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- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of the responsibility to help to bring us out of these financial difficulties is creating a serious situation for the poorest people. It amounts to a crucifixion of the poorest in Irish society today and is an absolute disgrace. Sinn Féin absolutely and wholly opposes both the ordering and passage of this disgraceful legislation.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On behalf of the Sinn Féin Deputies, I also object to the ordering of this legislation to be taken without debate. In the context of all we have had to face last week and this week in this House, one would need to think very carefully about a Bill entitled "Appropriation". That is exactly what the Government is doing from the poorest and least well off in our society today. This...
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Concessions will not make this Bill any more palatable to the hundreds of thousands of public service workers throughout the State, many of whom protested outside the gates of this House last night in greater numbers than admitted by the media. The important thing is that the message was delivered loud and clear. This section of the Irish workforce, including-----
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----our co-workers in this institution, the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Bill before us, which the Government is proposing to guillotine today, is proposing to dig deeper into the pockets of those it already robbed earlier this year, who cannot afford to take this further hit. Shame on the Government.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join with Deputy Kenny in that appeal because this is of enormous importance to those concerned. The focus of the Private Members' business is deserving of the support of all Members of the House. Surely in the last days before the Christmas recess some heart can come into the Government backbenches-----
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----- and we can find sufficient time, even at this late stage to arrest the terrible vista being committed by this Administration on these unfortunate people. Question, "That the proposal for dealing with Private Members' business be agreed to," put and declared carried.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On promised legislation and the Government's intentions on the new term after the Christmas, can the Taoiseach indicate to the House when he intends to move the writ for the Donegal South-West by-election? It cannot have escaped his notice, as it has not that of the wider populace, that a vacancy in the Seanad could be filled almost instantly. It is ridiculous that a Seanad vacancy can be...
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is a valid question on the moving of a writ for a by-election in a constituency where a seat is currently vacant.
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason landlords resident outside the State cannot pay tax on their rental income directly but must rely on their tenant to make the payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47255/09]
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (16 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised concerns at diplomatic and European levels regarding proposals in Uganda to impose life imprisonment or the death penalty for homosexual activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47463/09]
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A Cheann Comhairle, you should stick to the sequence of Opposition voices.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach does not need to be worried.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I say good morning to the Taoiseach. He is welcome, having joined us.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sure he was asleep up to this point.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Over the past several weeks, we have had an example of anti-government. These past few weeks have been a dictatorship from Merrion Street. There were some 17 divisions in the Chamber yesterday. Measures have been rammed through the Camber continually-----
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, because today we are being asked to guillotine four more Bills. This is a ramrod approach.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government has no respect for this Chamber, its Opposition voices or the normal debate that should be part and parcel of the democratic institution of the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Government is pressing ahead with guillotining four more Bills, following on everything it has rammed down the people's throats these past few weeks. It is an outrageous approach. The House will rise...
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a missed opportunity to take these matters without debate or the opportunity to reflect, particularly in the case of No. 27a in respect of the re-appointment of the Ombudsman for Children. It would have been appropriate for Members of the House to have had the opportunity to pay tribute to the Ombudsman for Children, Ms Emily Logan, and the staff at that office. It is unfortunate that...
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Sinn Féin Deputies also object to the imposition of a guillotine on the passage of the Forestry (Amendment) Bill 2009, as we will in each of the others where the Government is seeking to have the debate on the measures contained in them curtailed. I also wish to reflect that it is objectionable to my party that the ordering of each of these Bills, including the Forestry (Amendment) Bill...
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Whatever about the resumption date proposed in January it is important to note that many Members here on all sides of the House will be back working on committee business on 13 January in any event. I am aware Deputy O'Rourke, who has taken the initiative with the children's referendum committee, will be working here the week prior to the proposition and I see no reason why everybody cannot...