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Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sure he was asleep up to this point.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Over the past several weeks, we have had an example of anti-government. These past few weeks have been a dictatorship from Merrion Street. There were some 17 divisions in the Chamber yesterday. Measures have been rammed through the Camber continually-----

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, because today we are being asked to guillotine four more Bills. This is a ramrod approach.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government has no respect for this Chamber, its Opposition voices or the normal debate that should be part and parcel of the democratic institution of the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Government is pressing ahead with guillotining four more Bills, following on everything it has rammed down the people's throats these past few weeks. It is an outrageous approach. The House will rise...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason landlords resident outside the State cannot pay tax on their rental income directly but must rely on their tenant to make the payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47255/09]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised concerns at diplomatic and European levels regarding proposals in Uganda to impose life imprisonment or the death penalty for homosexual activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47463/09]

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On behalf of the Sinn Féin Deputies, I also object to the ordering of this legislation to be taken without debate. In the context of all we have had to face last week and this week in this House, one would need to think very carefully about a Bill entitled "Appropriation". That is exactly what the Government is doing from the poorest and least well off in our society today. This...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Concessions will not make this Bill any more palatable to the hundreds of thousands of public service workers throughout the State, many of whom protested outside the gates of this House last night in greater numbers than admitted by the media. The important thing is that the message was delivered loud and clear. This section of the Irish workforce, including-----

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----our co-workers in this institution, the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Bill before us, which the Government is proposing to guillotine today, is proposing to dig deeper into the pockets of those it already robbed earlier this year, who cannot afford to take this further hit. Shame on the Government.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join with Deputy Kenny in that appeal because this is of enormous importance to those concerned. The focus of the Private Members' business is deserving of the support of all Members of the House. Surely in the last days before the Christmas recess some heart can come into the Government backbenches-----

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----- and we can find sufficient time, even at this late stage to arrest the terrible vista being committed by this Administration on these unfortunate people. Question, "That the proposal for dealing with Private Members' business be agreed to," put and declared carried.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On promised legislation and the Government's intentions on the new term after the Christmas, can the Taoiseach indicate to the House when he intends to move the writ for the Donegal South-West by-election? It cannot have escaped his notice, as it has not that of the wider populace, that a vacancy in the Seanad could be filled almost instantly. It is ridiculous that a Seanad vacancy can be...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is a valid question on the moving of a writ for a by-election in a constituency where a seat is currently vacant.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the course of his recent engagements with the British Prime Minister, was the Taoiseach made aware of the content or the text of a letter from the First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, to Mr. Gordon Brown regarding his demand that the issues outstanding in respect of Orange Order parades and other issues should be a precondition for the resolution of the already agreed and funded transfer of...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to two matters related to the response of the Taoiseach. Does the Taoiseach agree that the imperative of the transfer of policing and justice powers from London to Belfast, which as I have already stated has been agreed and to which funding has already been committed, should not face the further obstacle of new preconditions? The proposition by the First Minister that the resolution...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a very brief comment before the Taoiseach responds. It is important to note that today EirGrid placed full-page advertisements in the national press indicating it has made the application for the interconnector from County Cavan to the Border, to link up with Northern Ireland Electricity's corresponding development in counties Armagh and Tyrone. I appeal to the Taoiseach that, if...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Nobody has any objection to the development in principle.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Clearly, the Taoiseach has not informed himself.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Over a 40 year lifespan, it is considered-----

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----by the highest opinion in Europe that it is much more economically viable to take the underground approach-----