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Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am using the time open to me.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Let us cut to the chase and to the last of my questions and to a question that has not been posed. How appropriate was it in the opinion of the Taoiseach that a director of the Central Bank, appointed by the Taoiseach as a member of the regulatory authority, would be engaged in debate on matters fiscal and economic, job creations and budgetary issues etc. with three, either then or previous,...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking the question.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach answer the questions?

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That type of response might very well suit Fianna Fáil meeting in backrooms and acting as cheerleader.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I asked the Taoiseach a number of questions. As usual, like the master of mutter who preceded him, he did not answer them.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I again ask the Taoiseach why he did not provide the information that he then offered when the third of Leaders' Questions was put to him last Wednesday? What is his view in regard to the suitability or appropriateness of a director of the Central Bank and a member of IFSRA sitting down with three senior directors of Anglo Irish Bank to discuss all of the matters that have now been...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a final question. It has been reported that Mr. Drumm has secured a deal with Anglo Irish Bank which will block the Garda Síochána gaining access to confidential reports which are to be revealed in the context of Mr. Drumm's court case in the US?

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is there any basis to these reports? Is there any fear that Mr. Drumm will evade full scrutiny in this jurisdiction and prosecution if same be appropriate because of this? Did the Minister for Finance or anyone approve such an arrangement as inferred from the reports before us?

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I only asked-----

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Why did the Taoiseach not give the information?

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It appears to be relevant since.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking a question.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I asked the Taoiseach if Mr. Drumm is lying. That is all.

Requests to move Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to address the following matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Finance to indicate his and his Department's true intentions towards the proposals prepared jointly over a period of months by Quinn Insurance Limited and Anglo Irish Bank and that offer the prospect of the retention of all existing jobs in...

Medical Redress Schemes (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce a supplementary redress scheme for the surviving women victims, and surviving next of kin of deceased victims, of Michael Neary, in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth who were not covered by the redress scheme established and who have for long been campaigning for proper recognition [1842/11]

Medical Redress Schemes (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have been a member of an all-party Oireachtas group which, for a considerable period, has been pressing the Minister by every means open to it to acknowledge and provide compensation for the unfortunate women in question. The group is made up of representatives of the Fianna Fáil Party, Fine Gael Party, Labour Party, Sinn Féin and the Green Party across the entire north-east region and...

Medical Redress Schemes (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----also carry their imprimatur. It has been reported that the Minister, in the company of representatives of Patient Focus, indicated to some of the excluded women that they would be catered for, and the Minister has not denied that she made such a statement, including at an engagement that we had with her at one point over this long and protracted lobby. I ask the Minister to respond...

Medical Redress Schemes (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There are five constituencies in the area in which the 35 excluded women, at least those of them who have survived, reside. The Minister, in her response, exposes the weakness in her position. One cannot give to somebody who is not democratically accountable and does not have ministerial responsibility the right to make the final determination as to what is appropriate in a particular...

Medical Redress Schemes (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not with these cases.