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Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——to indicate that a favourable accommodation will be reached now, rather than later.

Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We need some clarity now if we are to proceed with these proposals.

Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I urge support for the amendment that I will propose.

Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a shameful reflection on this Chamber.

Orders of Reference of Committees: Motion (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 1: To insert betweeen lines 6 and 7— "Select Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that the Orders of Reference of the following Select Committees be amended in paragraph (1)(a) by the deletion of '11 members' and the substitution therefor of '15 members': I submitted an amendment and I regret that the Journal Office has produced and arranged for the circulation...

Orders of Reference of Committees: Motion (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Ceann Comhairle must appreciate that we did not see the motion until this morning. The amendment was tabled in time and I am not here to look for concessions or sweets from anybody's trolley, only for fair play and justice.

Orders of Reference of Committees: Motion (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The net effect of my amendment would be that the motion would have the introductory paragraph extending the membership from 11 to 13 of two committees, namely the Select Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, and the Select Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and that the like paragraph would extend the membership from 11 to 15 in the Select...

Orders of Reference of Committees: Motion (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking for full support.

Orders of Reference of Committees: Motion (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I must now advise the House that the second circulated text of the amendment is also wrong. Will the Ceann Comhairle confirm that the correct text will be recorded in the Official Report?

Appointment of Members to Committees: Motion. (25 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed. I object to the appointment of Members to the committee to the exclusion of any Member and to the process of selection of Members that has been employed by this House.

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (31 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister agree it is time to review the benchmarking against which social welfare payments are set in order to ensure they are adequate to meet the cost of living needs — I emphasise "needs" — of those dependent on social welfare payments and their children? Did the Minister examine the report produced last year by the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice? If so, can he...

Data Protection. (31 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given that there seems to be some uncertainty as to the number of such abuses — while the Minister spoke of a number of cases of which he is aware, he must accept that there may be many more cases of which he is not aware or which have not yet come to light — in trying to address all these issues, what additional security measures has the Department introduced to prevent the disclosure of...

Pension Provisions. (31 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am mindful of the Minister's previous response in respect of targeting those most in need. In this context, does he not agree that the current tax incentives surrounding pension provision are skewed in the interests of those who are able to afford pensions or are the most well off, with a resultant significant cost to the Exchequer, and that they are ineffective policy instruments in terms...

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach the nature of the assistance to be given by his Department to Independent Deputies with whom he has concluded agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16862/07]

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Following the general election, Deputy Healy-Rae stated he had an agreement which he described as "private and personal".

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach agree that any agreement involving public administration or the expenditure of public money can not be described as private or personal? If the Taoiseach has an agreement with the Independent Deputies, does he accept he has a duty to place copies of such an agreement in the Oireachtas Library? There is a strong belief in this Chamber, and not for any idle reasons, that...

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: You are welcome to it nonetheless.

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I again invite the Taoiseach to come clean.

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach has again carefully avoided answering the question about Deputy Healy-Rae's Chair of an Oireachtas committee. Was there an understanding between the Deputy and the Taoiseach, or anybody acting on his behalf, that gave him to understand he would have the Chair of an Oireachtas committee as part of the arrangement for his support?