Results 19,781-19,800 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Departmental Estimates. (14 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is the position regarding the all-Ireland civic forum?

Public-Private Partnerships. (14 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent meeting of the cross-departmental team on housing, infrastructure and public-private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38705/05]

Public-Private Partnerships. (14 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the cross-departmental team examined the issue of housing in the private rented sector? Is the Taoiseach aware that the number of households in receipt of rent supplements equates to 40% of the total in private rented accommodation? Does the Taoiseach agree that clearly these are people who should be accommodated within the social housing provision? Does he accept that the State has...

Public-Private Partnerships. (14 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Very well. Will the Taoiseach advise the cross-departmental team to address the matter I have described? As regards the 10,000 promised so-called affordable houses under Sustaining Progress, will the Taoiseach advise whether the cross-departmental team has been or is intent on doing anything to speed up the delivery of this disgracefully slow commitment?

Public-Private Partnerships. (14 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My question was whether they had addressed the issue of the subsidisation of 40% of all private rented accommodation.

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to record my opposition, as I have done before, to the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005. The proposal that No. 12 be taken immediately after the Second Stage resumption and decided without debate is yet another slight on the workings of this House. On a matter of such importance, it is typical of the last days of any session of this House in my experience since 1997...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 475: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the criteria governing spending by a local authority of moneys accruing when, for example, a local authority sells a parcel of land; the categories of projects or items on which such moneys can be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38658/05]

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Sinn Féin fully supports the Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2005 and thanks the Labour Party Deputies for introducing it. The problems it seeks to rectify have been allowed to persist for far too long, with the terrible consequence that families have been denied justice, and the court has been restricted in its ability to identity recommendations to prevent further fatalities. We join in...

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have the floor.

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister's head is full of nonsense. My colleagues and I will face the Minister in every electoral contest armed only with whatever skills we have been born with and whatever funding we can raise legitimately, such as I have depended on in every election I have contested, during which I have faced all of the different voices in this House. To promote or perpetuate the notion that the...

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They belong only to the Minister.

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How did the Minister obtain and transfer the document?

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are just prepared to work harder.

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has come to the wrong conclusions.

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Perhaps the Minister would like to tell the House that he got his own €100,000 contribution at a function in London.

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No. a19 is a statement by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in regard to information now in the public domain reflecting on the probity and past conduct and fitness to hold office of the chief executive of the Centre for Public Inquiry. What has this House become? This is not a court of law to determine whether the chief executive of the Centre for Public Inquiry can hold...

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It should concern the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform himself.

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It should concern his integrity and whether he should hold office——

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——given what he has admitted to having done.

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am not debating this matter. I am making a clear point on why I object to the matter being taken now.