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Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (14 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Tallaght Hospital is short of an anaesthetist; if this is leading to operations being cancelled or delayed particularly for elderly patients awaiting hip operations; and the steps being taken to resolve this crisis. [5890/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting time for a hip operation in Tallaght Hospital. [5891/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if new staff will be taken on in his Department to facilitate the provision of trained welfare advisers to lone parents being moved from welfare to work or if there are existing staff in training to provide the specialised assistance needed. [4613/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 171: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he plans to put the relevant infrastructure in place such as affordable and reliable child care places to allow lone parents enter the labour market; and if his attention has been drawn to other Department's plans in this regard. [4612/08]

Written Answers — Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol Abuse (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 316 of 30 January 2008, the reason for her refusal to establish an office to cohesively and centrally address the issue of alcohol here. [5489/08]

Written Answers — Illegal Immigrants: Illegal Immigrants (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 386: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the official figures on which he bases his view that marriages of convenience are being increasingly availed of to avoid removal from the State. [5396/08]

Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was revealed in recent days that 30 of the 150 children with cystic fibrosis being treated at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, are colonised with MRSA.

Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have indeed and that is the backdrop to it, and the emphasis for why——

Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——it is necessary to bring forward with all haste the health information Bill to ensure that patients and their relatives receive the due care to which they are entitled and are fully informed of their condition, particularly in respect of MRSA. Currently, that is not the position in many cases. What is the Taoiseach's intent in respect of the Bill and what can the Government offer in...

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if there will be a review of the remit of the cross-departmental team on housing, infrastructure and public private partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35283/07]

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach revisit the terms of reference of the cross-departmental team in order to place a greater emphasis on its responsibility to address the issue of housing? We have addressed this team and its remit on many occasions and there is, understandably, a significant concentration on infrastructure and public private partnerships, but the housing element, which is a component in the...

Departmental Bodies. (13 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The point of the various questions I posed to the Taoiseach was whether the cross-departmental team is giving sufficient attention and time to housing provision. I refer particularly to social housing, not the statistics on private house provision. I again ask the question. Does the Taoiseach believe there is a requirement to revisit the remit of the committee to lay greater emphasis on...

Written Answers — EU Regulations: EU Regulations (12 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the progress the Government has made in implementing the regulations on the European Groupings of Territorial Co-operation. [5225/08]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (12 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans in place to ensure that the additional €1.1 million she announced in December 2007 towards progressing the care costs in sheltered housing will be delivered on in 2008; the way she will ensure that proper and transparent criteria, including prioritisation for voluntary housing associations seeking such funding, are applied...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (12 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 543: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the breakdown of the processing time in relation to the approximate 30 month processing time for naturalisation applications regarding the average length of time between the time an application is received and a determination is made of the applicant's eligibility under the 60 month residency requirement, the average...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (12 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 585: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for subsidiary protection that have been received; the number that have been approved; the number that have been declined; and the number that are pending. [5216/08]

Special Educational Needs: Motion (12 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Deputy Ruairí Quinn for sharing time. On behalf of the Sinn Féin Deputies, I fully support this motion on the dire situation in our country for children with autism and their parents. I totally reject the amendment in the name of the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Mary Hanafin. I regret to state that the Minister's approach, be it personally or that of her Department,...

Special Educational Needs: Motion (12 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is very important to state that this is not a debate between two sets of educationalists about what methods are most appropriate to educate children with autism. There has been an attempt to present this as a pro and anti-ABA argument, but it is not.

Special Educational Needs: Motion (12 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is about ensuring that every child with autism, as of right, has access to the forms of education most appropriate to his or her individual needs. I have had help in my approach to this matter because my wife is a special needs teacher who teaches children with autism. When I make these points, it is from my exposure and personal awareness on a daily basis in a home where this is a...

Regulatory Reform. (12 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the OECD regulatory reform report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35286/07]