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Care of the Elderly (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach today tried to minimise what was revealed in the "Prime Time Investigates" programme showing the neglect and abuse of older people by private home care providers under contract to the HSE. He spoke of four cases, as if it concerned only four older people. This is a total misrepresentation. The programme covered two major home care providers which were given the task of caring...

Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There are 34 amendments on Report Stage of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill and yet a guillotine will apply-----

Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am aware of that but, as with the previous speaker, I am making it clear that this is unacceptable because a calculation of the time - and this is a time proposition - suggests we have less than one hour to address the amendments on Report Stage when we have gone through the various steps that have to be taken to order the rest of the business. It is not acceptable. The proposition is to...

Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Even as the Minister was publishing the Bill, the Government was announcing amendments to it. Sections were introduced in the Bill as the process was moving forward. It is unacceptable. Debating 34 amendments within that short period of time will not afford the House the opportunity to deal properly with this legislation. The Taoiseach was offering a modicum of assistance earlier but...

Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I noted the Taoiseach's response on the finance Bill. Can he tell us whether other legislation arising from last week's budget is also in the pipeline? Are there one or more Bills yet to present? When will the Taoiseach be in a position to advise on whether such legislation is in the process of preparation and when it will be published? With regard to the Bills the Green Party is pressing...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A Cheann Comhairle, I thank you at the outset for the opportunity to address the issue highlighted in the "Prime Time" programme last evening, that is, the disgraceful treatment of elder citizens by so-called home care providers, under the matters selected for the Adjournment. Tomorrow, the Taoiseach will seek the endorsement of the Dáil for the Government's sell-out deal with the IMF. I...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have already asked two questions, a Cheann Comhairle, and I will ask a few more. The IMF is the body to which the Taoiseach wants to sell out the remaining economic sovereignty we have in this State. Will he not now grasp the opportunity in this eleventh hour moment and not proceed with this shameful deal, given that the IMF's board has itself decided to postpone the final sign-off,...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am concluding with this. I am appealing to him not to burden this and future generations with a bank bailout debt created by the gamblers who gambled on Anglo Irish Bank and other corrupt banks, and who lost. I am asking-----

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will he heed the cry of the people and those who are already hurting in our society as they say, "This is not our debt - we did not take this gamble"?

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach not accept that the alternative is that we should not be paying this bank bailout debt and that, if it is the case that the Sinn Féin propositions fall in any way short in terms of current spending, we would be infinitely better off going to the open market and paying additional percentages for a much smaller sum of money, thus retaining our control, self determination and...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Surely, I can have a moment to do so.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking the Taoiseach how he can reconcile the prediction by his Government in the so-called national recovery plan - a national impoverishment plan, as I referred to it earlier - that there will be 5% GDP growth between 2010 and 2012 with the EU Commission prediction of 2.8% growth, that consumer spending will increase by 1% when the Commission claims it will decrease by 2.8% and that...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How does the Taoiseach reconcile these widely divergent views and predictions in regard to the future, and with a body with whom the Government is entering into a fixed deal for many years to come? I ask that the Taoiseach take the opportunity to talk to his advisers and to listen to the alternative views, if not from the political parties lined up in this Chamber, to the other...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----by the voluntary community sector, the trade union movement and ever growing number of economists. It is not too late. There is a better way.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, we are talking about bank bailouts.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I asked how the Taoiseach reconciled them.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am not commending them to the Taoiseach at all.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is bank bailout debt, not sovereign debt. Put it back in the category it belongs.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach is totally misrepresenting me.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach is misleading the Dáil, as he has done every day as Taoiseach-----