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Hospital Accommodation (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Health and Children in view of the record number of patients on trolleys and chairs in accident and emergency departments of our public hospitals during January 2011, if she has carried out an assessment of the likely impact on this situation of the cuts to the health budget imposed in Budget 2011 and the further cuts signalled for 2012, 2013 and 2014;...

Hospital Accommodation (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Last week, a record-breaking number of 569 patients were on trolleys and chairs in the accident and emergency departments of our public hospitals, and today's figure is 442. I know the Minister and the HSE consistently refuse to accept the figures presented by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. As in so many other areas, the Government has its own figures, but few are buying it. I...

Hospital Accommodation (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join with the Minister in stating that it is sad to note that anyone has fallen victim to swine flu. We convey our sympathies to the families concerned. When the Minister makes the point about more from less, will she not acknowledge that all we are seeing is more anguish, more stress for patients and front line service providers in our accident and emergency departments, and more people...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it is proposed to publish the Bill to provide for a constitutional amendment on children's rights and when it is proposed to hold the referendum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1771/11]

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To raise a brief point, while there no proposals the Tánaiste has nevertheless indicated the ordering of business for today in respect of the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010. Sinn Féin Deputies object to the facilitation of this proposal. This legislation will spell the unravelling of our postal services and An Post, threaten the existing service to rural Ireland and...

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----call a vote on it.

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Tánaiste still have unreserved confidence in her Taoiseach?

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does she still maintain-----

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----as she has done in recent days-----

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a context, which is critical. Does the Tánaiste still maintain, as she has done in recent days, that he met "nobody in particular" at Druid's Glen? None of that is credible.

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: After the further revelations yesterday, surely-----

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----even her staunch adherence to and support for the Taoiseach cannot maintain. When will the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance come to the House to make final, and full and frank statements on all that was known in the months leading up to the bank guarantee in September 2008? That has never been done and we are still in an exercise of extracting in a drip-feed way-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----critical, salient and important information. Will the Tánaiste ensure that the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance will, if not today then in the coming week, come before the Dáil and make a clean breast of all that they knew-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----including the date-by-date sequence of all the information brought to their attention in the lead-up to the bank guarantee in September 2008?

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The critical point is that the Government cannot continue to treat the people as fools.

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Without any question-----

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----the complete fools in all of this-----

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----are those who had the opportunity for formal engagement with Anglo Irish Bank and the other financial institutions and clearly had a very special opportunity in informal and social engagements with these same players-----

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----that they would not have known-----

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----more than they claimed in terms of a liquidity situation as was put before the House.