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Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1303: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her legislative plans for the coming Dáil session that will address the issue of vocational education committees having sole responsibility for the administration of all new applications for third level college grants from 2007; will the same legislation provide for a new unified scheme; the measures she proposes to introduce to...

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the meetings or contacts he has scheduled with the British Prime Minister in relation to the Irish peace process before the resumption of Dáil Éireann in September 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25991/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 22: To ask the Taoiseach the outcome of meetings he or his officials have held with representatives of loyalism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28282/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 23: To ask the Taoiseach the contacts he has had with the British Prime Minister about the Irish peace process since the adjournment of Dáil Éireann in July 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28283/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 24: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department uses the services of economic advisers; and if such advisers are engaged to advise on economic issues in relation to the Six Counties and all-Ireland matters. [28284/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Taoiseach aware that the continued participation of Sinn Féin in the Hain approach at the Assembly is geared solely towards the full restoration of the Good Friday Agreement? Is the Taoiseach aware there are real concerns, both within Sinn Féin and across Nationalist and republican opinion within the North of Ireland and throughout this island, that many Unionist representatives...

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No.

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Ceann Comhairle is welcome back from Monaghan. In light of the evidence given today, will the Taoiseach recognise that the call I made to him previously to seek a special summit with the British Prime Minister on the whole area of collusion has been given greater impetus? Over the summer period did the Taoiseach ask the British Prime Minister to accede to such a request for a special...

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach did not reply to my question on the evidence given today by a senior Garda officer at a meeting of the Sub-Committee on the Barron Report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights.

Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That information was known prior to the event.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the crisis in hospital services in the north-east region in the wake of the Teamwork report and the report into the death of Mr. Pat Joe Walsh and the resulting decisions of the HSE to cut vital services at Monaghan General Hospital thus placing further pressure on hard-pressed accident and...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given the recent reports of housing developers refusing to build social and affordable housing under Part V of the Planning and Development Act, will the Taoiseach bring forward the housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill and include in it the reinstatement in full of Part V, which the Government gutted at the behest of developers and speculators? The eligibility for health and personal...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will it restore Part V of the planning legislation?

Hospital Staff. (27 Sep 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is it acceptable that five years after the Government's health strategy which promised a new consultants' contract talks leading to it have not even begun? What is the Tánaiste's view on this? Gabh mo leithscéal, I meant former Tánaiste. Will she acknowledge that this Government, of which she is an integral part, and a succession of other Governments, have allowed an elite in the...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (6 Jul 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of places being provided under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme in June 2006 compared to the number in 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28077/06]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (6 Jul 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 53: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent of her Department's responsibility for child care; if there have been any changes in allocation of responsibilities between Departments, Ministers and Ministers of State in the area of child care in the past year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28078/06]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (6 Jul 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delays in issuing or responding to medical card applications; the further reason the required documentation is not listed on the application form; the reason patients with serious illnesses are not prioritised; her plans to address these issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27575/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Jul 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to reports that the Health Service Executive office for the north west Dublin region is difficult to contact by telephone as the phones frequently ring out; and the steps she will take to address this problem. [27576/06]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (6 Jul 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to ensure the renegotiation of the consultants' common contract to deliver equity of access for public hospital patients; if she will support the Health Service Executive in proceeding with the appointment of consultants on a public hospital service only basis; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (6 Jul 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number and location of public hospital sites where it is proposed to construct private hospital facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27728/06]