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Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This concerns special advisers and how the Taoiseach can justify it. Today, four weeks' notice of industrial action has been served on the HSE by porters, cleaners and security staff within hospital sites across the city. Are these the advisers who advised in respect of the approach to engagement with the public service unions, where ultimately the talks were collapsed and innovative,...

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: From the programme manager receiving a salary in excess of €200,000 and a senior political adviser receiving almost €200,000, does the Taoiseach accept that this focus would not happen except for the times we are in and the Government has had no hesitation in surgically applying a scalpel to the interests of ordinary low to middle income earners within the public service? In fact, it is...

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is the key and critical issue because it has been applied in so many areas with devastating consequences for so many ordinary workers yet a situation maintains in the Department of the Taoiseach where a number of special advisers earn such substantial salaries. Can the Taoiseach advise the House if there is still an arrangement between the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department...

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----care in the home of elderly and disabled people, in regard to which the Government had no care in the world. We offer no apology for stating that if the Government is prepared to wear that and to watch the suffering as a consequence of its actions then other areas, including the remuneration of special advisers in his Department and across all other Departments, need to be addressed.

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There are many of them.

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I heard the Taoiseach's response in regard to the special adviser from his Department and the Department of Health and Children being directly involved in reform exercises. People in my constituency - the Minister, my colleague from the constituency is sitting beside the Taoiseach - do not, as does the Taoiseach, view this as reform. What has happened in regard to the acute hospital network...

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ------and many other communities throughout the country is far from reform.

Legislative Programme. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach his legislative priorities for the remaining period of the 30th Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3467/10]

Legislative Programme. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The revised programme for Government as agreed between the Taoiseach and the leader of the Green Party, or both parties together, contains commitments across several areas for new legislation. None of that promised legislation has yet been published. None appear in the programme of legislation for the current term. What arrangements exist between the Taoiseach and the leader of the Green...

Legislative Programme. (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will pass on any further supplementary questions.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Ar son Teachtaí agus Seanadóir Shinn Féin, agus ar mo shon féin, cuirim chomhbhrón chuig May agus chuig clann, cairde agus comhleacaithe Thomás Mac Giolla, iar-uachtarán Shinn Féinn agus iar-Theachta Dála. On behalf of Sinn Féin I extend sympathy to May Mhic Giolla and the bereaved family, friends and colleagues of the late Tomás Mac Giolla, former president of Sinn Féin from...

Order of Business (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same issue, there are now no less than three by-elections pending. In addition, there is a commitment - although it may be one with a small "c" - to hold a referendum on children's rights, as well as the signalled direct election of a mayor of the city of Dublin. In total, therefore, there are five engagements with the electorate pending. Is there any intent on the Taoiseach's part...

Order of Business (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----which might also accommodate a referendum on children's rights and the election of a mayor of the city of Dublin? In the context of the tenuous arrangement that Fianna Fáil has with the Green Party in regard to the revised programme for Government, I asked the Taoiseach earlier and ask him now again about the signalled intent to introduce measures to assist families that are...

Order of Business (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My question relates to promised legislation, which is what I understand the Order of Business is about. The revised programme for Government outlined measures such as reduced interest rates, longer maturity dates, the rolling up of outstanding interest and so on-----

Order of Business (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What stage is the Government at in its preparations for the introduction of the necessary legislation or the facilitation of the roll-out of the commitments contained in the revised programme for Government given that every day of the week we are seeing more and more people in severe difficulties in regard to their mortgage payments?

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the changes that she will implement in relation to the policy of the Industrial Development Authority regarding the attraction of investment and jobs to certain counties and regions; the criteria that will be attached to the policy in respect of the way in which a county will be prioritised for attracting...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the labour market activation fund will issue its calls for proposals; the length of time interested parties will have to express interest; if she is satisfied that notice of the call for proposals through the Government E-tenders website and the national press will be sufficient; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 21 January 2010, the reasons the staff complement of the National Consumer Agency has fallen by a third from 62 to 42 and the Competition Authority by a fifth from 54 to 43 when staff levels in other State agencies in her Department have either increased or had...

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses, both individuals and companies, that notified the Revenue Commissioners that they had ceased trading and operations due to business failure or trading conditions in each year 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and in January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11393/10]

Written Answers — Sponsorship of Sporting Events: Sponsorship of Sporting Events (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the work and progress of the working group on sports sponsorship by the alcohol industry; when she expects to receive a report and recommendations from the group on the phasing out of alcohol sponsorship of sporting events; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11136/10]