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Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Taoiseach not prepared to give us an indication of an accommodation? Surely he should accept the need for this matter to be addressed.

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can we not seek an accommodation tomorrow?

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach allow this issue to be addressed?

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach encourage the Chief Whip to be positively disposed to such a proposition?

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Sinn Féin Deputies reject absolutely the proposition that a guillotine should be applied to the Finance Bill at any stage, let alone on Report and Final Stages. The situation is that only four amendments from approximately 70 tabled were addressed in yesterday's discussions in the Chamber. There is inadequate time to address the import of all the amendments tabled. I recognise that...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is not a Bill that should be passed through on any nod. This requires full address in this Chamber and that is not being accommodated by the Government's ordering of today's work.

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We must recognise the Ombudsman is a politically independent officer of the State. We must treat seriously matters she refers to the Dáil and Seanad as she has done in this instance. It is only the second time a report of the Ombudsman's office has been rejected by a Department. It is very important that we do not find ourselves in the situation she described in her remarks yesterday,...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have a responsibility to hold the Government to account-----

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is our responsibility-----

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and obligation and we are pressing that this matter be addressed. I agree with Deputy Gilmore that it is beyond understanding why there is such a concerted resistance to having-----

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----the matter substantively addressed in a committee of the-----

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Why does the Ceann Comhairle keep talking over me?

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Surely when I have been called to speak-----

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Ceann Comhairle called me to speak and I presumed in that situation I had the right to address the House.

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have done no such thing.

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have done no such thing. I am asking the Taoiseach to take this issue seriously immediately. There can be no question but that the Government has blocked address of this issue in this Chamber, in the Seanad and in the committee. It is beyond the understanding of any reasonable opinion and should be addressed immediately. What else will put the matter to bed? What else will address the...

Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, that is not the way to deal with this. It should be dealt with in Government time and should be dealt with in committee.

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister of State accept that we are looking at another scandal in our health services? Would the Taoiseach like to revisit his own position on the issue this morning? In my view, he showed scant regard for the cases already addressed, which have led to the loss of one life and the diagnosis of cancer in another case. There are also 14,000 patients who are obviously in great...

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How could that happen? Is there a parallel inquiry or investigation into the number of unopened orthopaedic referral letters and other referral letters from GPs to that hospital or any other hospital? How many consultant radiologists were in Tallaght between 2005 and 2009? How does the Minister of State account for the fact that the former CEO of the hospital told officials from HIQA last...

Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If my voice does not give up on me, Deputy Rabbitte will have to be patient and allow me to finish. The Minister has admitted that she only learned of this scandal on 15 December, and only as a secondary matter in a meeting with the chief executive at Tallaght hospital on another issue. Is the Minister negligent for not inquiring about the number of cases involved when this matter was first...