Results 4,441-4,460 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What other interpretation would Deputy Gilmore put on it?

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The public consultation programme on the nurses and midwives Bill ended on 4 February. We are advised that the heads of the Bill have been prepared but are further heads to be prepared and when will they be published? Does the Taoiseach have a target date for the publication of this long promised and necessary health-related Bill?

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the heads of the Bill be published?

Mental Health Facilities. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The list a previous speaker read out of organisations and voices opposed to the proposition of siting the Central Mental Hospital on the same site as the new so-called super prison to be located at Thornton Hall is not exhaustive. Without question, one could add to that list the Mental Health Commission, the clinical director of the Central Mental Hospital, the families and carers of the...

Mental Health Facilities. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It will have a separate entrance. That is absolutely wonderful.

Hospital Staff. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has indicated that she regards the scandalous delays of up to 18 months in diagnostic procedures for cancer, including colonoscopy, as unacceptable. She has also cited the new consultants' contract as a means to address the situation. Will the Minister advise the House on how exactly that will be done, where the new consultants will be deployed and how that will impact on the...

Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister confirm she wrote to the chairman of the HSE, Mr. Liam Downey, as regards the executive's national service plan? In the course of that correspondence, did she express concern over shortfalls in services to be provided in 2008 under the plan, especially in the whole area of mental health, as Deputy O'Sullivan has indicated, as well as primary care? How is the service plan...

Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Do we have enough general practitioners?

Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We must remember that the unit to be developed at Beaumont Hospital has been promised since the 1980s, yet an archaic and antiquated facility continues to operate at Portrane. Will the Minister of State indicate whether the identified site is on the site identified for the Minister's precious so-called co-located private hospital arrangement? What is the position on the proposal to develop...

Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the co-location proposal resulted in the movement of the proposed psychiatric unit from the site originally intended?

Written Answers — Organ Retention: Organ Retention (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish the report of Dunne Inquiry into organ retention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9282/08]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the decision of the Health Service Executive north east to accept only urgent or emergency child and adolescent psychiatric referrals from general practitioners in Cavan and Monaghan for at least the next four months; and the action she will undertake to reverse this cutback in services. [9281/08]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, pending the outcome of the Government's consideration of a scheme to assist voluntary sporting and community groups acquire defibrillators, she will propose the reduction of VAT on the purchase of defibrillators to 13.5%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9491/08]

World Trade Organisation: Statements (6 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The importance of agriculture to the economy is illustrated by the fact that 10% of our trade is in agricultural produce. The greater proportion of that is within the European Union. The potential danger to Irish trade presented by the approach that Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is adopting in the WTO negotiations is illustrated by the fact that at present over 60% of our exports and...

Written Answers — Capitation Grants: Capitation Grants (6 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the over reliance of primary schools on fundraising by parents and communities, she will support the reversal of the Government's decision not to double the primary capitation grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9930/08]

Constitutional Amendments. (11 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referenda he will hold in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4976/08]

Constitutional Amendments. (11 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is é seo Seachtain na Gaeilge. Ba mhaith liom úsáid na Gaeilge i rith na seachtaine a mholadh do gach uile Theachta. Cuirfidh mé tús leis sin trí cheist a chuir trí Ghaeilge. Ar cén dáta an mbeidh an reifreann ar chonradh Liospóin? I ask, as has already been put to the Taoiseach, whether he is in a position to name a date for the referendum on the Lisbon treaty. Does he accept...

Constitutional Amendments. (11 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a question. I have asked the Taoiseach——

Constitutional Amendments. (11 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a question. I have asked the Taoiseach whether he is aware of this development in the European Parliament. I am sure that is crystal clear as a question to anyone in the House. Will the Taoiseach clarify his reaction to the European Parliament's decision to indicate that it will not respect the Irish people's decision on the Lisbon treaty? Is there any explanation of why one of the...

Constitutional Amendments. (11 Mar 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach need not worry. That is very easily answered. I am delighted the Taoiseach has reversed the order of things here. Maybe it is prophetic——