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- Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is not, as the Taoiseach would have had us believe earlier this afternoon, a matter between two private citizens.
- Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This action was taken and performed by a sitting member of the Cabinet. Make no mistake about it. This is a serious matter and, as others have said, the facilitation of a statement alone is totally inadequate. The right of Members to properly question the Minister is something that should be upheld by the Taoiseach and insisted upon by the Ceann Comhairle. Furthermore, based on the facts...
- Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----the Minister should either take the appropriate action of standing down or the Taoiseach take the action of standing him down.
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the cost of the communications unit in his Department in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3456/10]
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is a gravely serious matter. If the communications unit did not bring the information regarding Minister O'Dea's withdrawal of the allegation in the affidavit he presented to the High Court earlier in the year and the Minister did not inform the Taoiseach prior to his apology and retraction in the High Court-----
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will ask the questions and the Taoiseach can then answer them. On where does the Taoiseach rely for information flow if his Ministers do not give him at least a heads up regarding such a serious matter or the communications unit does not bring it to his attention? It brings into question the Minister, in the first instance, and the focus of this set of questions regarding the...
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not an allegation.
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a fact already established.
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In terms of the focus of these questions, sadly there is more that should be addressed here at this point. Will the Taoiseach offer the House a sample of exactly what the communications unit present and bring to his attention? We have no evidence of what it does only what we have learned today, namely, that it does not bring such matters of grave importance to the Taoiseach's attention.
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is what the Taoiseach has indicated to us.
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What does the communications unit do and what does it report to the Taoiseach? What information does it provide to him on a daily basis to justify the expenditure on it of so much public money?
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach is stating that Ministers have two different lives; they can divorce political commentary in their respective constituencies from their role as Ministers. I find the answer incredible. The code of ethics and conduct that applies to Ministers must be in effect at all times with regard to their holding an office. There cannot be a relaxation to the point that they can publicly...
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is outrageous to claim the Minister has no accountability for such actions and utterances. Ministers should at all times be accountable.
- Freedom of Information. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests acceded to; the number refused in his Department to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3455/10]
- Freedom of Information. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could the Taoiseach confirm that the Freedom of Information Act allows for a citizen to seek information on salaries, expenses claimed, travel abroad, a whole raft of issues relating to remuneration and expenses of all employees in his Department? Could he also advise that no such provision applies to those who have been entrusted to oversee and manage the National Asset Management Agency?...
- Freedom of Information. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a little ironic that under the FOI Act we have evidence, contrary to the Taoiseach's response, that the representatives of the banking interests lobbied that the Act should not apply to NAMA.
- Freedom of Information. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not a case of only lobbying the Taoiseach.
- Freedom of Information. (16 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Taoiseach not aware, for example, that the Irish Banking Federation, in an explicit statement to the Department of Finance described as a "confidential submission", argued strenuously that the FOI Act should not apply to NAMA? There was no reference whatsoever to freedom of information in the legislation presented regarding NAMA. We had to depend on a query under the FOI Act to even...
- Written Answers — Primary Care Strategy: Primary Care Strategy (11 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of primary care teams at advanced functioning stage at the end of January 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6745/10]
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (11 Feb 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that installation of the new CT scanner at Monaghan General Hospital will commence in the week beginning 15 February 2010; if she will ensure that the required trained personnel will be in place to operate the facility without delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6746/10]