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Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appeal to the Tánaiste to answer to all of these questions.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I too support the proposition put forward by Deputy Kenny but with no disrespect to the proposition, it does not go far enough. The Minister should be recalled. There can be no other answer in this situation. Have no doubt about it, if the host people in New Zealand were aware of the backdrop to her presence in that country, they would be incredulous that she was there at all.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They would never tolerate a similar situation in regard to a member of Government with responsibility for health in their country, who was off doing business somewhere else when the situation at home was in total disarray. Make no mistake about it - this is a very serious matter. The fundamental basis of the relationship between general practitioners and consultants in our acute hospital...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Who has oversight of their responsibilities?

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: You have, a Cheann Comhairle. I am suggesting there are further matters that need to be addressed.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This House should be recalled next week with the Minister present before the Dáil. The matter is of such gravity-----

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A Cheann Comhairle, I am not being flippant about this. The matter is of such gravity that the Minister has every right to make her way back home to face the questions of the Members of this House and to answer the questions that were not answered yesterday, with no disrespect to the Minister of State with responsibility for children, who was not informed enough to answer the questions....

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It has grown overnight.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the support of the House to bring home the Minister so she would be accountable to this House and to the people of Ireland.

Written Answers — Mortgage Arrears: Mortgage Arrears (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance when the new personal debt committee will be established; if the membership will be representative of groups affected by personal debt; when same will report; if he is committed to implementing the committee's proposals, even if they incur a cost to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11453/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has decided on the membership of the commission of inquiry; if he will take suggestions from political parties in the Houses of the Oireachtas on suitable members for the inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11452/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason that Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 7 July 2009, No. 189 of 21 October 2009 and No. 156 of 1 December 2009, and the query made directly to the parliamentary affairs division of the Health Service Executive on 1 February 2010 and again on 1 March 2010, regarding the number and subjects of unpublished or redacted reports...

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister of State accept that we are looking at another scandal in our health services? Would the Taoiseach like to revisit his own position on the issue this morning? In my view, he showed scant regard for the cases already addressed, which have led to the loss of one life and the diagnosis of cancer in another case. There are also 14,000 patients who are obviously in great...

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How could that happen? Is there a parallel inquiry or investigation into the number of unopened orthopaedic referral letters and other referral letters from GPs to that hospital or any other hospital? How many consultant radiologists were in Tallaght between 2005 and 2009? How does the Minister of State account for the fact that the former CEO of the hospital told officials from HIQA last...

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If my voice does not give up on me, Deputy Rabbitte will have to be patient and allow me to finish. The Minister has admitted that she only learned of this scandal on 15 December, and only as a secondary matter in a meeting with the chief executive at Tallaght hospital on another issue. Is the Minister negligent for not inquiring about the number of cases involved when this matter was first...

Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The proposition presented to us by the Chief Whip is not only dangerous but also unacceptable. It cannot be acceptable to the House. It should not be acceptable to the Government. It is not acceptable to the Opposition, as voices have already recorded, and I add our view to that. Without question, the Order Paper is exactly as has been read into the record. It was adopted here this...

Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before the Minister responds, I think it fair that, in recognition of the position he has adopted regarding the collective concerns of the Opposition, he has the assurance of all the Opposition parties that they respect the position he has articulated here and his intent and we will honour that when this presents itself again in the future. I commend the Minister's open-mindedness to the...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach indicate if there will be an opportunity for the House to address the scandalous situation vis-À-vis the 57,000 X-rays at Tallaght hospital? When will the Minister for Health and Children present before this Chamber, or a Minister of State in her Department in her absence, take the opportunity to address this issue substantively in this House? There are many serious...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach intervene? It is well within his gift, given the importance and seriousness of the matter, to intervene to accommodate an opportunity for it. I do not know when the Minister is due to return to Ireland. I realise she is currently out of the country but that should not prevent the House addressing this matter from an informed and definitely focused basis. Will the...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have tabled a private notice question. Will the Ceann Comhairle clarify if he would be prepared to accommodate that request?