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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the policy of the Health Service Executive with regard to how soon physiotherapy should begin after a person has suffered a stroke; the way this policy compares with international best practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27030/07]

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (6 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 295: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when funding for the pier on Inishboffin Island, County Donegal will be made available; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Donegal County Council have approved counter-funding for this project and are awaiting funding from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27143/07]

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he has proposals for Dáil reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18794/07]

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the establishment of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. I hope all MPs in the Six Counties will avail of the opportunity to attend meetings of the committee and to participate in its activities. I do not doubt that the Taoiseach will echo my call. In light of the establishment of the committee, where stands the Taoiseach's original proposal...

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Taoiseach's continued support for the original proposal he made. I would like to restate my own support for it. I hope the other party leaders will note what he has said. I hope too much time will not pass before the original proposition is revisited, which would be of singular importance. The Taoiseach has suggested that some of us would like him to spend much more time...

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would prefer the Taoiseach to come to the House one day a week and actually answer the questions he is asked, rather than taking the approach he adopts most of the time. The Taoiseach seems unwilling to outline his position on an increase in sitting weeks, on his power to dissolve the Dáil and call a general election or on the allocation of committee chairs under the d'Hondt system....

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect, former Deputy Joe Higgins was one of only three Deputies, including the Minister of State, Deputy Sargent, and myself. The time was shared on a turnabout basis between the three of us out of a Technical Group of 22 Deputies, in fact, even one more than the Labour Party.

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Nevertheless it was still one more than the Labour Party. If the Taoiseach wishes to bring it down to that type of comparison, he had better deal with the facts.

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are talking about an Opposition party.

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach says I should be really grateful but my gratitude is reserved for the people of Cavan and Monaghan. I would hopehe would take on board the sense of establishing that balance and allowing the smaller Opposition parties——

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Minister of State with responsibility for children, Deputy Brendan Smith, to come into the Dáil to make a detailed statement and to answer questions on his intentions with regard to the community child care subvention scheme, the new system of funding for community and...

Order of Business. (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I too support fully the call by Deputy Kenny for an increase in the time allocation for statements on this important issue. We have to view the proposition in the context of the Minister continually referring the bulk of parliamentary questions to her to the HSE. Up to six in every ten questions are virtually kicked to touch and Members are denied access to the information flow that was...

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed) (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: People throughout the country have been appalled at the plight of the women who were given the all clear after breast cancer screening but who have now been diagnosed with cancer. Many more women may well be affected. Our sympathy and solidarity goes out to all of them. It is scandalous that so many women should have been let down so badly. A total of 3,000 mammograms have been reviewed in...

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What does the Minister propose to do to bring to a satisfactory standard the current inadequate regulation of radiological equipment in hospitals? Why have the HSE and the Department of Health and Children failed to provide for the replacement of old equipment in the various radiation units in our hospitals? How does the Minister respond to the charge that patients have been denied access...

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will it be located in either Letterkenny or Altnagelvin?

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed). (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Why will the Government not spend money to replace aging equipment?

Written Answers — Citizenship Eligibility Requirements: Citizenship Eligibility Requirements (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the introduction of an English language test for applicants for long term residency citizenship will be introduced on an [i]ad hoc [/i]basis or if the Government will put in place the structures necessary beforehand and then introduce the test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26632/07]

Written Answers — Court Procedures: Court Procedures (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on reports over summer 2007 that thousands of defective summons were in circulation due to problems with the PULSE system following changes to the legislation governing the District Court rules necessitating Gardaí to track down court summons and re-write them by hand. [27396/07]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding her plans to co-locate private for profit hospitals on the sites of public hospitals; the number of locations involved in the process; the stage which the tendering process has reached in each case; the contracts which have been signed and the companies to whom contracts have been awarded; the cost of the...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in processing to full and final approval the essential works required at a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; the status of the application in her Department; the prospect of an early approval to proceed to tender issuing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27695/07]