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Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to complaints by residents of some direct provision centres that staff have used the threat of transfer or deportation to intimidate them from complaining about conditions in the centre; the steps he will take to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14094/10]

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the accommodation options available to women asylum seekers experiencing domestic violence in view of the fact that women's shelters often have insufficient resources to take them in and they are not allowed to live outside reception and integration agency centres while their applications are pending. [14095/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan is no longer receiving child benefit in respect of their children; and if a letter confirming same will be issue in view of the fact that this is required by six county authorities. [14133/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 has had their social payments suspended since 30 December 2009; and if payments will be restored. [14248/10]

Special Educational Needs: Motion. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Throughout the State, schools, teachers and parents are unsure whether their children with special educational needs will have access to special needs assistants in the morning. A review has been ongoing and has already cut somewhere in the region of 200 to 300 special needs assistants, but the cuts figure could reach 1,200. We do not know the exact figure of how many have already been cut,...

Insurance Industry. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. My primary concern, as I am sure it would be for many Deputies, is for the 2,800 employees of Quinn Insurance Limited in Cavan, Enniskillen, Navan, Dublin, Cork and in Manchester. We recognise the Quinn Group is one of the biggest employers in the Border region and in the country as a whole. What is the Minister's Department doing in...

Insurance Industry. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Do I take it then that the Minister rejects the statement that the appointment of the administrators is placing 5,500 jobs at risk, which is attributed to the board in this morning's newspapers? I ask him to comment. Will he also indicate to the House the role of the administrators? We understand the importance of regulation in terms of public confidence. Is it part of the remit - as I...

Insurance Industry. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Without wishing to cut across Deputy Bruton, could the Minister respond to those two questions first?

EU Summits. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is the Taoiseach's response to Social Justice Ireland's assessment of the European Council's failure to set targets for poverty reduction and educational disadvantage? The Social Justice Ireland commentary on the European Council meeting concluded that European leaders seem to be abandoning the most vulnerable people in Europe. Let us consider the draft EU 2020 strategy presented by...

EU Summits. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is nothing in the Taoiseach's response, in what I have been advised of the European Council engagement last week or, indeed, in the commentary from Social Justice Ireland and others such as the Anti-Poverty Network, that gives me a sense that he utilised his opportunity of representing us at that Council meeting last week to press for a robust anti-poverty strategy. Ireland is not...

EU Summits. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am concluding with this. With so many other voices looking over the work apparently done over the last two days of the past week, these were not good days work in the interest of people who are suffering at the margins of our society and the European Union community. Does the Taoiseach realise that if we do not take this lead, a position that he, the Government and this country can take...

Departmental Groups. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the working groups chaired by his Department and their functions. [11525/10]

Departmental Groups. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the senior officials group on social inclusion still exist? My understanding is that group is chaired by the Taoiseach's Department and part of its brief is to maintain a broad overview in regard to social inclusion issues and to bring emerging topics to the attention of the Cabinet committee on social inclusion. Perhaps the Taoiseach will outline its current status in terms of, if it...

Departmental Groups. (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach confirm that the group is still in existence?

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The agreement which has been reached with the public service unions will now go before their respective memberships. Does the Government intend to afford time in the Chamber to debate the agreement? It has no guarantees that there will be no further cuts in social welfare. It has no provision to rule out any further cuts to the public services delivered by public servants. There are a...

Written Answers — Middle East Peace Process: Middle East Peace Process (30 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he will take to officially break the EU consensus which affords Israel preferential trade by withdrawing Irish consent for this in view of the recent announcement by Israel of its intention to build a further 1,600 illegal settlement houses and the many atrocities committed by that State. [13296/10]

Written Answers — Diplomatic Residences: Diplomatic Residences (30 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question number 307 of 23 February 2010, in which he indicates that it is intended to use the Irish Ambassador's residence in Ottawa, Canada, a building on which his Department just spent $7 million renovating, as an amenity to promote trade with Ireland, if his Department developed and considered detailed...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 24 February 2010, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [13738/10]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (30 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 24 February 2010, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [13739/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 4 November 2009, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [14023/10]