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Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to the licensing of health facilities Bill. There is a great degree of distress and anger among patients and relatives of those who are and have been resident at Loughloe House in Athlone, which has now been earmarked for closure by the HSE. A HIQA report on this facility has not yet been published. It recommends significant changes but, I believe, it does not recommend closure....

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Trade and Innovation if he has met with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Assembly to discuss the potential loss of employment in the Border region; if there will be cross-border initiatives to relieve the pressures that mass unemployment in the region would cause; his views on whether the Border area can afford not to have joined up...

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would have preferred if Question No. 90 had been taken with Question No. 47. I am disappointed with the Minster's reply. The fact that he indicated he has had only three telephonic link-ups with his counterpart in the Assembly, Ms Arlene Foster, MLA, does not demonstrate the necessary focus on the very serious situation that has unfolded in the Border counties, specifically, Cavan and...

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We cannot divorce ourselves from the lead-in situation to the announcement of 900 redundancies in Quinn Insurance Limited last Friday week. Real and substantial questions must be put in respect of the decisions taken by the Financial Regulator. While I acknowledge the independence of his office, the Financial Regulator must be accountable in some way and there must be some basis by which...

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The fact of the matter is that when this announcement was made the Government failed to properly address what it could do in real and specific terms to save these jobs. It is all very well to refer to education and re-training afterwards. For heaven's sake, do not utter "taskforce" across this Chamber to me because I will surely take ill. The fact is the Government has yet to demonstrate...

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, there is not.

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is what I put to the Minister when I met him personally-----

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and I have repeated the proposal to all his ministerial colleagues. The Minister has never explained why he could not take this course of action.

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are not suggesting interference.

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: At the meeting last night-----

Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What we need is the restoration of access to all relevant areas.

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the consequences of job losses at a company (details supplied) in the Border region in terms of education and re-training opportunities and employment prospects; if unemployment, education and training services will be capable of dealing with an upsurge in unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Dublin-Monaghan Bombings: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (12 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he or his Department still maintains contact with Justice for the Forgotten; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14695/10]

Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Sinn Féin has no objection to taking this Bill today. Indeed, we look forward to the national conference centre proving to be the success we all wish it to be at the heart of the city. However, before agreeing to the Order of Business, will the Government accommodate an opportunity for statements and a question and answer session with the Minister for Finance with regard to the European...

Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----in the course of the debates on the two referenda on the Lisbon treaty. Here we are-----

Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and now we must face up to it. It is high time that we did.

Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking the Tánaiste to accommodate a proper opportunity in the House to address this very serious and potentially dangerous matter for the fiscal sovereignty of this State.

Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Somewhat on the same issue-----

Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No embellishments here.

Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to ask the Tánaiste, in her Tory blue this morning,-----