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Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department pays allowances to former taoisigh to maintain personal assistants; the former taoisigh to whom such allowances are or have been paid; the amount per annum of each allowance; the cost of the allowance in 2010; the cost since their introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the facilities and allowances provided by his Department to former taoisigh; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the Taoiseach's response he indicated that former taoisigh are entitled to the service of two secretarial assistants for five years following the completion of their terms of office as Taoiseach and also to have one secretarial assistant thereafter for whatever length of time for their lifetime. Is it the case that if they also continue to be serving Members of the Dáil - each of us as...

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, I am asking the Taoiseach if he is aware that a sum of €114,000 was allocated for the provision of the additional secretarial assistants because the former Taoiseach was in that post. Is he aware that a sum in excess of €300,000 has been claimed by the former Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, since the introduction of the scheme? Is he aware that over the past decade the former...

Public Service Reform (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the plan entitled Transforming Public Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24335/10]

Public Service Reform (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach accept that there can be no real and progressive reform of the public services while the current embargo on recruitment is in place? Would he not accept that the ban on recruitment is a very blunt instrument that takes no account of the need to maintain and improve public services to people, front-line services in particular? It is having a detrimental effect across all...

Public Service Reform (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Very good. I have mentioned the local authorities. Is the Taoiseach also aware of the impact it is having on our health services? In particular is he aware that over the next three years if the current recruitment embargo is to remain in place we will lose a further 6,000 posts? We will have a further 6,000 unfilled posts as a result of that embargo over the next three years if it is to...

Public Service Reform (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Both UNITE and the INMO rejected the Croke Park deal but has the Taoiseach noted they have accepted that the greater number of public service workers across all the unions representing them have decided to accept the deal, and both UNITE and the INMO have in turn accepted such a position and are now willing to work with it? In that context, would the Taoiseach be prepared to demonstrate some...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the assessment of the One Family organisation that the cuts he proposes making to the one parent family payment scheme will worsen the poverty traps experienced by lone parents; and if he will accordingly withdraw the Bill. [27966/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the definition of suitable employment for the purposes of determining if a claimant of jobseeker's allowance has been made an offer of employment that is in fact suitable. [27965/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the statement of the Health Service Executive's assistant national director for children and families social services that no Irish child will be sent overseas for care placements from 12 months time; the provisions for care placements that will be made available for children who previously would have been sent...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a commitment that any child in need of specialised care that has previously not been provided here will now be provided with that care here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27683/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children sent overseas for care placements during 2009; the cost per child; the care placement locations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27684/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who requested aftercare services on leaving the care of the State during 2008 and 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27685/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who began to receive aftercare during 2008 and 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27686/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children who have received aftercare from the Health Service Executive during each of the past five years; and the number of persons who have been monitored upon leaving aftercare during each of the past five years. [28041/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average number of families it refers per month to the Ballymun Men's Resource Centre for child contact services, in the absence of a State network of child contact services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27687/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the numbers and locations of specialist Health Service Executive facilities for supervised contact with children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27688/10]

Written Answers — Nursing Education: Nursing Education (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of the funding that has been made available and the number of places that will be provided in the higher diploma in nursing sexual assault forensic nursing examination in the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland in September 2010. [27689/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons on the organ transplant waiting list; if she will provide a breakdown of the organs they are waiting for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27690/10]