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Written Answers — Fishing Vessel Licences: Fishing Vessel Licences (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 507: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the basis for his Department's claim that no licensed aquaculture operations exist in Lough Foyle, in view of the fact that a division of his Department was instrumental in issuing sea-fishing boat licences to vessels whose owners specified in the application process that their operations were taking place...

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 516: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the consultations that have taken place (details supplied) in relation to the application by the company for a foreshore lease for the development of a marina; the outcome of such meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9659/07]

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 935: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will approve the application by Donegal County Council for the replacement of the asbestos water main supplying Teelin as part of the south west Donegal DBO rural water project, which the council submitted to his Department in July 2006 and have to date received no response. [9658/07]

Health Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It should not have been necessary to table this amendment. Every Government-sponsored Bill providing for the appointment of members to a board, authority, council etc. should contain the requirement for the appointment, through affirmative action, of at least 40% of either gender serving on the board. That should be expected of Government. That we must repeatedly and continuously make the...

Health Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 18: In page 23, to delete lines 43 to 47. On a point of clarification, does Deputy McManus's indication of withdrawal mean that it does not stand in my name as——

Health Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. I was just curious because it is what happened on the last one. This is an odd situation in terms of lines 43 to 47 because what that subsection provides for in real effect is a gagging order against the chief executive. This is an exercise to not only censor but close down the independent utterances of the chief executive. I wonder about the genesis of this...

Health Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 13, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: "(c) to report on any failure by the Executive to take appropriate enforcement action in the event of non-compliance with the standards referred to in paragraph (a);". Tá brón orm nach raibh mé ábalta a bheith i láthair ag tús an díospóireacht ar an Chéim seo. I am sorry I was not in the Chamber...

Health Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am disappointed the Minister of State's response is negative. I am not certain whether the response to the previous ten amendments followed the same pattern. However, if this is the pattern of the Government approach, it is on a collision course with Opposition voices. The Government seems unprepared and unwilling to accept reasonable amendments which seek to improve and strengthen the...

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will share time with Deputies Gormley and Finian McGrath. The memo from the Department of Health and Children's legislation unit to the Government Chief Whip's office, which was copied to Opposition spokespersons, states that the Government made a decision on 7 March 2006 to address the issue of whistleblowing on a sectoral basis. It further stated that Ministers were instructed to...

Order of Business (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the last days before Christmas, in the last days before summer, in the last days of a Government are when we see the increased use of the guillotine for legislation. It is being used once more with the Health Bill 2006. It is not the way to go about business. I oppose the guillotining of the Bill.

Order of Business (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With SIPTU once again highlighting disgraceful and worsening conditions——

Order of Business (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——for workers in the building industry, will the Government introduce the employment law compliance Bill? The abuse of workers' rights is disgraceful.

Tax Collection. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister have any idea of the number of investigations carried out by the Revenue Commissioners in 2006 into the veracity of claims by certain individuals to be non-resident for tax purposes? Is he satisfied the Revenue Commissioners have sufficient resources to monitor and assess new and developing means of tax evasion that some fly players in the financial sector might...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I, too, noted the Taoiseach's responses of 28 February on this issue. He indicated, and I ask him to revisit it this afternoon, that he had no knowledge of proposed contracts in regard to the co-location on public hospital sites of private for profit hospitals. I also noted on that occasion that he indicated he would give no guarantee to this House that he would not sign contracts for same...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: All of that information is contained in the response to Question No. 867 from the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, the former Tánaiste. It does not hold much weight that the Taoiseach could not have known of such an important intent on the part of a key Minister and Ministry within his Cabinet and Government. How can the Taoiseach reconcile such a proposal? Why, even at...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That, in effect, is what he will be doing.

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What evidence does the Taoiseach have to support the proposition he now defends — the notion and idea mooted by the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and the Progressive Democrats? With his declared position the Taoiseach has now become a champion for it. Regardless of the position on leasing or selling, does the Taoiseach not recognise that this is a DBO — design, build...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Taoiseach aware that nowhere within the health strategy or the programme for Government was there any reference to it and yet today he is again prepared to indicate a willingness to sign contracts that will bind future Governments and the State into arrangements with people whose intent is to create a whole new stratum of private, profit-driven health care in this jurisdiction? For...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——in the interests of those dependent on the public health services shows how far removed from the reality of people's lives he has become. The Government has completely lost its way regarding health care.

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is nothing he can do to assuage the fears of eminent consultants and those at the coalface of the delivery of health care who continually state in the case of this proposal that the Government has no clothes——