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Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The issue is the slashing of social welfare benefits across the board-----

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and then for the Minister to come to this House and expect Deputies to give approval to his proposition to bail out banks and developers with tens of billions of Irish taxpayers' money.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is absolutely outrageous and it is high time somebody told the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan-----

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----he should get stuffed.

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (5 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she or the Health Service Executive is monitoring the effect of the swine flu outbreak in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39840/09]

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (5 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 203: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the proposal in the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programme for the abolition of town councils in view of the fact that such a step would be anti-democratic and in violation of the constitutional recognition of local government; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — School Closures: School Closures (5 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he is monitoring the effect of the swine flu outbreak on schools; the assessment of the effect so far in terms of temporary closures; and the number of school days lost and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39841/09]

Tribunals of Inquiry. (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the cost to date to his Department of the Moriarty tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39046/09]

Tribunals of Inquiry. (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach reported to the Committee of Public Accounts in July that the Government had decided not to enforce the decision to allow for reduced fees to be paid to counsel in attendance at the Moriarty tribunal - a decision that had been announced by the former Taoiseach as far back as 2004 - allegedly because there was a question about the...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could the Taoiseach clarify what were the influences that made the Government change its mind on the reduced fees in this tribunal's case? It was a definite statement that was made before the House in 2004. It had universal welcome and acceptance and it has never been applied. The Secretary General's remarks in July to the Committee of Public Accounts indicated that it was out of fear that...

Commemorative Events. (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Bunaoídh coiste ag an Rialtas roimh an olltoghchán deireanach le ullmhú do chomóradh 1916. Ní raibh cruinniú ar bith ag an coiste sin ó shin. The Government established a committee to prepare a programme leading up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising prior to the last general election. There was a request for submissions and ideas from all interested opinion. Sinn Féin made a...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On behalf of the Sinn Féin Dáil Deputies and our sole Member of the Seanad, I join in the expressions of sympathy and to convey our condolences to the widow, sons and daughter and extended family of the late Deputy, Senator and councillor Joe Doyle who rose to the eminent position of the honorary first citizen of his native city. 12 o'clock I did not have the opportunity of serving with...

Order of Business. (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Despite the importance of the National Asset Management Agency Bill, the proposition has been put to the House that this financial resolution is to be adopted without debate. There is no such thing as parking it and coming back to talk about it after the event. We should have the opportunity to address this matter now. The Order of Business states: "No. a11 shall be decided without...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the deployment of the H1N1 vaccine; and the systems that are in place to ensure that all those at risk receive the vaccine in a timely and efficient manner. [39270/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that resources are made available without delay to Crumlin Children's Hospital, Dublin, to provide adequate additional ICU beds, thus avoiding cancellation of vital operations and long waiting lists for sick children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39239/09]

Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cavan has been denied welfare payment from her Department and from community welfare services; the further reason they received a letter from community welfare services stating that they should now contact the reception and integration agency of the Department of Justice, Equality and...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount lost by the Health Service Executive in 2009 as a result of the refusal of health insurers to pay it for treating their private patients admitted to hospitals under consultants holding the type A contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39504/09]

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thought the Chair was being ultra generous.

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Since the Minister came up with what I can only describe as her disgraceful co-location programme, every time we have raised the shortage of acute hospital beds, she has continually referred to this co-location programme proposition as the means to free up additional public beds in our public hospitals currently occupied by private patients. Does she recall that when we first engaged on this...

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How can the Minister justify this approach when €231 million-----