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Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----currently within the service who may not be replaced.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach note that the nurses and midwives Bill has been on the list of promised legislation, as best I can establish, from as far back as 2002? That is a full seven years.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach not accept that there is something seriously amiss within the Department when legislation of this importance can be-----

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----set aside year after year?

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the issue of swine flu?

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly whereby a cohabiting couple are treated as a single household for social welfare eligibility purposes, yet for Revenue Commissioner purposes they are treated as two individuals and may not benefit from each other's tax credits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16139/09]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Closure: Nursing Home Closure (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received petitions and representations from the people of Carlow opposing the closure of a nursing home (details supplied); the action she has taken in response to these representations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16272/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the assistance that can be given towards the cost and availability of transport for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who has to travel monthly by bus to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, for treatment on a non-malignant brain tumour and who has been informed that the monthly visits will have to continue indefinitely. [16344/09]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to provide accommodation for the 319 people with an intellectual disability currently living in psychiatric hospitals, despite stated policy that this is not appropriate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16558/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 344: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly whereby a cohabiting couple are treated as a single household for social welfare eligibility purposes, yet for Revenue Commissioner purposes they are treated as two individuals and may not benefit from each other's tax credits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. ...

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 374: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason for the delay in the allocation to local authorities of funding for the housing adaptation grant and the mobility aid grant; if his attention has been drawn to the need for the allocation to be made without further delay in view of the fact that local authorities are not permitted to carry out...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (28 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 411: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the hardship caused to farmers following his decision to defer the full payment of grants allocated under the farm waste management scheme and in particular the case of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; if he will review this case with a view to making a speedier payment in...

Departmental Programmes. (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach on which cross-departmental teams and interdepartmental committees his Department is represented; the purpose of each; the regularity with which they meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13190/09]

Departmental Staff. (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if it is intended to retain the communications unit within his Department. [16420/09]

Departmental Staff. (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I did not hear the Taoiseach's substantive reply to these questions and I apologise if he has already answered and I am repeating. Last November I asked the Taoiseach about the then proposed putting to tender of the work of the communications unit or a part of its work. He indicated that the tendering process was then in train, that he would be subsequently advised of the result of the...

Departmental Staff. (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On a point of clarification, do I take it from that information that the tendering process did not proceed, that the Taoiseach has not allowed access to the service to external interests and that it remains an in-house provision?

Official Engagements. (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the Special EU-US Summit in Prague. [16421/09]

Official Engagements. (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the June 2009 European Council meeting. [16422/09]

Official Engagements. (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach the international official visits he plans for the remainder of 2009. [16423/09]

Official Engagements. (29 Apr 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the EU Council meeting in June address the so-called guarantees which the Taoiseach and his Government indicated have been won in principle? Will those guarantees be addressed at the EU Council meeting? Can the Taoiseach advise what stage these guarantees have reached? Are they in draft form? Have they moved forward from principles to actual texts? Is he prepared to publish those...