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Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is it the case that no legislation is required?

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 4 November 2009, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [46692/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 4 November 2009, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [46693/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Offices: Social Welfare Offices (15 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 302: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the catchment area served by the social welfare office in Ballyconnell, County Cavan; the number of people registered as signing-on and dependent on the claimant; the total population of the entire catchment as per the 2006 census; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46996/09]

Written Answers — Registration of Herd Numbers: Registration of Herd Numbers (15 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 363: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 26 May 2009, if a person (details supplied) in County Louth was the registered owner of a herd number prior to 1989; and if so, the process undertaken to transfer the herd number to another person. [46752/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his recent contacts with the British Prime Minister in relation to the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. [44311/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the course of his recent engagements with the British Prime Minister, was the Taoiseach made aware of the content or the text of a letter from the First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, to Mr. Gordon Brown regarding his demand that the issues outstanding in respect of Orange Order parades and other issues should be a precondition for the resolution of the already agreed and funded transfer of...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to two matters related to the response of the Taoiseach. Does the Taoiseach agree that the imperative of the transfer of policing and justice powers from London to Belfast, which as I have already stated has been agreed and to which funding has already been committed, should not face the further obstacle of new preconditions? The proposition by the First Minister that the resolution...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a very brief comment before the Taoiseach responds. It is important to note that today EirGrid placed full-page advertisements in the national press indicating it has made the application for the interconnector from County Cavan to the Border, to link up with Northern Ireland Electricity's corresponding development in counties Armagh and Tyrone. I appeal to the Taoiseach that, if...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Nobody has any objection to the development in principle.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Clearly, the Taoiseach has not informed himself.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Over a 40 year lifespan, it is considered-----

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----by the highest opinion in Europe that it is much more economically viable to take the underground approach-----

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No. The Taoiseach wants to run a particular arrangement and says there is no other way.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is absolute nonsense. My family connections and others will be affected. We are talking here about human and real concerns.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: You cannot ride roughshod over whole communities-----

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There are reasonable alternative proposals as to how-----

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I agree with that.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I strongly object to the ordering of business today, which ultimately is a sham because the Government will state it is providing additional time to address the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill, which provides for the cuts to public service workers' pay. It will do nothing of the kind. The imposition of guillotines in the House for each of the Stages is...