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Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations Mr. Kofi Annan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21599/06]

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach note that I welcome his commitment at the United Nations in New York to increase Government spending on development aid to tackle HIV and other communicable diseases? Will he confirm that it is the Government's intention to live up to the new commitment of ensuring the delivery of 0.7% of GNP for overseas development aid by 2012? As he knows, the earlier commitment was to...

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——to bear these costs because these are the agencies who have saddled poor countries with these debts?

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If we are to continue to pay it in the absence of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund taking up their responsibilities, will the Taoiseach indicate to the House his willingness to exclude this significant sum from the overall calculation? Does the Taoiseach agree that it is an obscenity that some €300 billion has been spent by the United States on its wars in Afghanistan and...

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——had been directed to tackle HIV and other communicable diseases in the world, a greater service to humanity would have been achieved?

Official Engagements. (21 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: But there is no practical return.

Order of Business. (21 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Order of Business. (21 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to record our objection to the utilisation of the guillotine on Second Stage of the Road Traffic Bill. Contrary to recent commentary outside this House, the reality is that Members of all views are anxious to see this legislation progress speedily and that it be all-encompassing. It contains deficiencies that we would like to see addressed, but I do not believe a guillotine is the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the difficulties experienced by grandparents looking after their addict son or daughter's children, he will review the access criteria for these grandparents in relation to the orphans allowance and increase same to be in line with the foster allowance. [23026/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty grandparents looking after the children of their addict sons or daughters have especially regarding the area of abandonment; and if he proposes to review the criteria and the amount paid by the orphan's allowance. [23027/06]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients treated under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and the number of these treated in the same hospital for which they were on the waiting list for treatment. [23538/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of speech and language therapists currently serving the public health system in each Health Service Executive area; their location; the status of their appointment; the guiding ratio per head of population; the number of unfilled positions by area; the steps she will take to address the shortage of qualified...

Written Answers — Emigrant Support Services: Emigrant Support Services (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the sums committed and those transferred directly or drawn down in each of the years 2004, 2005 and to date in 2006 and projected to year end for emigrant support projects in Britain; the location of each recipient group and their stated programme of work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23533/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 318: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question Number 42 of 10 May 2006, if he will confirm whether, in a case where a fire-fighter must seek employment within the geographical area of his or her retainer contract with a local authority, such a contract could be used by a deciding officer to determine that this is an unreasonable restriction...

Written Answers — Poultry Industry: Poultry Industry (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her proposals placed before the EU Commissioner in Brussels on 17 May 2006 designed to aid and assist the poultry sector here currently facing severe financial hardship as a result of contraction in both the domestic and international markets for poultry meat; if approval has issued for the package of measures tabled; when she intends...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 385: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has established if the Gardaí at any level were advised in advance of the planned bomb attack on the Sinn Féin offices in Monaghan in March 1997 which was known to members of the RUC special branch and British Army intelligence for some time before the attack took place; and if he will make a statement on the...

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given the ever-spiralling house prices, the increasing interest rates now applying and 44,000 family units on local authority waiting lists, has the Government any proposals to bring forward the housing miscellaneous provisions Bill——

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Government intend to bring forward the housing miscellaneous provisions Bill from its scheduled date? Regarding publication of the cancer strategy, will the Government indicate its willingness to allow for a proper debate before——

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It certainly does. Whether the Government will allow——

Order of Business. (20 Jun 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can we have a debate on the cancer strategy announced last week?