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Decentralisation Programme. (7 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Civil Service relocation programme as it affects his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6766/07]

Written Answers — Hepatitis C Incidence: Hepatitis C Incidence (8 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people presenting for cocaine addiction who have contracted Hepatitis C; if it is possible to contract Hepatitis C from sharing the straw used to sniff cocaine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9207/07]

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the criteria for providing assistance to certain Members of Dáil Éireann based on their support for the Government, over and above the facilities provided to all other Teachtaí Dála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6767/07]

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Are civil servants directly involved in these briefings or the outworking of the special relationship that exists between the Government and certain Independent Deputies? If civil servants are involved in these special advices, is it not inappropriate because civil servants are meant to offer an unbiased and unfavoured service to all in the community and all elected representatives? Will...

Public Relations Contracts. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the changes brought about as a result of the work of the group established in his Department to oversee the awarding of public relations contracts by Ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9639/07]

Public Relations Contracts. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Taoiseach for his kind remarks earlier and all Members of both Houses who contacted me and my offices over the period of my recent illness. In relation to the group established in the Taoiseach's Department to oversee the awarding of public relations contracts and the information he has already shared with us this afternoon, surely there must be a wider remit than just oversight....

Departmental Staff. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on staffing arrangements in the Office of the Attorney General; the proportion of work contracted out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9640/07]

Tax Code. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the possible impact on the economy of legislation currently before the US Senate to restrict US companies' deferral of taxation on foreign earnings to revenues from products and services both rendered and sold or consumed in the foreign country in view of the fact that this legislation is predicted to have a dramatic impact on US...

Tax Code. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Government discussed these impending developments in US legislation with US authorities at any level? In the course of his recent visit to the United States did the Taoiseach refer to them in his conversations with President Bush or other key political players he met there? The Minister has confirmed an awareness of developments in this regard in the United States and will keep a...

Tax Code. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister.

Tax Code. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Taking on board the Minister's comments and not wishing to join those who predict a worst case scenario, nevertheless, does he not agree that a responsible Government would recognise that, where a threat exists, it is incumbent on Government to exercise all the influence it can not only to cushion the effect on foreign direct investment in this jurisdiction and economy but particularly to...

Tax Code. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Of course it is not.

Tax Collection. (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister have any idea of the number of investigations carried out by the Revenue Commissioners in 2006 into the veracity of claims by certain individuals to be non-resident for tax purposes? Is he satisfied the Revenue Commissioners have sufficient resources to monitor and assess new and developing means of tax evasion that some fly players in the financial sector might...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I, too, noted the Taoiseach's responses of 28 February on this issue. He indicated, and I ask him to revisit it this afternoon, that he had no knowledge of proposed contracts in regard to the co-location on public hospital sites of private for profit hospitals. I also noted on that occasion that he indicated he would give no guarantee to this House that he would not sign contracts for same...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: All of that information is contained in the response to Question No. 867 from the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, the former Tánaiste. It does not hold much weight that the Taoiseach could not have known of such an important intent on the part of a key Minister and Ministry within his Cabinet and Government. How can the Taoiseach reconcile such a proposal? Why, even at...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That, in effect, is what he will be doing.

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What evidence does the Taoiseach have to support the proposition he now defends — the notion and idea mooted by the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and the Progressive Democrats? With his declared position the Taoiseach has now become a champion for it. Regardless of the position on leasing or selling, does the Taoiseach not recognise that this is a DBO — design, build...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Taoiseach aware that nowhere within the health strategy or the programme for Government was there any reference to it and yet today he is again prepared to indicate a willingness to sign contracts that will bind future Governments and the State into arrangements with people whose intent is to create a whole new stratum of private, profit-driven health care in this jurisdiction? For...

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——in the interests of those dependent on the public health services shows how far removed from the reality of people's lives he has become. The Government has completely lost its way regarding health care.

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is nothing he can do to assuage the fears of eminent consultants and those at the coalface of the delivery of health care who continually state in the case of this proposal that the Government has no clothes——