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Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I too object to the Dáil's not returning until 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday of next week. We have made the case repeatedly, not only last week but again this week, for the Minister for Health and Children, whom I have yet to see in the Chamber this week, to come to the House to address the serious issues with our health services. I will highlight only two of these: the debacle of the relocation...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of anticipated cuts in the health budget of between €600 million and €1 billion in 2011. We need to address these matters because our health service is already seriously underfunded and depleted.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am objecting to that-----

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am proposing that we come back here on Tuesday as normal and have the Minister for Health and Children address these serious matters, which are being discussed in every other forum imaginable but not on the floor of this Dáil. We need more time to debate the current fiscal difficulties and the economy, and both of these matters could be provided for. In order to get through to the...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----we need to have these arguments on the floor of the House.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: For both of these reasons, I propose that we return here next Tuesday as normal.

Written Answers — Commemorative Events: Commemorative Events (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department has an outline commemorative programme up to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32345/10]

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Shame on the Minister for using such terminology.

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is not saying much.

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to a reply by the Minister to my Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 18 May 2010 in which I asked him to publish the full list of bondholders involved in Anglo Irish Bank, in view of the fact that Anglo Irish Bank is in State ownership and given the extent of the Irish public's exposure. The Minister replied that detailed information on bondholders of domestic credit institutions'...

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will cite a small number of them: Alliance Global Investors France SA, Barclays Wealth Managers France, BlueBay Asset Management Ltd, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Brown, Shipley & Co Ltd, Crédit Suisse Asset Management, Deutsche Asset Management Investmentgesellschaft, European Credit Management Ltd, Frankfurt - Trust Investment, W&W Asset Management and WGZ Asset Bank Luxembourg. I...

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister still not know who they are?

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are talking about Anglo Irish Bank bonds.

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister elevated their investment.

Ministerial Appointments (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is more than two years since the abuses among executives and board members of FÁS were exposed, yet the same appointments regime is in place despite repeated calls by this Deputy and others over many years for a system to which Deputy Gilmore has referred in the context of the new revised programme for Government, which comes under the heading "Enhancing Our Democracy and Public...

Code of Conduct for Office Holders (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach his plans to amend the Code of Conduct for Office Holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32341/10]

Code of Conduct for Office Holders (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Kenny did not cite the most appropriate section of the code of conduct, where it states that office holders are required to "conscientiously and prudently apply the resources of their office in furtherance of the public interest, and to ensure that the use of officially provided facilities are designed to give the public value for money". Does the Taoiseach agree with me that the code...

Code of Conduct for Office Holders (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----wholly inappropriate and in breach of the code of conduct. Will the Taoiseach not be quite specific and state clearly that he recognises that this action was not only inappropriate but in breach of the code of conduct, in line with what I have directly cited from it?

Code of Conduct for Office Holders (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is my question. I am asking the Taoiseach whether he accepts that the actions of the Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, were in breach of the code of conduct in that instance, and will he again outline what steps he is taking to ensure there will be no repetition of what is clearly a patent abuse?

Code of Conduct for Office Holders (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not accept that is the full story. Whether the Minister had an appointment next day in no way excuses the transport arrangements he put in place for that journey to Glenties. I am surprised at the Taoiseach's response given that the Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, stated at a subsequent Ógra Fianna Fáil event-----