Results 17,061-17,080 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

World Trade Organisation: Statements (6 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The importance of agriculture to the economy is illustrated by the fact that 10% of our trade is in agricultural produce. The greater proportion of that is within the European Union. The potential danger to Irish trade presented by the approach that Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is adopting in the WTO negotiations is illustrated by the fact that at present over 60% of our exports and...

Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish the report of Dunne Inquiry into organ retention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9282/08]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the decision of the Health Service Executive north east to accept only urgent or emergency child and adolescent psychiatric referrals from general practitioners in Cavan and Monaghan for at least the next four months; and the action she will undertake to reverse this cutback in services. [9281/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, pending the outcome of the Government's consideration of a scheme to assist voluntary sporting and community groups acquire defibrillators, she will propose the reduction of VAT on the purchase of defibrillators to 13.5%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9491/08]

Mental Health Facilities. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The list a previous speaker read out of organisations and voices opposed to the proposition of siting the Central Mental Hospital on the same site as the new so-called super prison to be located at Thornton Hall is not exhaustive. Without question, one could add to that list the Mental Health Commission, the clinical director of the Central Mental Hospital, the families and carers of the...

Mental Health Facilities. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It will have a separate entrance. That is absolutely wonderful.

Hospital Staff. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has indicated that she regards the scandalous delays of up to 18 months in diagnostic procedures for cancer, including colonoscopy, as unacceptable. She has also cited the new consultants' contract as a means to address the situation. Will the Minister advise the House on how exactly that will be done, where the new consultants will be deployed and how that will impact on the...

Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister confirm she wrote to the chairman of the HSE, Mr. Liam Downey, as regards the executive's national service plan? In the course of that correspondence, did she express concern over shortfalls in services to be provided in 2008 under the plan, especially in the whole area of mental health, as Deputy O'Sullivan has indicated, as well as primary care? How is the service plan...

Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Do we have enough general practitioners?

Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We must remember that the unit to be developed at Beaumont Hospital has been promised since the 1980s, yet an archaic and antiquated facility continues to operate at Portrane. Will the Minister of State indicate whether the identified site is on the site identified for the Minister's precious so-called co-located private hospital arrangement? What is the position on the proposal to develop...

Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the co-location proposal resulted in the movement of the proposed psychiatric unit from the site originally intended?

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The public consultation programme on the nurses and midwives Bill ended on 4 February. We are advised that the heads of the Bill have been prepared but are further heads to be prepared and when will they be published? Does the Taoiseach have a target date for the publication of this long promised and necessary health-related Bill?

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the heads of the Bill be published?

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he has had with regard to the peace process, including discussions with the British Prime Minister since the adjournment of Dáil Éireann on 19 December 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1325/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the Taoiseach in wishing First Minister Ian Paisley well following his announced retirement. As has been stated, he deserves credit for having led unionism along a very difficult road in recent times. That should be acknowledged and it should be recognised that this took a certain amount of courage on his part and that of his colleagues. The process did not just involve Ian Paisley....

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No less than any other speakers, I am sure. Unquestionably, he stoked the embers of that conflict repeatedly. In his latter years he demonstrated the necessary skills and I sincerely hope we will see the spirit of co-operation that has infused the Executive and Assembly continuing after Ian Paisley. Does the Taoiseach agree there is a certain irony in the position adopted by Deputy Kenny...

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I hope the Ceann Comhairle will allow me the right of response. Deputy Kenny implied that there is a series of so-called punishment beatings taking place in that area. I would like him to share the detail with the other Members of the House and this Deputy. The implication is that this is happening with regularity. I understand no such thing is happening. Indeed, if he knew the reality...

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Taoiseach's assurance that it is his intention and that of the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to continue to press for the transfer of powers by a date in May, which is the expectation. I hope the Taoiseach will be able to confirm that the scheduled expectation of the delivery of that continues to be his personal expectation. As we are about to enter the period marking...

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thought the Taoiseach was the only one who had that problem.

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What other interpretation would Deputy Gilmore put on it?