Results 361-380 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 2 November 2004, the progress there has been in the development of a village complex for 60 residents with an intellectual disability on the campus at St. Ita's Hospital, Portrane, County Dublin. [1627/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 292: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the numbers on acute hospital waiting lists by each region and hospital. [1634/05]

Written Answers — Consultants' Common Contract: Consultants' Common Contract (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress in the negotiation of a revised contract for hospital consultants to ensure greater equity for public patients as promised in action 89 of Quality and Fairness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1635/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reasons for terminating the suspensions of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1636/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she proposes to take on foot of the RCSI report on surgical services at Cavan General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1637/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals for action regarding the future of surgical services at Monaghan General Hospital in view of her meeting with Cavan-Monaghan Oireachtas Members to address this matter on 9 December 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1638/05]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (26 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 758: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the denial on appeal of a visa to a person (details supplied). [1647/05]

Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On behalf of the Sinn Féin Deputies and our team in Leinster House, I would like to associate with the good wishes to Mr. Des Edwards for his service here through the years and for his courtesy to each of us and to myself when I first came to the House on my own in 1997. I would like to associate him as one of the trinity of those who have been the pillars of the permanent staff of this...

Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the autumn schedule of promised legislation the Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill was listed and scheduled to be taken this year. In the new programme of Government legislation just published it does not appear to be listed, unless I cannot find it. What has happened to this promised legislation? If it has fallen off the table will the Minister take steps to have it restored? As it is such...

Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister might take note of the Department under whose aegis this falls and ask whether it is the appropriate Department.

Disability Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Jan 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not only is this Bill not good enough for the citizens of this island with disabilities and their families, it is an insult to them and to all of us for whom equality is a core value. It is not a rights-based Bill, it is a resource-based Bill. For equal rights to be so heavily circumscribed by the dictates of a Minister for Finance, which is sometimes described as the fourth wealthiest state...

Information Society. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the recent work that has been carried out in his Department to review the Government's information society policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1386/05]

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Tánaiste taken the time to inform herself of the details in the major report published on Monday of last week? It states that almost one in four of our population, or 23%, either live with or are at risk of poverty. It also states that nearly one in ten are living in consistent poverty. Does the Tánaiste agree that this report is a damning indictment of Irish society and of...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am finishing on this.

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would like the Ceann Comhairle to allow me to finish the sentence. The Minister of State, Deputy Ahern, has cut off critical funding. What is the Tánaiste's position on this? Will she help to see that funding restored?

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Tánaiste agree that we have the resources to ensure that no child has to live with deprivation? Would she use her office to impress upon her colleagues the importance of ensuring that child benefit is raised to the level her Government had set as a target for this current year? That target is €149 per month for the first and second child. Will she also address the issue of child...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking the Tánaiste.

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was signalled that the adoption Bill, incorporating the Hague convention, the adoption authority and miscellaneous items, would be published this year. In the current legislative programme, however, it is due in late 2005. Why is there a further delay? Will the Tánaiste guarantee that it will come before the House before the end of 2005?

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on progress to date on the decentralisation of Departments, including the location of sites acquired and the amount spent thus far on acquisition of properties outside Dublin for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2598/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (1 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a copy of the recent Irish Congress of Trade Unions report on inequality in the taxation system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2599/05]