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Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive surgery; and if the matter can be expedited. [29163/10]

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am a former member of the finance and public service committee and I remember proposing during my five years of service on the committee that it should pay particular attention to the charging practices of the various banking institutions. We prepared and published a report on this and Deputies Bruton, Burton, others and I were very much involved in the exercise. I can consider the...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Perhaps the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will advise of the full list of amendments it is proposed to take together.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to say at the outset that there should be no mistake about it - the regulation of credit unions has not failed. As providers of financial services to communities, they are distinct and, in particular, socially focused. I hate to think what situation countless thousands of citizens and businesses would be in if they were unable to avail of the credit union network and disposition we...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Again, the Sinn Féin Deputies strongly object to the imposition of a guillotine which will see the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill conclude here at 5 p.m. It is totally inadequate to address the complexities of the legislation and the long list of amendments that have been presented from across the floor. It is just not acceptable and it is bad, bad politics for the Government to...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I note from this morning's newspapers that the HSE managers are not planning to publish critical reports into the deaths of two teenagers in State care, specifically the deaths of Tracey Fay and David Foley. This is a very alarming further exposure of the HSE's disposition to the issue of State care provision for children. It again lays emphasis on the need for specific steps to be taken in...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I make this request in light of the further exposure of the HSE's attitude towards the information at their hands. Yesterday, I asked about the health information Bill which, if it was expedited, would assist in ensuring that this information-----

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----flow to the public would happen as a matter of course. I ask the Tánaiste, on the national vetting bureau Bill, if the Government will ensure that it is published immediately or upon on the resumption of the new term following the summer recess. Yesterday, I received a reply from the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Martin Mansergh, to a parliamentary question...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, I am asking a question about promised legislation that now no longer appears-----

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ------on the list of committed legislation. The properties concerned include Government buildings, the GPO and Garda and army barracks. It also affects many ordinary citizens. I refer to the ground rent Bill. It has been a matter of titter when it was raised in the past.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Make no mistake about it, this State and the public finances are being robbed on an annual basis by underground landlords. We want to see an end to this practice and the only way it can be done is by the introduction of a ground rent Bill that will put into the past for good and forever this outrageous arrangement.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Tánaiste bring the Bill back?

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am not responsible for the acoustics.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am not responsible for the poor acoustics in this House. A few moments ago when I raised something which happened in the past number of days we did not hear what was said. The Tánaiste indicated in her first reply-----

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----that something would be published later this year. Could she repeat it?

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before that she said something else.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I had hoped that she would tell us for the first time that there would be a referendum on children's rights. Sadly, that is not the case.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We must accept that we are very far behind other developed countries' response to review of regulatory practices in their respective areas of responsibility. In the neighbouring island, the Turner review was completed and presented in March 2009. We have just had the two reports in recent weeks. It is critical to have ongoing direct oversight and knowledge of the implementation of...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We had addressed only a handful of amendments to the Central Bank Reform Bill by 10 p.m. last night. Substantial amendments have been put forward by Opposition Members in this Chamber and there will not be an opportunity to address those if the guillotine applies to the debate on the Bill as the Government proposes. Why does the Government continue to deal with the banks and the financial...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no evidence of that. That attitude was demonstrated again last evening in the Government's address of the amendments tabled to this Bill. It is shameful and I absolutely object to this legislation being pressed through, which is a totally inadequate response to what is needed now.