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Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Give me a moment. A general election date has not been declared but watching the Taoiseach this morning I see the battle has begun already. Yesterday an official of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform attended a briefing in Leinster House and advised of the likelihood of the mental capacity Bill being published in April. Given that the heads of that Bill are already agreed...

State Visits. (24 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the March 2010 meeting of the European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3459/10]

State Visits. (24 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he proposes for the year 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3460/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the medical entitlements of asylum seekers in direct provision; and if they are subject to restrictions in relation to which general practitioner they are allowed to visit. [9407/10]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (24 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that she has taken to address the mental health crisis among asylum seekers. [9409/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (24 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 16 September 2009, the position regarding same. [9633/10]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (24 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No 250 of 20 October 2009, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [9634/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (24 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 26 November 2009, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [9635/10]

Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (24 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of homeless asylum seekers; the services available to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9408/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to findings of The Poor Can't Pay Coalition that identified that the social welfare payments of many categories of beneficiary meant that their income was considerably below the poverty line; and her plans to act on these findings. [8682/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on increasing the payments given to persons who are caring for the sick and disabled due to the increase in cost associated with their care. [8681/10]

Written Answers — Central Statistics Office: Central Statistics Office (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 139: To ask the Taoiseach the EU or UN meeting or conference, since 2004, in which the Central Statistics Office has participated in relation to the collection of statistics; and the EU or UN meeting or conference since 2004 at which another State body has represented the CSO. [9197/10]

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses across all sectors that have advised the Revenue Commissioners that they have ceased trading in each month of 2009 and in January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8667/10]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce legislation requiring labels on alcohol products to warn of the dangers of drinking during pregnancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8758/10]

Written Answers — Assisted Human Reproduction: Assisted Human Reproduction (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 257: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 1 July 2009, her plans to introduce legislation in the area of surrogate parenthood in light of the R[i]v[/i]R judgement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9229/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 367: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the delay in processing a jobseeker's application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if this will be expedited. [8839/10]

Hospital Procedures. (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for this opportunity to raise this matter on the Adjournment of the House but it is a disgrace on the part of the Government that we should have to return to the issue of symphysiotomy by way of an Adjournment debate. An inquiry into this barbaric practice should already have been held, reported and acted upon. It is shame on the Minister for Health and Children...

Hospital Procedures. (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was a sickening sight. This is the man who carried out numerous mutilations of women through unnecessary hysterectomies. The programme revealed he is implicated in the symphysiotomy scandal as well. This alone merits full inquiry. I call on the Minister for Health and Children to act immediately to establish an inquiry into this scandal. It should be headed by a competent and...

Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The matter I wish to raise has been already raised in part this afternoon. Will the Taoiseach inform the House of the date for publication of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority report? It is imperative that the House knows exactly when this report will be published. Serious allegations published in the media in recent days in regard to this report suggest it is being sat upon and...

Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----published and addressed on the floor of this House.