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Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Which Cabinet committee deals with banking, the financial institutions, the State guarantee and NAMA? Would the Taoiseach accept that given the huge sums of public money poured into the financial institutions, it is not unreasonable for people to believe he who pays the piper should call the tune? We have learned, however, that the Minister for Finance approved the top-up to the pension...

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach has only referred to two of the three questions in his reply and they hardly measure up as replies, with all respect to him. A Cabinet committee on economic renewal does not address the concerns I have expressed in regard to the existing terrible reality of unemployment in our economy and the growing threat that daily presents. I am not convinced this demonstrates any resolve...

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With regard to children, we want to see the referendum on children's rights brought forward in the current year. I was a member of the committee that brought forward the report and recommendations to Government of a specific wording that we would be all be willing to row in behind and urge endorsement of by the electorate. I again ask about the issue of the referenda. The Taoiseach was...

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----the Minister would engage on a continuous basis. On the one hand, he is responsible for, hopefully, bringing about a sea change in terms of the conduct and governance of the financial institutions but, on the other, we only discovered by a slow extraction, worse than any dentist's operation, the information that he had actually approved Mr. Boucher's €1.5 million pension top-up. I...

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no specific Cabinet committee in that area.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yesterday, I received a letter from the General Office regarding a parliamentary question I had tabled to the Taoiseach requesting him to report on his meeting with representatives of the Catholic religious institutions on 15 April. The letter I received informed me the Taoiseach will not answer the question and it will be referred instead to the Department of Education and Science....

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No Deputy anything, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to know why there is a clear difference of approach in replies to parliamentary questions from the Opposition and from the Government backbenches. This is a serious matter.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is a serious matter for you, a Cheann Comhairle, who is supposed to ensure fair play and equality of treatment for all Deputies.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is also a matter for the Taoiseach and his Department. My inquiry this morning-----

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----found that it was the Taoiseach office's instruction that this would be the response to a Sinn Féin Deputy.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: At the same time a detailed account of the engagement with the religious institutions on 15 April was proffered to Deputy Michael Kennedy. Good luck to him for getting it.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Why is there a difference in response? This is also a matter for the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Ryan, whose party is with this Fianna Fáil Government. This matter must be addressed.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There are not. I am demanding – not asking – that the Ceann Comhairle takes a personal and direct interest-----

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----in ensuring equity of treatment for all elected representatives with no bias for questions posed by Government backbenchers.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will resume my seat when I have finished my point. Will the Taoiseach revisit this parliamentary question? Will he indicate to the House-----

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not appropriate to be dismissed with this sort of nonsense.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Ceann Comhairle keeps telling us that but there is no other way to raise this matter.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no other way but to expose such outrageous conduct.

Patient Support Schemes. (28 Apr 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Andrews, tonight, where is the Minister for Health and Children? On behalf of the Sinn Féin Deputies, including Deputy Arthur Morgan who is present, I join with Deputies and Senators from all parties, not just Opposition parties, who all share in the incredulity and outrage at the exclusion of these 35 cases from the terms of the Lourdes...