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Order of Business (27 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same proposition in respect of the fair deal legislation and the proposals contained in it regarding funding for nursing homes, is the Taoiseach indicating he will not attempt to rush the legislation through the House before Christmas? Will the Taoiseach confirm there will be the necessary further consultation required to address and assuage the fears of many older citizens? In...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Sinn Féin Deputies support the Labour Party motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. We have also tabled our own motion of no confidence, which states: That Dáil Éireann, noting: the scandalous misdiagnosis of women who were screened for cancer in the Midlands region; the crisis in cancer care including the inadequate provision of radiation...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is clearly a message the Minister and her Cabinet colleagues do not want the public to hear. They are privatising by stealth while pretending to defend the public health system, but early in her role as Minister, Deputy Harney——

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——showed her true Progressive Democrats colours. She said in 2004 that she believed in "a minimalist role for the State in all our lives, including health care". The following year, she stated: "More and more people are getting private health care is a good thing. It is a sign of increasing disposable income." My time has expired and I am sorry the Ceann Comhairle did not give me an...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not only should the Minister go, as I have made patently clear from her appointment following the recent general election, but she should not have been appointed in the first place.

Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given that the communications unit in the Taoiseach's Department is staffed by established civil servants and that it provides a news monitoring service not only to his Department, but to other Ministers and Departments, can it not be arranged that its product, its news monitoring service, should be made available through the Oireachtas Library and for all Members to have equal access to the...

Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With all respect, there is hardly any great secrecy around items which are news. This is something to which we have general access through the reportage of our friends in the Fourth Estate. Surely it is a very reasonable request that, in order to establish equality of membership of this House and the associate Chamber, the information flow, the reports from the communications unit, should...

Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We could arrange an interview for the Taoiseach with An Phoblacht.

Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach recognise that, in his early responses to questions on this matter, he himself placed the civil servants in the communications unit on a par with party political work and activism? It was the Taoiseach in his earlier response to me who said he would only look at it in a situation where we in Sinn Féin, for instance, would share our internal communications.

Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach has repeated this in his responses to Deputies Kenny and Gilmore. It is the Taoiseach in his responses who has politicised the work of those involved in the communications unit. He is the one who has done the greatest disservice to the independence of the Civil Service in his continuing refusal to respect the right of all Members to the reportage this team of established and...

Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The record is there.

Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A Cheann Comhairle, just as the material——

Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As none of the material comes under the Official Secrets Act, it should be out in the open and everyone should have access to it.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to address the widespread concern among communities along the entire route of the planned power lines through Counties Meath, Cavan,...

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yesterday, the national newspapers carried an advertisement placed by the Irish Haemophilia Society, the Irish Kidney Association, Positive Action and Transfusion Positive, highlighting how the insurance scheme for people infected with hepatitis C and HIV through contaminated blood products is not operating properly. The commencement order for the scheme was signed by the Minister for Health...

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Ceann Comhairle allow me to finish my question?

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach cannot gloss over something of such importance to people who are dying or whose quality of life has been seriously impaired as a result of State neglect.

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I apologise for speaking over Deputy Brian Hayes; that is not my intention. I persist in my questioning because of the import of this issue and because these eminent organisations——

Order of Business (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach provide a proper response to this pressing issue?

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (28 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason pay parity for agency workers from commencement of employment is outside the scope of the current partnership agreement; and his views on whether agency workers do not deserve the same pay and conditions as their directly employed co-workers doing the same job. [31096/07]