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Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in the communications unit in his Department and their grades and salaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34894/08]

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What a cue.

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How often, in the course of a day, does the Taoiseach take the time to read the reports of the communications unit on its monitoring of broadcast and print media reports? I do not know what is the practice. Does the Taoiseach inform himself personally from this or is it done by someone else within the Department? How does it work? With regard to tendering to the private sector and PR...

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach's response suggests that the product of the working of the unit is only noted in a casual way and that there is no systematic way of monitoring its reports or taking up the information highlighted in the reports. If the Taoiseach is not the person intended to take heed of the information in a substantive way, is there somebody else within the Department who must do so and who...

Interdepartmental Committees. (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions on which the cross-departmental team on housing, infrastructure and public private partnership met in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34895/08]

Interdepartmental Committees. (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social inclusion will next meet. [34896/08]

Interdepartmental Committees. (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the cross-departmental team address the scandalous situation where two private contractors have pulled out of five key social housing projects in Dublin? I refer to St. Michael's estate, O'Devaney Gardens, Dominick Street, the convent lands on Seán McDermott Street and Infirmary Road. Is the Taoiseach aware that communities in these areas have been waiting for years for the...

Interdepartmental Committees. (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach has moved to the other extreme.

Order of Business (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join with colleagues in opposing the proposition to guillotine the Second Stage debate. While it is not referred to in today's Order Paper, it has been signalled that we will face a guillotine. Members will not have the opportunity fully to participate in the address of this legislation. Therefore, there is no option for the Opposition but to oppose the proposal.

Order of Business (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join the leaders of the Fine Gael and Labour parties in expressing my outrage and condemnation at the outrageous and tragic murder of Mr. Shane Geoghegan in Limerick in the early hours of Sunday morning. I join in the extension of sympathy to his family and friends. We are in need of sound legislation compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights to enable the Garda and the...

Order of Business (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to an unrelated but equally important matter. On the programme for Government, the alleged basis on which the Government operates, given that the three component parts thereof are no longer in situ, with the signal demise of the Progressive Democrats who helped to negotiate it, that none of the three leaders who negotiated the programme — Deputies Bertie Ahern, Mary Harney and...

Order of Business (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Was other legislation being considered? I understand that time is required in its preparation, but I have asked a simple question. Is legislation other than the covert surveillance Bill, already addressed here today, being considered by the Government in the context of these serious matters?

Vaccination Programme: Motion (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Once again the Dáil has to call to account Deputy Harney in her capacity as Minister for Health and Children for what I can only describe as yet another disgraceful decision that will have a most negative impact on the health of the people. Last weekend the Minister's party abolished itself but it is a great pity that the anti-people policies of her party, the Progressive Democrats, so long...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her Department has plans to introduce paid paternity leave. [39489/08]

Written Answers — Community Alert Programme: Community Alert Programme (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current and projected position in relation to funding from his Department for the community alert programme, specifically for the northern region — Counties Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal — to year end 2008 and for 2009; his intentions towards Strategy 2007 to 2011; if he will assure all concerned of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach should remove the Minister, Deputy Harney.

Office of the Chief State Solicitor. (12 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not intend to add to what has already been said. On the response the Taoiseach has given to both Deputy Kenny and Deputy Gilmore, and to the latter more particularly on his second line of questioning, would the Taoiseach accept that what has been recorded publicly and referred to seems in direct contradiction to what he states is the most up-to-date position? Surely at the very least...

Office of the Chief State Solicitor. (12 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Why will the Taoiseach not check the position?

Office of the Chief State Solicitor. (12 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This has all the appearance of descending into farce. The question now has descended into which information is the most up to date. It is a sad situation that on the day an innocent victim of gangland murder is buried, the real question is whether the DPP's office is in a position to effectively prosecute in all cases presenting and whether the proposed curtailment in terms of budget...

Official Engagements. (12 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits overseas he has planned for the remainder of 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34897/08]