8 billion...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does he accept that the consequences of this are the impoverishment of the Irish people and the further collapse of our public services across the board? In his response to me last week, the Taoiseach indicated, reluctantly in my view, -----

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----- that his contacts with senior Anglo Irish Bank personnel were more intimate and more extensive than he had previously shared. I must ask him some straight and simple questions on that. First, why did it take a question from me in the course of Leaders' Questions - only the second opportunity open to us under Leaders' Questions as a Technical Group - for the Taoiseach to proffer the...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is very important. There has been no opportunity to ask the Taoiseach these questions.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect, the Ceann Comhairle is using up quite a bit of the time.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to remain on track. Why did the Taoiseach not offer that information? He had every opportunity on questions put to him earlier and previously, yet he withheld that critical information and claimed, right up to the time I stood up, that it was an entirely social occasion. However, it transpires that there was an agenda to address in terms of budgetary measures and job creation...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----- something confirmed subsequently in a statement -----

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is not out of order. What the Chair finds is that it is deeply uncomfortable. I want to find the truth and the facts.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not out of order.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Under what Standing Order is it out of order?