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Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——attendance at the Joint Committee on Health and Children until after the 1 March deadline, despite the fact that it unanimously requested that she appear before last week's——

Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——engagement with the HSE and the IPU. Surely this is an issue that merits such an intervention. I am asking the Taoiseach and Chief Whip to ensure that the Minister for Health and Children comes before the Dáil and the committee to be accountable in relation to this issue.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach not respond?

Freedom of Information. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department during November 2007 and the comparable figure for November 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35285/07]

Freedom of Information. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is the procedure in the Department of the Taoiseach for reviewing the operation of the Freedom of Information Act? Is there a cross-departmental process for monitoring and reviewing freedom of information requests either in place or planned? It is almost a year since we received the report of the Information Commissioner wherein she outlined a list of suggestions aimed at improving the...

Freedom of Information. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate the note of caution sounded by the Ceann Comhairle in respect of this matter. Have the Taoiseach and his officials considered the recommendations of the Information Commissioner in the context of their effect on FOI vis-À-vis his Department? Has an assessment been carried out in respect of the impact of the introduction or implementation of her recommendations regarding the...

Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the cross-departmental teams and interdepartmental committees on which his Department is represented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35292/07]

Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach has just shared much information. When the Taoiseach answered this question previously, he was more detailed in his reply as he listed a range of committees. Does the subgroup of senior officials on disability, which was to progress work on the Disability Bill, still exists? What progress has been made in that group's deliberations? To keep this brief, as the Taoiseach is...

Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach gave us more information.

Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach can tell us about them. I have only mentioned two.

Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Where would we be without the Taoiseach?

Departmental Bodies. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept what the Taoiseach has stated but there is a need for a greater information flow in this House on the work of cross-departmental and interdepartmental teams and task forces. I am specifically trying to secure some up-to-date information about just two of them. With reference to the helpful mode the Taoiseach is suggesting he is in this morning, perhaps he will undertake to...

Official Engagements. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his visit to South Africa. [1326/08]

Official Engagements. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 21: To ask the Taoiseach the number and planned location of meetings scheduled by the National Forum on Europe during 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4973/08]

Official Engagements. (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to the grouping together of questions Nos. 7 to 21. There is no relationship between the work of the National Forum on Europe and its scheduled meetings on the Lisbon treaty, the EU reform treaty or whatever name one wishes to call it, and the Taoiseach's meeting with President Mbeki in South Africa. I do not understand this grouping, which is an absolute mishmash of questions and...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (20 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Education and Science to make clear her intentions with regard to the provision of essential applied behaviour analysis education for children with autism in light of the expectation now created by her party colleagues in the Oireachtas that the...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 306: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been in contact with the Health Minister in the Six Counties in relation to joint approaches to hospital-based infections such as MRSA and clostridium difficile; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6748/08]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the alarm caused at the large number of deaths attributed to clostridium difficile in hospitals in all of the Health Trust areas in the Six Counties; the known incidence of the disease in this jurisdiction; if there are figures for the level of infection by hospital and by Health Service Executive...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 623: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for long term residency that have been granted and the number that have been refused, for each month since January 2007. [5954/08]

Agency Workers: Motion (19 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Hear, hear.