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Agreements with Members (10 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the nature of arrangements in place for his office to provide special assistance to those non-party Deputies who support the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41383/10]

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The programme for Government has a very explicit commitment to maintain the pupil-teacher ratio in primary and second level schools. Is the Taoiseach in a position to give us confirmation and affirmation that there will be no measures in the budget on 7 December that will in any way dilute that commitment or see an expansion of the pupil-teacher ratio? It is quite particular. The programme...

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would not have thought so. Surely, this is within the bounds of what I have tabled in Questions Nos. 5 and 6.

Benchmarking Pay Awards (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I beg the Ceann Comhairle's pardon. I apologise to the Taoiseach. I believed we were dealing with the programme for Government - mea culpa.

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made in the implementation of the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32335/10]

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the arrangements that are in place, if any, for the monitoring of the implementation of the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32336/10]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will rule out any further reductions in the number of special needs assistants posts in budget 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41263/10]

Written Answers — Student Registration Fee: Student Registration Fee (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will rule out any increase in the student registration fee in budget 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41262/10]

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if women in direct provision centres have been consulted directly to establish their views on whether women-only centres are warranted or desirable for they and their children's safety. [41400/10]

Written Answers — Motor Vehicle Registration: Motor Vehicle Registration (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 340: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a vehicle (details supplied) is subject to commercial tax or private tax. [41142/10]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 373: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the proposed decentralisation to Cavan; the accommodation arrangements in place; the numbers of staff already transferred; the current status of the 11 acre site purchased; the cost of same; his intentions regarding the overall decentralisation proposal; and if he will make a statement...

Reform of Structures of Government: Motion (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Deputies Howlin and Burton for the opportunity to contribute to the debate at this point. The economic crisis has led to a widespread debate not only about the nature of the Irish economy but also about how we are governed. There is justifiable anger among the people at how successive Governments they elected have so misgoverned and mismanaged this State that they have brought us to...

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same issue-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will be brief. Will the Taoiseach join other Deputies in asking the Conference for Religious in Ireland to meet representatives of the victims of the Magdalene laundries? This is an issue on which, I hope, the House could unanimously agree and encourage. On the point relating to the redress scheme-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To keep matters simple, will the Government, however belatedly, agree that the women in question will be included on the terms of the redress scheme?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How are we to interpret the decision of the Minister for Social Protection to take up the role of director of elections for the Fianna Fáil Party candidate in the Donegal South-West by-election-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----in relation to the concerns of pensioners, those dependent on social welfare, carers, and so on? Has the Minister successfully defended those dependent on social welfare or has he given up in terms of protecting their needs in the Government's considerations vis-À-vis the forthcoming budget?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When does the Government intend to publish the Social Welfare Bill that may be anticipated at this point?

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Kenny has stolen my lines. On the issue I raised mistakenly before this group of questions was reached, the programme for Government is clear in its commitment to avoid any increase in the pupil-teacher ratio in either primary or second level schools and uses the phrase, "for the lifetime of this Government". I again suggest to the Taoiseach that his unwillingness to affirm the...

Programme for Government (9 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a question to the Taoiseach. It states that the delivery of the new consultants' contract would help to ensure equity of access. I recently raised with the Taoiseach the issue whereby it was necessary for some 296 consultants in the public hospital system to be written to by the clinical directors and the hospital managers in their respective locations with regard to their breaches of...