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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that all required health and personal social services are made available to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5480/10]

Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will comment on the refusal of the Information Commissioner to allow a freedom of information request to release documents related to two meetings on the night of 29 and 30 September 2008, one involving senior Ministers and officials and another involving senior banking executives. [5100/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Having played our part in the direct engagement with the republican base not only in this State but throughout the island of Ireland in winning support for new policing arrangements in the North of Ireland and a new acceptance of changed policing structures in that part of our island, we share very much in the frustration of so many at the passage of time since the agreement was reached at...

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Very briefly——

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Aside from the intense focus of the very recent past and following a hopefully successful conclusion to this process, will the Taoiseach give an undertaking to the House to raise matters of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the wider matter of collusion and the Pat Finucane murder to which the Taoiseach did not refer in his reply? His family and those who campaigned for justice in his name...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to the fact there is no inspection of services for people with intellectual disability and that a HSE report is expected to reveal that some 4,200 people with intellectual disability are currently housed within long-outdated, inappropriate conditions——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, it is leading exactly to that. There are still some 300 people with intellectual disability inappropriately placed in psychiatric facilities across this State. What action is the Taoiseach considering against all of these very serious matters? Will he expedite the taking of the licensing of health facilities Bill, which is promised to address the issue of a mandatory system of...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When will the Taoiseach being forward the licensing of health facilities Bill?

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had since 1 January 2010 with the British Prime Minister and the First and Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland regarding the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and the St. Andrew's Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1241/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach the further action he proposes to take on foot of the Barron reports, the Oireachtas justice committee sub-committee reports, the McEntee Report and the Oireachtas resolution regarding the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of May 1974 and other fatal attacks here involving collusion between British state forces and loyalist paramilitaries; and if he will make a...

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to initiate a resumption of the social partnership process in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46882/09]

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46884/09]

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he has had with trade unions regarding reform of the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3468/10]

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How can the Taoiseach justify the decision to exempt top civil servants from the full effect of the pay cuts through 2009 and into 2010 while, at the same time, those on lower to medium-income levels are being punished severely? Is it a case that the closer one is to the Minister the less one will suffer and that, therefore, an ordinary clerical worker in the Civil Service is out of sight...

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is within the ambit of the questions I am addressing here. Social partnership is a central focus of our concerns as we speak but these protections have been in place primarily to give a guarantee to people involved in industries such as catering, hotel, construction, retail and grocery, hairdressing and printing. They help ensure that the rates of those workers are, as have been...

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is representative of the reality for people.

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I heard the Taoiseach the first time and I did not buy it then either.

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach's claim that the top paid civil servants have experienced a progressive reduction in comparison to lower earners does not hold up. We all know that, after the announcement, the scrapped bonus payments were factored into the calculation, resulting in a reduction in the order of 3% at the higher level as against 5% for low to middle income earners. The Taoiseach has been made...

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I put it again to the Taoiseach that this is a matter he must address. Is he prepared to face the facts and the reality of the situation, not the spin that he and other of his colleagues are trying to have us believe? Will the Government agree, in the context of social partnership and whatever hope and prospect there is of talks on resumed social partnership engagement, that a reversal of...

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----that entailed sweeping changes in work practices, and that would have had serious and important changes in terms of work practices, particularly applying to those across the health services. Why did the Taoiseach reject and turn his back on what was a very imaginative, brave and thoughtful set of proposals put forward by the trade union representatives? What chance is there of any...