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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the long-term status of Lifford Community Hospital, County Donegal. [20197/08]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will expedite the visa application for a person (details supplied). [20211/08]

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the opportunity were open to me I would of course wish to move a Sinn Féin amendment to the motion. As amended on our proposal, the substantive motion tabled by both the Fine Gael and Labour parties would read as follows: That Dáil Éireann, noting: the announcement of a national cancer strategy; the proposal to develop eight centres of excellence at various locations around the...

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: She does not want to listen, which is her problem.

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: She does not want to listen to the people——

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——or public representatives. The Minister and her colleagues in the Department and at Cabinet created what I have described previously as a quango from hell. In this case it is the monstrous quango of the HSE. She has removed democratic accountability in toto. The Minister for Health and Children would rather listen to corporate executives in the private health business and her HSE has...

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It has been given a major role in the provision of dialysis in our health services in the mid-west and south east. The Minister, Deputy Harney, and the HSE trust the likes of these private profiteers in the health care industry more than they trust frontline health care workers——

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——in the Irish health services and the communities they serve. People should be very clear on the position being taken by Government and Government-supporting Deputies in the vote this evening. There is nowhere for them to hide. If they vote for the Government amendment they are voting for the total centralisation of cancer services and the ending of services at Sligo, Mayo and the...

Special Educational Needs. (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I, too, want to avail of the opportunity to wish the Minister well in his new portfolio and congratulate him on his frontline responsibilities. Does his response represent the fact that the new Minister for Education and Science is approaching the whole issue of autism spectrum disorder with a new copy book? I must take hope from what he says, that the discussions, as he terms them, will...

Capitation Grants. (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept the Minister's remarks on the encouragement of young people and schools to engage in water conservation, but we cannot single out schools, penalise them and force them to fund-raise for water, thus distracting them from the provision of quality teaching, which is their primary responsibility. Why not apply the same principle to Garda stations, military barracks, Departments and the...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio. (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I fully appreciate that the Minister is new to his portfolio and the likelihood is that he will not be able to answer my question.

Pupil-Teacher Ratio. (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to put him on notice that this is information he should be able to offer to Members when they seek it. How many additional teachers would be required to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio in primary education by one? What additional resources would be needed to fund that intent? Is the Minister in a position to answer the question? To give the Minister some light relief, his predecessor...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio. (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a most regrettable decision.

Standards in Public Office. (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if the code of conduct for office holders is under review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7914/08]

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (20 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 280: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for the difficulty in issuing a passport for a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan in view of the fact that they were previously issued a passport and the current application is simply to replace the first passport which has been lost. [19736/08]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (20 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 541: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if a substantive reply will issue to correspondence sent by this Deputy on 28 February 2008 requesting permission for the application to be processed through the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform instead; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (20 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 547: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person in the advanced processing stages of a citizenship application may leave the State for a period of time to attend to a very seriously ill family member in their native country without jeopardising their application; the procedure such a person should follow to ensure their absence is registered as temporary...

Hospital Services. (20 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the course of the career in politics of the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Barry Andrews, he should learn the lesson of the example provided tonight by his senior Minister. Her walking out at the outset of this debate is deplorable——

Hospital Services. (20 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——and gives a very bad signal to the people of the north east, on whom she has already turned her back repeatedly in respect of the health issues of concern to them. I have to hand one of the letters sent out by the Health Service Executive to thousands of people in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath. It was received by one of my constituents in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan....

Order of Business (20 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Legislation is promised to provide a legislative framework for the governance of information in the health sector. The health information Bill is promised for next year. In light of all concerns expressed in this Chamber this afternoon, when will the heads of the Bill be brought forward and will the Taoiseach make an intervention in the Department of Health and Children to ensure the...