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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.

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To facilitate the Tánaiste, the eligibility for health and personal social services Bill is No. 55 on the legislative programme.

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...

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...

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]

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...

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...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the British Home Office report published in October 2005 which describes female genital mutilation as a cultural tradition in view of the universal recognition that violence against women is a human rights issue and that female genital mutilation is a form of violence against women. [9762/06]

Written Answers — Independent Monitoring Commission: Independent Monitoring Commission (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to the State to date in 2006 of the Independent Monitoring Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3865/06]

Written Answers — Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol Abuse (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to the recommendation referred to in Question No. 268 of 31 January 2006, that a group, representative of all stakeholders, be established to consider what useful information could be included on non-draft alcohol products, taking account of international evidence, if she will confirm the stage this process is...

Written Answers — Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol Abuse (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of previous policy statements during the launch of the strategic task force on alcohol in September 2004, the issues of alcohol and pregnancy and lifelong foetal alcohol spectrum disorders have been included in both the high risk and under-age drinking areas of interest in the three-category remit for the...

Written Answers — Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol Abuse (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the membership of the steering committee of the working group on alcohol and the number and proportion of whom have a vested interest or background in the drinks production or service industry. [9839/06]

Written Answers — Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol Abuse (9 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is her intention that the working group on alcohol will replace the strategic task force on alcohol or that, acting on the recommendations of the second report of the strategic task force on alcohol, that the working group on alcohol should offer supplementary advice at a more hands-on level in each sector. [9840/06]

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]