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Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (18 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he has decided to deny naturalisation to applicants who fulfil all the statutory criteria but have lost their employment and been forced to avail of social welfare, as a result of the economic downturn and through no fault of their own; if he will reconsider this policy at least in respect of those applicants...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (18 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding for community development programmes outside RAPID areas in County Donegal will be cut; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24231/09]

Cabinet Sub-committees. (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet sub-committee on climate change has met. [20717/09]

Cabinet Sub-committees. (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the membership of the Cabinet sub-committee on health; the number of times it has met since June 2007. [20718/09]

Cabinet Sub-committees. (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach advise us of the membership of the Cabinet sub-committee on climate change? For example, is the Minister for Transport a member of that sub-committee? Given that public transport is a matter of concern, not only for those of us who would like to see more of it, does increased public transport not discourage the use of cars and reduce carbon emissions? I expect the...

Cabinet Sub-committees. (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would this matter not be of concern to the Cabinet sub-committee on climate change given the serious and deleterious side-effects of that decision not only in terms of transport but also of carbon emissions?

Cabinet Sub-committees. (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sorry that the Taoiseach lumped the question about the sub-committee on health with the others on climate change. His reply was unclear. Did he say that since the general election of June 2007 there had been 13 meetings of that sub-committee? Is the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children with special responsibility for children a member of that sub-committee?...

Cabinet Sub-committees. (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would these not also be valid reasons for that committee, or whichever one is responsible, to oversee child care provision in terms of State support-----

Cabinet Sub-committees. (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would such a meeting be called to address these matters with some urgency?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Taoiseach for his responses to both sets of questions. Is it again the case that the Cabinet sub-committee on health, which also takes in responsibility for children, has met on 13 occasions since June 2007? Is the Taoiseach in a position to indicate the frequency of those meetings over the course of recent months as report after report unfolded regarding the very serious...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the sub-committee address policy?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In adding to the appeal, would the Taoiseach take on board that one of the reasons I particularly focused in on the Minister for Transport was because of recent decisions announced by Bus Éireann? The fact is there to be established if the Taoiseach checks with the Minister. He refuses to answer questions here on the public transport service.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It happens to be the case that Members of this House are compelled to see that this matter is addressed by whatever limited means are open to us.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is of huge importance-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----in regard, presumably, to the business the Cabinet sub-committee on climate change is supposed to address.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Last Thursday, when the Taoiseach was not here, we had a proposition to apply a guillotine to the Broadcasting Bill and the Companies (Amendment) Bill. Representatives of the three Opposition parties appealed to the Tánaiste and the Chief Whip not to apply a guillotine because we did not have confidence that the Government had accurately measured the time required. Nevertheless, despite...

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It cannot even govern the proposition-----

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of ordering business on any given day. Yet here we are again with guillotine after guillotine. We are being asked to rubber-stamp the serious measures contained in the Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. The Government got it wrong last Thursday about the Broadcasting Bill and the Companies (Amendment) Bill and it has it wrong again today about the Financial Measures...

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was explained repeatedly.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is a scandalous situation applying to child protection and family support services within the State, as revealed in an article in The Irish Examiner last week, in which internal HSE documents were published citing a litany of inadequate supports, including a situation in which children could have been at risk. The issue of children at risk is one of the most serious and one with which...