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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department intends providing an independent assessment for persons (details supplied); if so, when this assessment is expected to take place; if not, if it is intended that the children will be left out of school unless and until they accept a place in another school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9885/06]

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste is presiding over an escalating crisis in our hospitals. The Irish Nurses Organisation has called on the Cabinet sub-committee on health to meet to address this crisis. Has the Tánaiste arranged for such a meeting to take place? It is the least that should happen. With a Cabinet sub-committee in place, we do not need further task forces or what can only amount to a token effort...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the failure of the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to ensure proper contracts and decent pay for people working in the home help service who provide vital care for elderly people, allowing them to live with dignity in their homes and helping to reduce the pressure on hospitals and...

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, it is not agreed. On behalf of the Sinn Féin Deputies, I object to the adoption of this motion without debate. Ireland is already a member of the Hague Conference and, as such, has one autonomous vote in the course of all the conference's proceedings. My colleagues and I are concerned that under this motion, the European Community may usurp this independence on the part of all member...

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Following on what can only be described as the debacle of the passage of the Finance Bill through the House earlier in the week, with the guillotine at 11 p.m. and the curtailment of examination and debate, one would have hoped that the appeals of Opposition voices to the Government would have been heard and heeded by those on the Government benches. However, there is repetition once again on...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 70: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his position in respect of recommendations contained in the Indecon report on local government financing, published on 1 March 2006. [9436/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 38: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied that the Private Residential Tenancies Board has the staff and resources required to properly carry out its work in line with the provisions of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. [9435/06]

Inquiry into the murder of Mr. Patrick Finucane: Motion. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before this debate commenced the Northern Ireland Office issued a statement dismissing it. Before I entered the House I was handed a copy of its press release headlined: "Dáil inquiry debate flawed and misleading". They did not even have the courtesy to wait to hear what we had to say and we should respond by feeling spurred on in our attempt. All-party motions of any kind are a rarity in...

Whistleblowers Protection Bill 1999: Motion (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Sinn Féin fully supports this motion from the Labour Party. There are many cases where information which is in the public interest is not revealed because individual workers justifiably fear penalisation by their employer in the absence of measures to protect them if they make such disclosures. Those workers who come forward despite the lack of protection must be commended. The enactment of...

Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In addressing the Harding Clark report tribute must be paid first and foremost to the courageous women who with Patient Focus have struggled for justice over many years. To them alone must go the credit for revealing the full horror of what went on in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. To these women also we owe a debt of gratitude for highlighting many fundamental flaws in our...

Census of Population. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Could the Minister of State tell me when a census will next be held in the Six Counties? Is one scheduled to run close to our own proposed for the coming month? I ask because it is important to marry the various statistical information which can be provided by the censuses in order to provide a national and island-wide view of the profile of the nation. In respect of the electoral register,...

Census of Population. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In taking on board the points already expressed, it is critical that the Minister of State and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government reflect the importance of ensuring the name of every entitled citizen is included on the electoral register and that every entitled citizen is able to exercise his or her right to vote. I agree with earlier speakers that this is an...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the abject failure of the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children's so-called ten point plan for accident and emergency services given the record number of 455 people on trolleys in accident and emergency units in hospitals yesterday; and the need for the Government to fulfil its...

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I concur with the earlier contributors. Given the backdrop to this — we are talking about air navigation — in terms of the Government's current consideration in regard to the future of Aer Lingus, it is important that all the issues that need to be addressed are dealt with in open debate and that all the matters that impinge on air navigation in this country are reflected upon.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Two pharmacy Bills are on the legislative programme, each of which carry the tag, "publication expected 2006". Will the Tánaiste advise when these Bills will be brought forward and if they will allow for registration of pharmacists trained outside the EEA, Australia and New Zealand? In acknowledgement of the day we celebrate today — International Women's Day — I am sure the Tánaiste is...

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have an appropriate question for the Tánaiste if you will allow me to finish the sentence. Cancer screening programmes must be rolled out across the country providing access for all women within the appropriate age groups. Must women have to wait for the eligibility——

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect, a Cheann Comhairle, you cannot second guess everything we are going to say.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I hope you are sorry because I am trying to state the name of the Bill——

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——but I have to contend with your bell. I will not call them interruptions as you do not like that term. The eligibility for health and personal——

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sure the Tánaiste would have replied to all of this while the Ceann Comhairle was not interrupting.