Results 11,801-11,820 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is indeed. It is the precedent day after day.
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If it is only what I am saying that the Ceann Comhairle does not like, that is tough. The fact of the matter is that we should not be having this Order of Business today. The Taoiseach has not got the support of either his own party or his coalition partners-----
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----who indicated yesterday that they no longer have confidence in him.
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is the only example I can think of from history where rats have given notice of their intention to abandon the sinking ship some weeks or months in advance.
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No. The fact of the matter is that the proposition-----
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----is absolutely unacceptable.
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Government is seeking to cling on to power in order to straitjacket the Irish electorate into a budget it is not prepared to support-----
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and a four-year plan, the detail of which it has not yet seen. It is absolutely unacceptable.
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Furthermore, an IMF and ECB debt is to be strapped around our shoulders for generations.
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No.
- Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is unacceptable, we will not accept it and we are calling on the Government to resign and on the Taoiseach to allow the people a chance to have their say.
- Public Service Reform (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There are marked differences between the Taoiseach and me regarding how to describe the Department of Health and Children and the situation relating to our network of public hospital sites. The second report of the organisational review programme was published in the first week of October. Is there a timeframe regarding the implementation of the recommendations in the report, particularly...
- Northern Ireland Issues (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach his views on extending the remit of the North and South Ministerial Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41387/10]
- Northern Ireland Issues (23 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Taoiseach aware that on 14 September in the Assembly, the Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Michael McGimpsey, advised the Stormont Assembly that he had agreed with the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, not to publish or bring forward the feasibility report on North-South co-operation on the issue of health? This issue has been raised at a...
- Written Answers — EU Budgets: EU Budgets (18 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if agreement has been reached on the EU budget for 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43326/10]
- Human Rights Issues (18 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the recent release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi [43325/10]
- Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are being asked to address in statements the issues before us over a 95 minute period with a limited opportunity for questions following and no opportunity at all to record where Members stand on them. We are only having clarity because we have had the Taoiseach and Ministers across all portfolios trundled out over the past week and more in an exercise of denial clearly to deceive the...
- Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have no doubt that they will. The Government is here cap in glove looking for moneys to come in to further bail out the banks, which they, in turn, will hand back to the ECB. The tax paying public in this State will pay for all of this.
- Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is the situation we now face. It is absolutely unacceptable that we are not being provided with an opportunity to express in real terms by either electronic means or manual division in this House our outright objection and rejection of what is proposed.
- Suspension of Member (18 Nov 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is what needs to be tested because there are voices on the Government benches who equally reject what is now unfolding and this is a consequence of this Government's failure. I believe it should be put to the test and an opportunity for a vote on a specific proposition should be before this us today. I object to the proposal that we have statements only in the way the Government has...