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Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the context of the need for a job creation strategy and the stabilisation of work,——

Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——can the Taoiseach indicate if the Government and Cabinet are coming forward——

Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the Ceann Comhairle would allow me to finish, with respect.

Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Government indicate the measures it proposes to bring forward? Will they require legislation? What redress of the ongoing failures of people at senior level within bank management——

Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking about further legislation.

Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking about promised legislation.

Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I cannot name it as the Government has not told us what it is going to call it. It is promised legislation and, frankly, between the Ceann Comhairle and me, that is probably as much as the Government knows too. That is the problem in this House.

Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking, because there have been failures at the highest level of banking management in this State, when legislation will be introduced to curb the abuses at the most senior level within the banking institutions in this State?

Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When will legislation be brought forward to protect workers in the instance I have given of Irish Life & Permanent? I note on the published legislative programme, the National Pensions Reserve Fund (Amendment) Bill is listed as the legislation to give effect to the recapitalisation of the banks. Is that still the case in the context of the deal with the banks announced last week?

Official Engagements. (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Japan. [1775/09]

Official Engagements. (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To reflect a little more positively on the Irish Government delegation's visit to Japan, I welcome very much that one of its products was the removal of the ban on Irish pork accessing the Japanese market as a result of the negotiations that took place. I understand negotiations also took place on reopening the Japanese market for the importation of Irish beef. This negotiation has not...

Official Engagements. (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about my question on Irish beef?

Constitutional Amendments. (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referenda planned for 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1782/09]

Constitutional Amendments. (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If it is the Taoiseach's intention to proceed with a second referendum, is it not the case that not a single word, let alone a line, in the Lisbon treaty will change when next he presents proposals to the Irish electorate? Does he accept that the Lisbon treaty, on which the Irish people have already voted, will remain absolutely as they have already judged, the text being exactly the same?...

Constitutional Amendments. (17 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach not accept that his assertion — that the efforts to explore how to put the Lisbon treaty to the people again are democratic — flies in the face of people's understanding of democracy? A direct analogy would be if, in the event of a general election going against the Taoiseach, he were to turn to the people and ask them to hold on until he consulted with them to see why...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he is requesting that the EU take to ensure that all the crossings to Gaza are fully open to enable humanitarian aid and reconstruction materials to enter unimpeded. [5241/09]

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has inquired into or can confirm that during the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas beginning on 19 June 2008 there was a diminution of mortar and rocket firing out of Gaza into Israel and Hamas itself fired no rockets or mortars at all until Israel broke the ceasefire on 4 November 2008 by entering Gaza and killing six members of...

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank my colleague, Deputy Morgan, for sharing time with me. On the day that taxpayers are asked to put €7 billion into the Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks, parents, children and teachers across this State are devastated that special needs teachers will be withdrawn from children who desperately need them and all for a paltry so-called saving of €7 million. It speaks volumes of...

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I did not hear any other Deputy move an amendment.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yesterday we had an opportunity to engage with the Minister and we were in a position to ask specific questions through the facilitation of a Private Notice Question. Already this morning further questions arise following a raft of different pieces of information that have appeared in the national press today. These include the claim by Irish Life & Permanent that it advised the Financial...