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Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, this is about a comparison of the Department's approach to two signalled Bills in the Government programme: one that affects very directly ordinary medical card holders and another that is intended to save money on drugs costs and for which there is no date for publication-----

Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and no intention yet to even fast-track or bring forward that. Will the Taoiseach indicate the position in regard to both the prescription charges-----

Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----Bill and the reference pricing for drugs Bill?

Written Answers — Central Statistics Office: Central Statistics Office (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 112: To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 23 February 2010, the reason the Central Statistics Office has not been represented by any other State body at EU or UN meetings in relation to the collection of statistics in view of the fact that in the National Disability Authority's Operational Research Plan 2007 to 2009 it is stated on page 11 that it has...

Written Answers — Business Closures: Business Closures (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses, both individuals and companies, across all sectors that have advised the Revenue Commissioners that they have ceased trading in each of the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10396/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive surgery; and if this will be expedited. [10000/10]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of land the Health Service Executive plans to sell off from the St. Conal's Hospital campus in Letterkenny, County Donegal; and if the money raised from the sale will be ringfenced for mental health services in Donegal. [10152/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Lifford Community Hospital and the Rock Hospital in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, are earmarked for closure; and the way it will affect the staff at both hospitals if these closures take place. [10153/10]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the British Prime Minister's apology for the child migrants programme, which sent 15,000 children between the ages of three to 14 years to Commonwealth countries where many of them were abused and forced into slave labour; if he has information on the number of these children were born here; and if he...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (2 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 395: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received a report from Dublin City Council on the safety issues which led to the council evacuating its tenants from apartments (details supplied) in Dublin 13; if not, if he will request same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9895/10]

Public Procurement Policy. (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if a corporate procurement plan is in place in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3463/10]

Public Procurement Policy. (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the previous occasion that these questions were addressed I asked the Taoiseach whether a policy was in place or would be put in place that would favour the allocation of contracts for the provision of goods or services from Irish manufacturers where possible. In his reply, the Taoiseach indicated, as he repeated today, that for goods and services over a particular value we are obliged to...

Public Procurement Policy. (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I acknowledge that the Taoiseach's reply supports that. I wish to follow on from what Deputy Kenny requested. Perhaps an exercise should be undertaken at this point to evaluate the success of what the Taoiseach has just read into the record. I have no doubt we are all on the same page in what we want to achieve in terms of small and medium enterprises. It is in all our interests that we...

Public Procurement Policy. (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about an evaluation review?

Tribunals of Inquiry. (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if there is a projected total and final cost to his Department of the Moriarty tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3464/10]

Tribunals of Inquiry. (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Again, when Members last addressed these questions in November, I made reference to the fact that the previous July, it had been indicated at the Committee of Public Accounts that the Moriarty tribunal had paid €8.5 million each to two barristers working in the tribunal. I described such payments as an obscenity and asked the Taoiseach the reason that the reduction in fees signalled in...

Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No.

Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Sinn Féin Members do not agree to taking this motion, which seeks approval for the dissolution of the NESF without debate. It is not acceptable, as this matter should be debated. When one considers it against the backdrop of the Government having already abolished the Combat Poverty Agency at a time in which more and more people are being driven into poverty, it would appear that the...

Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is that an offer of a debate?

Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is what the Taoiseach stated.