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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 495: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of the various offices of her Department that are involved in assessing habitual residence and the specific roles they play in the process. [4902/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 496: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of Irish, British, EU 13, new member state and non-EEA citizens refused a payment based on failure to satisfy the habitual residence condition by citizenship category in each year since 2004 to date in 2010. [4903/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 497: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons, whether Irish, British, EU13, new member states and non-EEA states, who have applied for a social welfare payment; and the number refused a social welfare payment based on the habitual residence condition in each local social welfare office since the habitual residence condition was introduced. [4904/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Records: Departmental Records (2 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 521: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the percentage of applications for social welfare payment that were refused on first instance for failure to satisfy the habitual residence condition but subsequently granted on appeal, for Irish citizens, British citizens, EU13, new member states and non-EU citizens, by citizenship category and by year since 2004 to date in...

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had since 1 January 2010 with the British Prime Minister and the First and Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland regarding the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and the St. Andrew's Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1241/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach the further action he proposes to take on foot of the Barron reports, the Oireachtas justice committee sub-committee reports, the McEntee Report and the Oireachtas resolution regarding the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of May 1974 and other fatal attacks here involving collusion between British state forces and loyalist paramilitaries; and if he will make a...

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Having played our part in the direct engagement with the republican base not only in this State but throughout the island of Ireland in winning support for new policing arrangements in the North of Ireland and a new acceptance of changed policing structures in that part of our island, we share very much in the frustration of so many at the passage of time since the agreement was reached at...

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Very briefly——

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Aside from the intense focus of the very recent past and following a hopefully successful conclusion to this process, will the Taoiseach give an undertaking to the House to raise matters of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the wider matter of collusion and the Pat Finucane murder to which the Taoiseach did not refer in his reply? His family and those who campaigned for justice in his name...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to the fact there is no inspection of services for people with intellectual disability and that a HSE report is expected to reveal that some 4,200 people with intellectual disability are currently housed within long-outdated, inappropriate conditions——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, it is leading exactly to that. There are still some 300 people with intellectual disability inappropriately placed in psychiatric facilities across this State. What action is the Taoiseach considering against all of these very serious matters? Will he expedite the taking of the licensing of health facilities Bill, which is promised to address the issue of a mandatory system of...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When will the Taoiseach being forward the licensing of health facilities Bill?

Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will comment on the refusal of the Information Commissioner to allow a freedom of information request to release documents related to two meetings on the night of 29 and 30 September 2008, one involving senior Ministers and officials and another involving senior banking executives. [5100/10]

Written Answers — Commissions of Inquiry: Commissions of Inquiry (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of input he will allow from Members and committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas into the establishment of the terms of reference for the commission of inquiry into the banking crisis; if he will allow a formal procedure of submission from the aforementioned following their review and debate of the two reports commissioned to be...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the right to preschool and primary school access is fully vindicated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5482/10]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional measures she has put in place to ensure that children with disabilities and special needs are provided with the free preschool child care year recently introduced; her views on whether it is anomalous and unjust that while able bodied children can avail of this new service, the lack of appropriate staff precludes...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that all required health and personal social services are made available to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5480/10]

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When she referred her special report, the Ombudsman did not do so with the expectation that we would merely comment on her findings. She definitely expected we would collectively consider her report. That is the critical difference. What is provided for in the Order of Business is comment and statements. It never results in specific action or inter-exchange. It is critically important we...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same body of business, there are two Central Bank Bills listed in the Government's legislative programme. When will the Government afford us the opportunity to address the disastrous failures of the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator? We have a situation where the Comptroller and Auditor General's report clearly indicates the serious inappropriate conduct and failure to...

Child Care Services. (4 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister of State for being present. I also thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this important matter. I was prompted to bring forward the issue by a constituent who is a low-paid worker with four children, including twins under four. My constituent was looking forward to availing of the free preschool year for her twin children beginning in September 2010....