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European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: May I have a further opportunity to contribute?

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They had not all ratified it. Many of them only ratified after we made our decision.

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate that. I welcome the fact we have had this first exchange post the European summit without trading insults.

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would wish that this is the way the debate on this matter would proceed over the period ahead. I want to refer to three points the Taoiseach made in the course of his contribution and to ask him to consider them. He made the point with regard to voting "Yes" to a Lisbon treaty "we have all signed up to" as it was put. Does he accept we have not done so? The Irish people have not signed...

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach should not put words in my mouth.

European Council Meetings. (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach can be guaranteed of that.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Forgive me, a Cheann Comhairle. I was dealing with an application for membership.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach will be glad to hear we rejected it.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach will not get the application either. We also object to the proposition that a guillotine apply to the passage of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009. As has been already indicated by Deputy O'Sullivan, the legislation contains a new element which warrants independent address. The idea of a guillotine applying to this legislation is unacceptable, as is the series of...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has sprung these amendments on the Dáil. They only appeared yesterday on the publication of Report Stage. They amount to a separate Bill and should have had a separate explanatory memorandum. We should have been given the opportunity to properly discuss and debate the measures involved that clearly affect not only the Mental Health Act 2001, but all the way through to 2009....

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am only saying he is not infallible, like the Ceann Comhairle and myself.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On a point of clarification -----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is not how the Chair applied the rule with regard to Deputy Reilly. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Chair indicated we have a choice procedurally, but he did not indicate there is a time constraint. There is a time constraint and I presume it holds and the guillotine applies. Therefore the option between Committee Stage or proceeding as we are is not as agreeable as the Ceann Comhairle indicated. We have one hour left to conclude all our deliberations on this Bill, with all the...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is there an agency or entity already performing these roles? Are such agencies registered and, if so, with whom do such bodies register? If these agencies are in situ, who is being recruited to perform these roles? We are discussing externally assisted involuntary admissions by those not directly employed by the HSE or members of the Garda. Such people operate in the private sector. This...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister referred to PNA personnel. The implication of what I heard him say is that people who would be recruited to perform these roles and responsibilities would have, at least, the standard of knowledge and training required of professionals within the psychiatric services. That would be fine, but nothing in the Bill makes it a statutory requirement. Guidelines are not enough....

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to make a quick point.

Written Answers — Housing Finance Agency: Housing Finance Agency (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 61: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide details of the recent meetings of the board of the Housing Finance Agency; if it will pass on the European Central Bank Interest rate cut of 25% to local authority mortgage holders; and the responses it has to ECB rate changes. [25105/09]

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 63: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the high number of children who are taken into the care system as a result of housing difficulties; and his plans to hold discussions with the Department of Health and Children to provide a solution to this problem and provide accommodation for children and prevent them from...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) will be moved from St. Ita's Hospital, Portrane to St. Vincent's Hospital in Fairview, Dublin. [25271/09]