Results 14,081-14,100 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
- Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No. The Taoiseach wants to run a particular arrangement and says there is no other way.
- Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is absolute nonsense. My family connections and others will be affected. We are talking here about human and real concerns.
- Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: You cannot ride roughshod over whole communities-----
- Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There are reasonable alternative proposals as to how-----
- Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I agree with that.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I strongly object to the ordering of business today, which ultimately is a sham because the Government will state it is providing additional time to address the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill, which provides for the cuts to public service workers' pay. It will do nothing of the kind. The imposition of guillotines in the House for each of the Stages is...
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of the responsibility to help to bring us out of these financial difficulties is creating a serious situation for the poorest people. It amounts to a crucifixion of the poorest in Irish society today and is an absolute disgrace. Sinn Féin absolutely and wholly opposes both the ordering and passage of this disgraceful legislation.
- Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his recent contacts with the British Prime Minister in relation to the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. [44311/09]
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 4 November 2009, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [46692/09]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 4 November 2009, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [46693/09]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Offices: Social Welfare Offices (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 302: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the catchment area served by the social welfare office in Ballyconnell, County Cavan; the number of people registered as signing-on and dependent on the claimant; the total population of the entire catchment as per the 2006 census; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46996/09]
- Written Answers — Registration of Herd Numbers: Registration of Herd Numbers (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 363: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 26 May 2009, if a person (details supplied) in County Louth was the registered owner of a herd number prior to 1989; and if so, the process undertaken to transfer the herd number to another person. [46752/09]
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The proposal is that the House should accept these reports without debate, including that of the Minister for Defence regarding the involvement of the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2007 and 2008. We do not agree to the taking of this proposition without debate in the Chamber. The reason is very simple. At the most recent meeting of the European Council the Taoiseach appended...
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the Ceann Comhairle would ask the hecklers in the Front Benches of the Government parties to desist I will be able to explain why I believe these reports should not be taken without debate. The fact is this is only a figleaf for what quite clearly is now a NATO-led operation with the United States and Britain in Afghanistan. We need a full debate on these reports on the floor of the...
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It does not matter to me whether it involves seven members of our Defence Forces or 700, it is fundamentally wrong. In a reply I received only last week-----
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----to a parliamentary question-----
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Allow me to finish the point, Ceann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I established through a response to a parliamentary question last week that 243,000 US forces passed through Shannon Airport this year alone. That is a disgraceful situation-----
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and is a matter that needs to be properly debated on the floor of this House.