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Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 258: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of preschool facilities across the State. [7906/10]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has appointed an assistant national director with responsibility for children and family services; the details of this appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7911/10]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of a strategy in place in her Department to deal with the high levels of children who go missing from care each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7907/10]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to ensure greater regional equity in the deployment of social workers. [7908/10]

Written Answers — Foster Care: Foster Care (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in foster care with relatives throughout the State; the number of these relatives who have received clearance through Garda vetting prior to placing children in their care; the number who received clearance through Garda vetting after children had been placed in their care; and the number who have not been...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons employed in residential facilities for children in care who have not yet received Garda clearance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7910/10]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 542: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding his proposals to allow existing local authority mortgage holders to re-mortgage without triggering the claw-back; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8088/10]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 527: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress that has been made on the implementation of the recommendations in the report of the Ombudsman on Waste Waiver Schemes Administered by Local Authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7932/10]

Written Answers — Commissions of Inquiry: Commissions of Inquiry (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 580: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the date on which persons (details supplied) were removed from the payroll of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse; the last date on which these individuals received payment from the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7912/10]

Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the context of the disgraceful incident where two kidneys and a pancreas intended for human transplant purposes in this State were not used and were sent abroad because the unit in Beaumont Hospital had no available beds, what action will the Taoiseach take to ensure that the Department of Health and Children and the Health Service Executive guarantee, which is their responsibility, that...

Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a hugely important issue. In the context of legislation, several Bills could impact on this and I refer specifically to the licensing of health facilities Bill. Will the Taoiseach intervene with the Department of Health and Children to have this Bill and others, including the eligibility Bill which we have raised with him nearly weekly since he took office, brought forward? When will...

Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply but the reality is Irish patients are a long time waiting for transplants and they have now been denied an opportunity. It is a very serious matter for those people and their families. It is a serious human issue. I urge the Taoiseach to consider the matter in Beaumont and if it is the case that we will have greater availability of organs, it would be...

Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of people willing to give their organs.

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Whatever about the statement to be heard, the facts themselves are damning. A Cabinet Minister made a sworn affidavit to the High Court-----

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will have the opportunity to speak as others have already spoken.

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am not making derogatory remarks; I am stating the facts.

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am making no false accusation about anybody. I am recording what we know to be the case. A Cabinet Minister misled the High Court with a sworn affidavit falsely claiming that he did not make a grossly defamatory statement against an individual citizen who was then a candidate in the local government elections.

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is what happened.

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not an allegation. The Minister subsequently withdrew the affidavit and, indeed, admitted the defamation. He did this while a Cabinet Minister. This was not a case between two members of the public, as the Taoiseach would have-----