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Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When will the Government afford the House an opportunity to hear the Minister for Education and Science discuss his decision to cut funding to special needs children? Will that be afforded today or next week? Preferably, the Minister will announce a decision to withdraw his proposal——

Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——which is disgraceful and directly affects the special needs education of more than 900 children.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking whether it will be included. Surely an issue of such importance merits address in this House.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can the Tánaiste indicate that the Minister will be requested——

Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——to come before the House on this matter?

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the health and safety grounds on which the decision was made to close a 19 bed unit at St Patrick's Hospital in Waterford; if a report exists detailing these grounds; if so, if she will publish the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5249/09]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to build a new 50 bed unit at St Patrick's geriatric care hospital in Waterford; the stage such plans are at; if funding is available; the timeframe the Health Service Executive is working to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5250/09]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 243: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1105 of 27 January 2009, his views on whether the European Central Bank interest rate cut of 0.5% announced on 15 January 2009 will be passed on in full to local authority mortgage holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5251/09]

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Minister confirming that €4 billion was deposited on 30 September, the day the bank's financial year ended, and hours after the Government's guarantee to the banks was announced? Does the Minister recognise that this will be seen right across the board as an exercise in cooking the books and that another financial institution, Irish Life & Permanent, was knowingly involved as it...

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will conclude by asking the steps he now proposes to take to explore the complicit roles of the other main financial institutions, namely, Irish Nationwide in respect of Mr. FitzPatrick, Irish Life & Permanent in regard to this transfer of funds in September and any additional relationship that may exist between Anglo Irish Bank and other financial institutions.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He has suggested that he is constrained because of possible later actions but the House and the people deserve a factual account of the steps he is taking or intends to take in respect of those executives and other individuals who were involved in what can at best be described as highly irregular activities——

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——and, in the opinion of all fair minded people, as criminally irresponsible, to put it mildly.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Prior to the 20th.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Have I the right to ask a supplementary question?

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Ceann Comhairle accord an opportunity for Deputies to ask supplementary questions later?

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is correct.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When the Second Stage debate on the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill was held here seven years ago, I pointed out that not only did the Central Bank allow the DIRT fraud to flourish but it lobbied Government not to intervene claiming that to do so would encourage a flight of money from the economy.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given that the Central Bank was prepared to turn a blind eye to that scandal I queried at the time what other failings there were in its operations. Seven years later we are concerned here with the replacement brought in by that legislation in 2002, a new regulatory regime that was lauded at the time by the Government as one that would deal with all of these problems.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is clear that the Office of the Financial Regulator has failed to live up to Government expectations, I expect, and certainly those of all Opposition voices here and the electorate. What will the Minister do to ensure public confidence in a regulatory regime in respect of the banks and financial institutions?

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question : To ask the Minister for Finance the extent of the knowledge of himself or his Department of the irregular transactions between Anglo Irish Bank and other financial institutions, including the Irish Nationwide Building Society and Irish Life & Permanent, when he proposed to the Houses of the Oireachtas on 20 January 2009 the nationalisation of the Anglo Irish Bank; the full facts...