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Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That was not a response.

Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was not a response.

Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I know the consequences. That is why I am asking the Taoiseach the question. This is a serious matter.

Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the support this afternoon-----

Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the support for my call last week on every sitting day that the Minister for Health and Children-----

Official Engagements (19 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can the Taoiseach advise us on whether the Council, during the course of the meeting of 16 September, addressed the serious impact of the current economic situation on the lives of ordinary citizens, particularly that of rising unemployment across many member states? Was any consideration given to curbing the considerable powers of the international credit rating agencies and bond markets,...

Official Engagements (19 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----that the last time an outside agency called for more evictions on this island, we had landlord rule under the Union Jack. Has the Taoiseach responded to that statement by Fitch? Would he join this Deputy in roundly rejecting its call for more evictions and repossessions?

Official Engagements (19 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I asked whether the Council meeting of 16 September addressed the impact of the current economic situation on the lives of ordinary citizens, with a particular focus on the growing level of unemployment here and across the greater number of member states.

Official Engagements (19 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is there no way of curbing their power?

Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the total budget allocated and spent by the Health Service Executive on homeless services in 2009 and to date in 2010. [36860/10]

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 6 October 2010, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the British Government opted into Directive 2003/9/EC on the right to work of asylum seekers without any apparent implications for the common travel area; in view of this, to explain the reason he believes that the common...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of claimants of rent supplement and mortgage interest supplement, by quarter, from January to September 2010 [36917/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 200: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total budget allocated and spent by his Department on homeless services in 2009 and to date in 2010. [36861/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 201: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total budget allocated and spent by his Department on the capital assistance scheme in 2009 and to date in 2010. [36862/10]

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thought the Ceann Comhairle would have called me first this morning given that Sinn Féin is the only remaining Opposition party in the House.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The normal procedure is that the largest Opposition party starts off the engagement with the Taoiseach or Tánaiste. For the information of the pro-Lisbon, pro-slash and burn until 2014 parties, there is an Opposition party in this House which has not been included in any engagement.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister can keep the old guff to himself. It is not only Sinn Féin which has been excluded; independent voices who have a right to be heard have also been excluded. It is not only the Government which has excluded; Fine Gael and the Labour Party will be complicit in this exclusion if they continue to give this process their blessing.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have heard references to "Opposition parties" this morning. Let us be clear, the term does not refer to all Opposition parties. Opposition voices here should be willing and prepared to make that distinction and should not allow the Government off with its policy of exclusion, which is an absolute disgrace. I will ask the Tánaiste about two matters, one of which I raised with the...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----as this issue is being discussed in every possible media outlet and in wider society but has yet to be addressed in this House by a Minister who refuses to make herself available on the issue.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On a second matter, Deputy Reilly indicated his awareness, and full marks to him, of the disgraceful happenings once again within the hospital sites within the north east region regarding the loss of further beds-----