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Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the numbers of asylum applicants and others who were deported from the State during the week beginning 1 March 2010; their country of birth; the locations to which they were transported out of here; the locations at which they resided here; the number of those deported that left a husband or wife or partner or children...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons deported from this State during the week beginning 1 March 2010 who had been given access to a judicial review process prior to their forced departure; the number who did not have this; the position regarding entitlement to same for asylum seekers generally; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — European Year of Volunteering: European Year of Volunteering (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 284: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps he will take to support the European Year of Volunteering 2011; if he will establish a committee to oversee the year; the level of funding he will provide to support activities during the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11166/10]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (9 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 369: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding project Kelvin which was to have been completed by end of 2009; the stage of its development; the expected completion date and the extent of its coverage by county, north and south of the Border; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11094/10]

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the OECD Report on public service reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11524/10]

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Cuts in staffing, embargoes on recruitment, pay cuts, cuts in services across the board, none of these equates with public service reform yet if one were to ask the wider public to say what is the Government position on public services, those are the replies one would receive. It appears that the Government has no strategy on so-called public service reform and that its actions are all...

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are certainly worried.

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach's response makes the claim that a strategy is in place. We do not know what that strategy is, however, because the Taoiseach has not shared it with us. Everything he has done runs totally contrary to the notion he has a strategy in place. The exercise of governance of the public services has had a direct effect on services. The Taoiseach claims he tried to avoid a...

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We did.

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We shared our document with the Government

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We set out a real alternative-----

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and we are not afraid to make the difficult decisions.

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not from those who can afford to pay.

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not from those who can afford to pay more tax.

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We believe in creating work by stimulating the economy.

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, you did not.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of local and national importance, namely, the implications for patients of the fact that more than 57,000 X-rays taken at Tallaght hospital were not reviewed by a consultant radiologist; and the need for an urgent review of management and supervision of consultants throughout the hospital network arising from this...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach indicate if there will be an opportunity for the House to address the scandalous situation vis-À-vis the 57,000 X-rays at Tallaght hospital? When will the Minister for Health and Children present before this Chamber, or a Minister of State in her Department in her absence, take the opportunity to address this issue substantively in this House? There are many serious...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach intervene? It is well within his gift, given the importance and seriousness of the matter, to intervene to accommodate an opportunity for it. I do not know when the Minister is due to return to Ireland. I realise she is currently out of the country but that should not prevent the House addressing this matter from an informed and definitely focused basis. Will the...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have tabled a private notice question. Will the Ceann Comhairle clarify if he would be prepared to accommodate that request?