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Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the quota of patients each hospital can refer to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, and the way in which each quota is arrived at. [27112/10]

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the details regarding the agreement reached with the religious orders for the transfer of assets and cash in compensation in respect of persons (details supplied); the way in which she intends to distribute same to those known victims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27113/10]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I, too, support the amendment. The only point I wanted to make, because we have argued this repeatedly here on several occasions, is that perhaps the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, might note for the future that over this past difficult period of work to rule and non-co-operation with elected voices some Ministers behaved with a degree of sane and sensible response by stating the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Speechless.

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will see if we can get a copy of Old Moore's Almanac for the Tánaiste. The Tánaiste says everything will be in due course. Can she indicate if the Government has given serious consideration to the matters raised? We have gone on at length about the important referendum on children's rights yet the Government continues to trundle out the same response that no decision has been made. Is...

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will she at least tell us if the Government has agreed to hold a referendum on children's rights in 2010?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Bill, as I have said today and previously, should not be necessary, but some have argued and we must now accept it is necessary in law for the reasons stated. The Bill arises from the immediate need for the Health Service Executive to provide information to the investigation into the deaths of children in the care of the State established by Minister of State with responsibility for...

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As has been indicated, the coming decade from now until 2020 certainly could be regarded as a decade of many historic milestones, including a series of centenaries. I refer to the centenaries of the aforementioned great lockout in 2013, the Easter Rising in 2016, the Sinn Féin general election victory in 2018 and the first meeting of Dáil Éireann in 2019. These are all important...

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a question. Moreover, as we enter this decade of centenaries that ends in 2020, which will mark the centenary of the partition Act that divided our country, would it not be appropriate for the Government to consider preparing a Green Paper on Irish unity? Again, in the spirit of what I have already indicated, this would be an appropriate contribution. I refer to planning in a...

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----will represent for all the people who share this island today. Does the Taoiseach agree that addressing Irish unity over the course of these centenaries and in advance of the centenary of the first Dáil threatens no section of the people on the island of Ireland and does not in any way take from the agreements that have been entered into, namely, the Good Friday Agreement, the St....

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To take up from the Taoiseach's response, I would have thought that the questions and the manner in which I posed them reflected some of the points indicated in his response. The point at which we disagree is that there is no interrelationship and the Taoiseach spoke of not being intertwined. I believe they offer opportunity. That is the point; that they are not moments in time of...

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a question. I believe that this decade of centenaries offers such an opportunity. I invite the Taoiseach again to reconsider same. The Taoiseach responded earlier to the question on the consultative civic forum. I would welcome progress in that regard. As a member of the North-South Parliamentary Forum working group I record my appreciation of the efforts of the Ceann Comhairle, the...

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach not raise the Dublin and Monaghan bombing motion with the British Prime Minister today? Surely that is a straightforward question?

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That was a reasonable expectation when we supported the all-party motion in the House two years ago. I regret that the Taoiseach has never raised the matter with the British Prime Minister since. It defies credulity. It is an absolute scandal if on the one hand-----

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----the Taoiseach will attend the meeting to address worthy issues such as the Saville report on the events in Derry in 1972 but he will not address the terrible atrocities that were visited on this city and my home town two years later in 1974. It defies understanding.

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I again appeal to the Taoiseach to raise this matter with the British Prime Minister today and continue to do so until we realise the hope and expectation of the motion agreed in July 2008.

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed to. I seek clarification again. I hope that having raised the matter yesterday, the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills will have given further consideration to my request for time to be provided between now and the summer recess in order for the House to address the serious matter of the concerns arising out of both the junior and leaving certificate...

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----but it has been mooted by the print industry time and time again that such work could be broken down and, under all the acceptable norms, apportioned to print entities in this jurisdiction affording work here at home.

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a side issue but it is an important one. The Tánaiste is the former Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and no doubt she has not abandoned any interest she had then in these issues. I appeal to her. Will time be provided? Will the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills allow time, either this week or in the fortnight remaining, to address the issue of the serious...

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Adjournment is not acceptable and I said that to the Ceann Comhairle yesterday. It does not meet what is required.