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Official Engagements. (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, not at all.

Order of Business (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support the appeals of the earlier contributors in regard to the proposed establishment of the national asset management agency. The Opposition voices can, and should, make an important input into the consideration of how this agency should be established and the work with which it will be entrusted. It is the single biggest roll of a dice with public funding given all the risk factors...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly whereby a cohabiting couple are treated as a single household for social welfare eligibility purposes, yet for Revenue Commissioner purposes they are treated as two individuals and may not benefit from each other's tax credits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16139/09]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Closure: Nursing Home Closure (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received petitions and representations from the people of Carlow opposing the closure of a nursing home (details supplied); the action she has taken in response to these representations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16272/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the assistance that can be given towards the cost and availability of transport for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who has to travel monthly by bus to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, for treatment on a non-malignant brain tumour and who has been informed that the monthly visits will have to continue indefinitely. [16344/09]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to provide accommodation for the 319 people with an intellectual disability currently living in psychiatric hospitals, despite stated policy that this is not appropriate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16558/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 344: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly whereby a cohabiting couple are treated as a single household for social welfare eligibility purposes, yet for Revenue Commissioner purposes they are treated as two individuals and may not benefit from each other's tax credits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. ...

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 374: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason for the delay in the allocation to local authorities of funding for the housing adaptation grant and the mobility aid grant; if his attention has been drawn to the need for the allocation to be made without further delay in view of the fact that local authorities are not permitted to carry out...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 411: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the hardship caused to farmers following his decision to defer the full payment of grants allocated under the farm waste management scheme and in particular the case of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; if he will review this case with a view to making a speedier payment in...

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This legislation has been already guillotined on Second Stage, which severely restricted the opportunity for Members to participate properly in that debate.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are faced with a guillotine applying at midnight tonight on Committee, Report and Final Stages. The content of this legislation is not reasonable by any yardstick. The consequences of the passage of this legislation will not be reasonable in terms of the reality it will spell out for ordinary people who are currently struggling to make ends meet. The passage of this legislation will...

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Department of Health and Children officials for their briefing earlier today on the swine flu threat. A briefing such as this is always useful. However, there are grave and justifiable concerns, particularly given that primary care services will be the front line of address and we currently have a very low GP to population ratio and a poor and uneven roll-out of primary care...

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----requesting the Minister to come to the House to deal with this?

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Government to provide time to address this issue here-----

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----in open forum in the Dáil so that we can properly inform not only ourselves but the wider public of the dangers of-----

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking about the ordering of business.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My understanding is that it has been addressed in myriad ways.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was not aware that I was named under Standing Orders so that I cannot raise it but other people can.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Well, there it is.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will conclude on that point and go on to my second point.