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Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a joint motion with Sinn Féin.

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the National Vetting Bureau Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20816/10]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department obliges the Health Service Executive to transfer responsibility for separated children from the HSE to her Department when the child turns 18 years. [21021/10]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the specific legal obligations that the Health Service Executive has for transferring separated children who turn 18 years to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform's Reception and Integration Agency direct provision centres. [21019/10]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if immigration and asylum legislation takes precedence over the Child Care Act 1991 in matters concerning separated children, particularly with regards to the provision of an aftercare service to separated children who have turned 18 years. [21020/10]

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the decision to remove drinking water dispensers from Limerick Regional Hospital reflects the Health Service Executive policy or cost-cutting measures as a result of HSE constraints; if this practice has been carried out in other hospitals; if she approves of such practices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20789/10]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of meetings her Minister of State for children has had with the Attorney General's office on the issue of the referendum on children's rights; the outcome of these meetings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20814/10]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of meetings her Minister of State for children has had with other Departments on the issue of the referendum on children's rights; the Departments he has met; the outcome of these meetings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20815/10]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the date on which he will publish the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20817/10]

Written Answers — Courts Service: Courts Service (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to amend reporting in the family law courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20818/10]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (19 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if immigration and asylum legislation takes precedence over the Child Care Act 1991 in matters concerning separated children, particularly with regards to the provision of an after-care service to separated children who have turned 18 years. [21022/10]

Order of Business. (20 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The proposition before us states it relates to parliamentary standards. One would have hoped for strengthening, improvement and enforcement of those standards. I am only picking the discussion up in the exchange, but if what is being suggested has a direct impact on the conduct of business in the House, we cannot let it through on a nod. If anything underscores the need for a full debate,...

Order of Business. (20 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As we know, this is the first anniversary of the publication of the Ryan report. Yesterday evening, the Government passed an amendment congratulating its efforts on child protection, but when will we have an opportunity to evaluate the implementation of the recommendations in the Ryan, Murphy and Monageer reports, as well as the recent report published by the Ombudsman for Children?

Order of Business. (20 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Each and all of these need to be addressed on the floor of the Dáil. Will the Government accommodate an evaluation of progress on these recommendations in the coming week? Will the Minister for Health and Children or the Minister of State with responsibility for children accommodate such an opportunity here on the floor of the Dáil in the coming week?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome this Bill which has been awaited for a very long time. It has been almost a permanent fixture on the list of promised legislation for years. It is ironic that the Bill appears now as the professions of nursing and midwifery in this State go through their worst experience since the 1980s due to the savage cutbacks being imposed on our health services by the Fianna Fáil and Green...

EU Targets (20 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 30 March 2010, in which he stated that in the case of the education and social inclusion targets, further work is needed to be done to reach numerical rates and appropriate indicators respectively and the European Council will return to these at its June meeting, if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (20 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will develop and deliver a millennium development goals action plan in the run up to 2015 as recommended by Dóchas members. [20983/10]

European Council Meetings (25 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the June 2010 meeting of the European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18794/10]

European Council Meetings (25 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Government reconsider its position of support for the proposal from the European Commission that draft national budgets be submitted to Brussels for scrutiny and peer review by other member states? Surely this is a further significant erosion of sovereignty in regard to budgetary and other fiscal matters and only further centralises the institutionalisation of what have heretofore...

European Council Meetings (25 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The second focus of my two-part question concerns why the Government supported so enthusiastically Israeli membership of the OECD. Does the Taoiseach not believe that is a golden opportunity to bring to task on the international stage the outrageous record of the Israeli Government and state?