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Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Of course it was not confined to Fianna Fáil. Fine Gael has shown, through the tribunals, that it too shares a similar culture. There is no suggestion that members of the current Fianna Fáil-PD Cabinet have personally benefited from bribes or backhanders during their term of office. However, there is an old saying about the British journalist that could be adapted to this Government:...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——the way Dublin Castle and the Kildare Street Club once were.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The gulf of inequality within our society has widened, something the new Tánaiste, the self-styled moral guardian of the Government, thinks is a good thing. If it was wrong for the then Minister for Finance to accept money gifts from wealthy business people in 1994, is it not even more wrong for a Taoiseach and the Government to have surrendered the State's housing policy for the past...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——with the ever spiralling costs of housing.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: These are the same developers who successfully lobbied the Government to amend Part V of the Planning and Development Act so they would not have to meet their legal obligation to provide 20% social and affordable housing in all developments. This Government has brought in a form of legalised bribery——

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——because it has allowed the developers to pay off the local authorities.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What other lobby group could have turned around key legislation in the same way?

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is just one of the many reasons this Taoiseach, this Tánaiste and the rest of this Cabinet should be thrown out of Government. These are far bigger issues than the current controversy. It is a shame on many in this House and, indeed, on commentators in the media, that they have failed to recognise them.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the Manchester payment was, in the words of the Irish Independent, "morally wrong", are decisions which adversely affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people not also morally wrong? Are they not also deserving of media attention and commentary? What about the massive tax breaks and the allocation of land at public hospital sites for developers of private for-profit hospitals?...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I might add there are no marches on the streets about the current controversy but people are taking to the streets demanding their healthcare rights, as we saw recently in Monaghan and as we will see again on Saturday, 21 October when we in Sinn Féin hold a healthcare rally in Dublin.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the last number of weeks we have seen the announcement of almost 1,400 job losses across this State in Limerick, Carlow, Cork, Waterford, Inchicore in Dublin and in my home county of Monaghan. It is unlikely however, that many of them will have circles of wealthy friends ready to help them out in such a time of financial crisis. Today, at Ballinaboy in Mayo, we saw another example of the...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a pity, a Cheann Comhairle, that you would not endeavour to allow me the same opportunity to be heard in this House as every other Member. However, the cacophony of fools will not drown out the truth as the people know it only too well.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This morning two of the protesters were injured while being dragged from the road at the behest of Shell. What about the role of former Minister, Ray Burke, in the negotiation of the terms for oil and gas exploration, the most generous offered anywhere in the world to the major multinationals? Let there be no mistake about it, the people deserve an explanation from the Taoiseach about this...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To look at a different aspect of this, because there has been quite a lot of repetition, when does the Taoiseach believe the former Tánaiste became aware of the questions that have confronted him in recent weeks? Does he have any concern that she may have known of impending questions and that it might have, in some way, influenced her decision to vacate her role as Tánaiste when she did?...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the leaks by the Tánaiste? Does the Taoiseach not see any direct connection? Is he prepared to condemn across the board?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the disgraceful manner in which the State has consistently taken the side of the Corrib gas consortium against the interests of the people of north County Mayo and the economic interests of the people of Ireland in forcing through a development that is unsafe and will bring no economic benefits given the current licensing...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Publication of the Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill, which until the summer recess was expected between now and Christmas, is expected early in 2007 according to the new programme. Will it be published before the dissolution of the current Dáil? Publication of the Health Bill, which we were told in the last programme would be in the summer, is now expected in 2007. Does the Taoiseach intend to...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach expect it will be published before the general election?

Written Answers — Youth Justice Policy: Youth Justice Policy (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will justify his assertion that Irish public opinion supported an age of criminal responsibility of ten, and that the Irish public demanded that criminal prosecutions be pursued against 11 year old children who commit serious offences. [30690/06]

Written Answers — Prison Medical Service: Prison Medical Service (3 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he has taken since the passage of the Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006 to eliminate the practice whereby offenders suffering mental illnesses and disabilities are detained in prisons where appropriate services are not available to them thus placing the safety and welfare of themselves and other...