Results 17,141-17,160 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Census of Population. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister of State, Deputy Lenihan, has responsibility for integration.

Census of Population. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is he integrating at a rate beyond the awareness of the Minister of State, Deputy Kitt, and his colleagues? We are talking about anything between 100,000 and 140,000 people of Polish origin alone. I wonder if Deputy Lenihan had offered his opinion, how many more hundreds of thousands of people of other nationalities he had secreted in other parts of the jurisdiction. In response to Deputy...

Census of Population. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can the Minister of State confirm that? We speak of the undocumented in respect of Irish emigrants to the United States most particularly. Is there any method employed to gauge the numbers of undocumented in this country, particularly when one couples the CSO report on the census in 2006 with the information exposed this morning as very questionable? I refer to the number of visitors coming...

Census of Population. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He was talking through his hat.

Legislative Programme. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the legislation committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27529/07]

Legislative Programme. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, which referred to meeting on an ongoing basis and ensuring a steady flow of legislation. Does the Minister of State not agree we have had anything but a steady flow of legislation before this House since the general election last May? In fact the contrary is the case. Can the Minister of State tell us, as he has suggested, that the committee...

Legislative Programme. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister of State accept that making the claim that the Government came back after the 29th Dáil with a clean sheet is absolute nonsense? Does he not accept that there is a continuing delay in respect of health legislation? I do not need to list them but the nurses and midwives Bill and the eligibility for health and personal social services Bill are from the last Dáil and have...

Tourism Industry. (27 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the manner in which the numbers of overseas visitors to Ireland are estimated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29233/07]

Written Answers — Commission on Taxation: Commission on Taxation (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason he failed to ensure a balanced membership of the Commission on Taxation to ensure that the interest of low and middle income earners was adequately represented within the membership of the Commission. [7692/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the constraints that directives from the European Union put on the ability of this State to make changes to the VAT regime, including the State's ability to make changes to the number of VAT bands and the rates which they are set at. [7693/08]

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will place myasthenia gravis on the list of qualifying illnesses under the long term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7608/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that a specialist neurologist and specialist nurse on myasthenia gravis is appointed, attached to one of the main teaching hospitals, and providing essential diagnostic and treatment services as well as liaison with primary care services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7607/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding and other resources will be provided to a group (details supplied) to assist people with this condition and to enhance education and awareness among medical professionals and the general public [7609/08]

Written Answers — General Register Office: General Register Office (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 261: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of marriages for which the General Registers Office has provided clearance over the past three years; and the number of these that involved a non-EU citizen. [8067/08]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 413: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the naturalisation application will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Cavan. [7580/08]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the damaging effect on patient care of cutbacks imposed by the HSE, including the announcement by the HSE North East that it will only accept emergency child psychiatric referrals from GPs in Cavan and Monaghan for at least the next four months, and the need for the Minister for...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Committee Stage of the Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007 is due to be taken in the Select Committee on Health and Children this week. There has been a dearth of health legislation since the general election in May 2007. Does the legislation committee of Government have the power to fast-track legislation where there is a clear and obvious need? Does it have the power to...

Dáil Reform. (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the process for implementation of the Houses of the Oireachtas reform elements of An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7915/08]

Dáil Reform. (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, to the hot seat for today and probably this week. In regard to the informal engagements to which he referred, will he outline the exact make-up of those engagements and exactly who is attending? Will he also explain why the Oireachtas reform section of the programme for Government amounts to a scant, short and even vague reference? It...

Dáil Reform. (26 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Why has the Sinn Féin Whip not been included in the engagement the Minister has just explained is confined to Fianna Fáil, representing the Government, with the Fine Gael and Labour parties? Why is the only other Opposition party in the House excluded from these preliminary discussions? We have a view to offer on essential reform and experience here, over a decade in my case. Will the...