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Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There will be no debate.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To rush the measures through.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: One thing was in evidence yesterday with the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill; it is in evidence again today with this Bill, and it will certainly be in evidence over the next week and the week following. I refer to the Government's guillotine approach in the last couple of weeks leading into the Christmas recess. The Local Government (Dublin Mayor and Regional...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government has signalled the social welfare Bill for the coming week. Clearly, it will be guillotined and rushed through. Will the finance Bill be published next week or the following week? Has the Government made a decision yet with regard to any extended sittings of the Dáil during the remaining two weeks of the signalled session? Will the Government heed the appeals of Opposition...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In her response to the earlier questions the Tánaiste indicated the finance Bill would be brought forward by "some weeks". How does the Tánaiste translate "some weeks"? How many weeks is that? Is there a possibility that the finance Bill may present before Christmas? Is the Dáil to sit for an extended time in the coming week and the week following before the signalled recess at...

Tributes to Head Usher of the Houses of the Oireachtas (2 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On behalf of the Sinn Féin Deputies, I join colleagues in extending our warmest good wishes to Shay Byrne and Liam Lynch on their retirement from the service of the Houses of the Oireachtas this week. Over my 13 plus years here, Shay has epitomised the graciousness that is a quality of all the usher staff here and I do not only mean to the Members of both Houses. As Deputy Gilmore...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State in his reply made reference to representations either to the Department of Health and Children or through it, to the parliamentary affairs division of the Health Service Executive, regarding the speed of response to parliamentary questions tabled by Members. I am awaiting replies to parliamentary questions I submitted to that Department in early to mid-June this year,...

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----the High Court's was indeed the appropriate reply and, in the event, if there are questions to be addressed. The issue for us as elected politicians is to ensure, by consensus here, that we will not allow a situation to obtain in the future where the Government of the day can delay the exercise of the democratic right of any constituency to fill a vacancy, in order to suit its...

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to be patient.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is relevant and tiresome. Allow me to finish my point. This reduction translates to a €40 a week reduction in pay for a 40-hour week, which most people work in the services sector. In the context of Dáil reform there is nothing at all in the proposals presented, and this is causing enormous and understandable anger across the country about ministerial salaries and the arrangements...

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A Cheann Comhairle, can you not understand that this is part of Dáil reform, the remuneration of Members of the House?

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With all due respect to the Ceann Comhairle, haranguing Members in here is simply not acceptable.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am and I have just done that. That is exactly the context in which I posed my question. This is another critical element of Dáil reform and it must be addressed. I await the Minister of State's reply.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was 12 months ago.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I ask a brief supplementary?

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State said that 96% of parliamentary questions received by the HSE in the first part of this year have been responded to. However, the 12 plus questions I have posed, covering a number of areas, including vetting arrangements in regard to those with responsibility for care of children in the State's control, remain part of the outstanding 4%. These are important questions...

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Deputy should not rule us out so soon.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, it is not agreed to. Before agreeing, I seek clarification from the Taoiseach. I refer again to the matter I raised with him yesterday regarding the constitutionality of the IMF agreement. Has the Taoiseach sought legal advice in respect of the position he has taken in this House in response to this Deputy and others? Has the Taoiseach referred the matter to the Attorney General?

Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: All too sadly, it has everything to do with it. Finally, when will the memorandum of agreement, as well as any other technical data pertaining to that agreement, be published? While I will reserve my final point to the Order of Business proper in respect of promised legislation, what steps, if any, has the Taoiseach taken to establish the accuracy of the position he argues, namely, that it...