Results 4,881-4,900 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Written Answers — Protection of Children: Protection of Children (19 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the extent with which Government agencies and others comply with the Children First guidelines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24237/08]

Written Answers — Garda Vetting Services: Garda Vetting Services (19 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress achieved to date in co-operation with the Six Counties authorities on the exchange of information for vetting persons working with children. [24238/08]

Written Answers — Garda Vetting Services: Garda Vetting Services (19 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is contemplating changes in vetting services that would comply with or mirror the expanded services in the Six Counties under the new ACCESS NI background checking service. [24239/08]

Written Answers — Garda Vetting Services: Garda Vetting Services (19 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the sports organisations that carry out vetting of their paid and non-paid personnel working with children; and the number of vetting applications per organisation, to date in 2008. [24240/08]

Written Answers — Garda Vetting Services: Garda Vetting Services (19 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff in the Garda Vetting Unit; the number of applications dealt with annually; and the average processing time per application. [24241/08]

Public Service Reform. (24 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the remit and membership of the task force to develop a new action plan for the public service of the 21st century; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20939/08]

Public Service Reform. (24 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to address the composition of the task force. Will the Taoiseach confirm that one of the aims and objectives of the new task force in preparing an action plan is to see an improvement in the delivery of services through the public service? If that is the case — other questioners have raised the issue of engagement with other sectors — does the Taoiseach not agree that the...

Public Service Reform. (24 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept that. Having heard how the Taoiseach responded, I am still not convinced the cadre of people who have been appointed have any monopoly on the wisdom of how an action plan could be outworked in terms of the development of a better public service to ensure the delivery of services to the ordinary citizen which should be its central objective. I ask again whether the Taoiseach will...

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With obvious deferrals of planned investment in areas covering people with disabilities, the elderly and children and cutbacks already biting, what——

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——efforts are the Taoiseach and his colleagues making to introduce the eligibility for health and personal social services Bill?

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (24 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Monaghan is in financial crisis due to the lack of funding allocated by his Department towards the building of an extension, that his Department allocated €478,000 to the project while the lowest tender for the development was €555,735, and...

Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (24 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 396: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of homeless people who are British citizens; the number who are EU citizens from outside Britain or Ireland; the number who are non-EU citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24349/08]

Written Answers — Electoral Management System: Electoral Management System (24 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 414: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to ensure that all polling places in future elections and referenda are accessible to people with disabilities. [24837/08]

European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the German Chancellor, Ms Angela Merkel on 14 April 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15231/08]

European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Hans-Gert Pöttering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15235/08]

European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his participation at the European Council meeting on 19 June 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24423/08]

European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Chancellor Merkel used her visit here to call for a "Yes" vote in the Lisbon treaty referendum. Has the Taoiseach had the opportunity to speak directly to the German Chancellor since the referendum result of 12 June? Has he availed of an opportunity to impress upon her and other European member state leaders, as he should do, that the process of ratification of the reform treaty cannot now...

European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The history of the Taoiseach's party is obviously forgotten.

European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When we use the opportunity here to engage in debate about issues such as the Lisbon treaty and the Taoiseach resorts to that type of response in terms of a physical force background, it is a sure indication that he has lost the argument and that he has no answer.

European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect, I have addressed the issues here. As presumably the only person in the Chamber at the moment who voted "No", I am telling the Taoiseach that I have the right to put my case to him. He resorts to raising the issue of physical force backgrounds. There is no party represented here which does not have that.