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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if she will provide the funding that the person urgently needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10880/07]

Education Projects. (22 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount it would cost to set up a national primary school pupil database. [10807/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to receive an immediate appointment for their blood pressure. [10830/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will cover the cost for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to have their medical records transferred. [10831/07]

Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I oppose the proposal to guillotine debate on this Bill. At this time yesterday, we had evidence of the Government's approach to the Health Bill. In that case, it was not possible to address all of the critical amendments that had been tabled by Members, including the relevant Minister. Will this be the pattern for the remaining period of this Dáil? If so, it is a bad way of doing...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On behalf of the Sinn Féin Deputies I also record our opposition to the Bill, both its substance and the methodology of its passage, that is, the application of the guillotine.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Taoiseach aware that many thousands of medical card holders are being deprived of dental treatment to which they are entitled because dentists have felt compelled to withdraw from the dental service treatment scheme? Is he further aware that this situation is set to worsen as the Irish Dental Association is in the course of a ballot of its members to withdraw from the scheme in...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Whatever the legal position, does the Taoiseach realise that if this problem is not resolved the scheme will collapse and many people will be left without the treatment to which they are entitled? Will he urge the Minister for Health and Children to immediately intervene and use her offices to facilitate the recommencement of direct engagement with the Irish Dental Association to stave off...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. However, he has not indicated whether he will use his position as Taoiseach to impress on the Minister the importance of her immediately intervening to break the logjam. Now is the time to do it, in advance of any decision by the members of the Irish Dental Association. As the Taoiseach should know dentists have been pulling——

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——out of this scheme in ever increasing numbers from as far back as 2005. Dental treatment is supposed to be a key element of primary care provision, something to which the Taoiseach and his Government are allegedly committed — another one of the promises referred to already this morning. In reality we do not have the network of primary care centres including dental providers, both...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——particularly for those who are dependent on medical cards for access to the whole raft of health care services including dental services? These are the people who will now suffer most from a further deterioration of the situation between the Irish Dental Association, the HSE and the Department of Health and Children. Ultimately the buck stops with the Taoiseach. What is he now...

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the next meeting of the European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9642/07]

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I expect the Taoiseach recalls that the Lisbon strategy was supposed to make what it stated was a "decisive impact" on the eradication of poverty by 2010. Does he recall how I referred yesterday to the fact that SIPTU drew attention to the exploitation of building workers in certain areas, particularly in the midlands and the west? Does he not agree that the Lisbon strategy is not working...

European Council Meetings. (21 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is the Taoiseach prepared to do at home and in respect of the European Council as a vehicle for wider redress of the failures of the Lisbon strategy to really make a difference where low wages and poverty are at stake?

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the high dependence of the Government on tax receipts from property and consumption means that any contraction or downturn in these sectors is liable to leave the Government in a vulnerable position. [10179/07]

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance when, in view of the fact that low income families which have no savings can fall into debt particularly easily, he will introduce a savings scheme for low income households, on a pilot basis for two years, in the form suggested by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the money advice and budgeting service and the Combat Poverty Agency. [10180/07]

Written Answers — Public Service Charges: Public Service Charges (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will initiate a review of user fees and service charges for essential public services to examine their impact on low income families with a view to bringing forward proposals to reduce the proportion of funding of public services which comes from charges to members of the public who utilise such services. [10455/07]

Written Answers — Repatriation of Remains: Repatriation of Remains (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 499: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 390 of 13 February 2007. [10484/07]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 505: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the map referred to in clauses 3 and 4 of the Moville Fisheries District Order 1926 is available; if he will provide a copy of this map; if the boundaries shown therein are still regarded as the State's sea boundaries; and, if not, the current boundaries of the State within the Malin Head and Lough Foyle...

Written Answers — Aquaculture Licences: Aquaculture Licences (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 506: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the implications of the Foyle and Carlingford Fisheries Bill for owners of vessels holding specific segment, aquaculture only licences. [9451/07]