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Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 287: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for the delay in processing a passport application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7. [18577/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if new or revised rules, guidelines or instructions have been issued by her Department regarding rent supplement; if her Department has advised local authorities of such revisions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18444/09]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 336: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if new or revised rules, guidelines or instructions have been issued by his Department regarding the role of local authorities in assessing housing needs in connection with applications for rent supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18445/09]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 355: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the procedure, in regard to local authority mortgage holders wishing to re-mortgage their affordable home, by which the local authority arrives at its valuation of the property; the reason that local authorities will not accept independent valuations; the appeals procedure available to a homeowner who has a...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 446: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the information sought in Parliamentary Question Nos. 447 to 521 of 31 March 2009. [18882/09]

Order of Business (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was revealed yesterday that the number of skin cancer cases has risen by 36% from 1997 to 2007 and, even more disturbingly, that there has been a 75% increase in malignant melanoma in females under 50 years of age. What plans have the Government to introduce legislation to prohibit the use of sunbeds by under 18 year olds? It was signalled this would be addressed as part of the public...

Ministerial Responsibilities. (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the changes to the roles of Ministers of State appointed by him. [16425/09]

Ministerial Responsibilities. (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach clarify which Minister or Minister of State is responsible for drugs policy and the implementation of the national drugs strategy? In his reshuffle of Ministers of State at the end of April, did the Taoiseach downgrade the focused ministerial drugs post from Minister of State with responsibility for the national drugs strategy to Minister of State with special...

Departmental Expenditure. (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What process is used within the Department to determine savings or cuts when such decisions are being considered? We have seen a series of cuts across Departments and the public service, many of them unacceptable, certainly to Opposition voices and to many Government backbenchers. Some of these decisions have had a negative effect on the public's opinion of politics as a whole, such as the...

Departmental Expenditure. (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to ask a brief supplementary. The picture the Taoiseach has painted is not clear. The reason I ask this question is that I have never been in government and I am anxious and curious to know how these decisions are arrived at. I base my line of questioning on what was abhorrent to Opposition voices in the House, that members of the Government and members of the Cabinet were...

Departmental Expenditure. (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Targeting vulnerable children is not the answer.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (7 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 34: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there will be almost 4,000 affordable homes vacant by the end of 2009, that these affordable homes are often the same cost as or less than a similar unit in the private market and that people are finding it difficult to obtain a mortgage on a private home even...

Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (7 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 39: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to introduce a new scheme to aid people on low to middle incomes work towards becoming zero carbon households as part of any new zero carbon building regulations he introduces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18073/09]

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (7 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 116: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of all plans relating to the upgrading and expansion of the Monaghan Town sewerage collection system and the projected capacity of the town's treatment works; the delays in intended works to date; the further works anticipated or planned for 2009 and 2010 across the network; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (7 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is the case that he will not provide the funding promised and required to expand the All Ireland Centre for Autism, Middletown, County Armagh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18414/09]

Special Educational Needs: Motion. (6 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It falls to me to make the last contribution in this debate this evening and to appeal to Government to step back from the brink. The cutting of education for children with special needs is one of the most deplorable acts perpetrated by this totally discredited Government. When it comes to cuts, it now seems to be a rule of thumb for this Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government that the...

Special Educational Needs: Motion. (6 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----shame on the Department of Education and Science and shame on this Government. If the Minister took the time to look at the correspondence, lobbies and submissions that are sent to his office, he would see the real effects of these cruel measures on needy children. For example, St. Catherine's senior girls school in Cabra recently sent the Minister a detailed submission illustrating...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (6 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the development of a new national positive ageing strategy, which was committed to in the programme for Government; the voluntary groups she has met with on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17567/09]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (6 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has worked with other Government Departments to develop operational plans clearly setting out objectives relating to older people; if so, the Departments with which she has worked; the progress made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17568/09]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (6 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the roll out of BreastCheck in County Donegal will not happen in 2009; when this life saving service will be made available to the women of Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17643/09]