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Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Tánaiste explain why she refused to impart that information and can she indicate how many of the jobs there will be saved as a result of any effort on her part or by the Government?

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Government publish them? Will it share the heads of the Bill?

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about S.R. Technics?

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not know. That is why I asked the question.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I know the questions but we are not getting the answers.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste has refused to impart the information.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am telling the Ceann Comhairle that I do not know.

Cystic Fibrosis: Motion (9 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Go raibh maith agat. Ar dtús, ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le Páirtí an Lucht Oibre as am cainte a thabhairt dom. I thank the Labour Party for the opportunity to participate in this debate. What happened in the Dáil this week raises a fundamental question about ministerial responsibility, health policy and the strategic management of our health service. Within the space of...

Freedom of Information. (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Information Commissioner has called for all new State bodies to come under the ambit of the Freedom of Information Act. Will this apply to the national asset management agency? Is it the intention of the Taoiseach that NAMA would come under the Freedom of Information Act in line with the Information Commissioner's recommendation that all State bodies would do so on their establishment?

Freedom of Information. (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With regard to another point the Information Commissioner has highlighted, namely, the poor record provision by a number of bodies that come under FOI, she instanced in particular Fingal County Council and its records in regard to Thornton Hall. Has the Department of the Taoiseach any specific role in ensuring record retention and information protection in advance of, or in the likelihood...

Freedom of Information. (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With regard to the Taoiseach's first reply, if, as he indicated, he has an uncertainty as to his Department's role, will he undertake to establish if there is any responsible party or Department in regard to the information preservation which I have referred to as being highlighted by the Information Commissioner? As I said, she has instanced bad practice. What Department, if any, will take...

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Inclusion, Children and Integration last met. [9856/09]

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committees on which he sits. [13189/09]

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can the Taoiseach clarify whether the Cabinet committee on social inclusion, children and integration has replaced what I had understood to be the Cabinet committee on social inclusion and drugs? When did such a change take place if that is the case? If it is the case, is there a separate Cabinet committee that now has responsibility for addressing the issue of drugs? Has the frequency of...

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I understand. I do not seek access to the detail of what the committees would discuss. However, the issue is of such import and to give us a sense of the work of these committees, would the Taoiseach indicate if it has addressed the matter at all?

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I seek clarification. If I have missed out on a change of Cabinet committee title then it is my failure. I was genuinely of the view that heretofore we had been referring to the Cabinet committee on social inclusion and drugs. At what point was this changed? Are the issues regarding drugs being addressed in a different and newly designated committee?...

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: All in good time.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to address the following matter of national importance requiring urgent consideration, namely, the growing crisis in our public health services as a result of disastrous Government policy and savage cutbacks, including the loss of hundreds of front-line posts, thereby affecting the care of patients; the closure of wards in two major...

Appointment of Ministers of State (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I also wish to join with other voices in the Dáil in extending congratulations to the newly-appointed Ministers of State, Deputies Áine Brady and Calleary. I wish them both the very best in their new positions. However, the critical news that all Members await is not the appointment of new Ministers of State or the reappointment of others. It pertains to a required new policy direction...

Appointment of Ministers of State (22 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a brief comment on the Social Welfare Bill at this point. Against that backdrop-----