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Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and there is not an accommodation-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of the most important issue for address at this time and that is the withholding of reports on the care and tragic realities of children in this State over many years.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is a very serious matter. It is compounded by the fact that we as parliamentarians, representatives of the people, are being denied the full information by the Department of Health and Children. The Minister of State with responsibility for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, is present but the Minister with overall responsibility is not present. We are being denied the full facts and...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will finish my sentence - govern the matters concerning health and children in this State. It is an absolute disgrace. We have every right to expect-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----that these matters can be properly addressed on the floor of this House today and nothing less will satisfy.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is not an inter-party political issue, but it is a political issue nevertheless because it can only be addressed by the best performance of politics in learning the lessons of the past. It is essential that we know the detail of the particular reports currently unexposed. It is perhaps irrelevant at this point if, for whatever reason, the identities must be withheld. What matters is...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Why is it that, eight months later, we could not have been advised that in this particular area, there were some 20 reports that were not yet published? That would be part of the information that was clearly sought and up to this point has been withheld but could be so easily shared with everybody today on "Morning Ireland". That points up a major deficiency within the system in terms of...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is unsatisfactory.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I believe the proposition from the Minister to defer addressing all the pressing matters that have been raised here this morning until next Tuesday constitutes a disservice to a process that should commence today. I acknowledge this is a process and Members do not expect immediate and full disclosure of all the facts pertaining to all these cases and reports. However, this process of...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not often the opportunity is available to us, but I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Dempsey, on the finalisation of the details with his Northern counterpart, Conor Murphy, MP, MLA, of the single regime of fines and penalty points, as announced yesterday. This is another outworking of cross-Border co-operation. Is the Minister in a position to advise the House on whether legislation...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is in the ambit of possible legislation.

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The admission by senior HSE assistant national director for children and families, Mr. Phil Garland, on today's "Morning Ireland", later confirmed by the HSE director of integrated services, Ms Laverne McGuinness, at the Committee of Public Accounts, that there are 20 reports on the deaths of children in State care awaiting publication, can only be described as truly shocking. No valid...

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister accept that the Deputies who are participating in the debate this evening are not pressing for the exposure of the names or any other means of identification of the children or families concerned? Will he indicate therefore his agreement to publish all of the reports, given that they must contain the outline of the tragic circumstances that applied in each of these cases of...

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister of State also answer my questions?

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before the Minister of State takes supplementary questions, will he be so good as to answer the questions already asked by me, namely-----

Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----whether any of the reports about which we have spoken was referred either to the Ombudsman for Children, HIQA or the Garda Síochána, and what action the Minister of State has taken in regard to HIQA's report on Ballydowd?

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of Irish citizens refused payment due to failure to satisfy the habitual residency condition in each local social welfare office for each year since 2004. [10935/10]

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the number of political advisers appointed by him; the salaries of each and the cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3465/10]

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the number of political advisers or assistants in addition to the staff of his office appointed by the Attorney General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3466/10]

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In a time when the Taoiseach and his colleagues are constantly urging belt-tightening, does he believe it would be appropriate to undertake a review of the number of advisers in his Department? Their numbers are over and above the existing staffing complement of the Department. Does he believe it would be appropriate to review the excessive salaries paid to them that range between three to...