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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister referred to PNA personnel. The implication of what I heard him say is that people who would be recruited to perform these roles and responsibilities would have, at least, the standard of knowledge and training required of professionals within the psychiatric services. That would be fine, but nothing in the Bill makes it a statutory requirement. Guidelines are not enough....

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has sprung these amendments on the Dáil. They only appeared yesterday on the publication of Report Stage. They amount to a separate Bill and should have had a separate explanatory memorandum. We should have been given the opportunity to properly discuss and debate the measures involved that clearly affect not only the Mental Health Act 2001, but all the way through to 2009....

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am only saying he is not infallible, like the Ceann Comhairle and myself.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On a point of clarification -----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is not how the Chair applied the rule with regard to Deputy Reilly. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Forgive me, a Cheann Comhairle. I was dealing with an application for membership.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach will be glad to hear we rejected it.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach will not get the application either. We also object to the proposition that a guillotine apply to the passage of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009. As has been already indicated by Deputy O'Sullivan, the legislation contains a new element which warrants independent address. The idea of a guillotine applying to this legislation is unacceptable, as is the series of...

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his participation in the June 2009 European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24768/09]

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he plans to make for the remainder of 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24928/09]

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Much commentary has been made on arguments presented by people from the "No" side in the course of the Lisbon treaty debate last year, some of which I, and a number of the Taoiseach's colleagues, roundly rejected at public meetings because I did not agree with them. However, equally, wrong and false assertions were made by the "Yes" side. I will clarify one assertion. Voting "No" to the...

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I did not realise there was a time-----

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Of course, I would like a reply. I was not conscious of a time limit applying to Taoiseach's questions. It had not been indicated to me previously in the House.

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking questions. Perhaps they are not the questions the Ceann Comhairle would like but they are questions nonetheless that are as equally valid as any others presented in the House.

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Surely it was not only the Government's right but duty to have followed through on the people's decision on the Lisbon treaty by setting it aside and entering the process of negotiation to come forward with a new and fresh document, which was what the Irish electors instructed the Taoiseach to do. How does he answer the fact that this is not what he has done and, as Deputy Kenny said, that...

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That was not unique to a "No" argument.

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I have a further opportunity to contribute?

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They had not all ratified it. Many of them only ratified after we made our decision.

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate that. I welcome the fact we have had this first exchange post the European summit without trading insults.

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would wish that this is the way the debate on this matter would proceed over the period ahead. I want to refer to three points the Taoiseach made in the course of his contribution and to ask him to consider them. He made the point with regard to voting "Yes" to a Lisbon treaty "we have all signed up to" as it was put. Does he accept we have not done so? The Irish people have not signed...