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Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to speak on the same matter, namely, the imposition of the guillotine. Where previously it was a feature in the run-up to recesses both prior to the summer and Christmas, in the past year the guillotine has been employed quite freely at various times throughout each of the sessions. It is completely unnecessary. As recent experiences will show, some legislation passes through the...

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want the Taoiseach to explain how he has apportioned-----

Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On exactly the same point, I appeal to the Taoiseach and the Government team to heed the Opposition's appeal. The guillotine is totally unnecessary. Question, "That the proposal for dealing with No. 22 be agreed to", put and declared carried.

Tourism Industry: Motion (22 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support the Labour Party motion, which covers many of the issues at the heart of the current crisis facing the tourism sector. Tourism is of major value to the Irish economy but is capable of greater development as an indigenous growth area. While the priority is to maintain what we have built up, we must look to the future. Many of the current problems faced by the tourism industry are...

Written Answers — Redress Schemes: Redress Schemes (22 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to put in place a supplementary Lourdes hospital redress scheme to properly acknowledge and appropriately respond to the needs of the 35 cases not included under the terms of the original redress scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25960/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (22 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the membership and terms of reference of the working group to develop a national strategy for the provision of rehabilitation services and when it is expected to report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27079/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if long-term residential or community care will be made available in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26748/10]

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the commemorative programme envisaged as arising out of his speech to the Institute for British-Irish Studies in UCD on 20 May 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24333/10]

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he has had with trade unions and other non governmental organisations regarding the promised establishment of the All Ireland Consultative Civic Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24334/10]

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had discussions with the British Prime Minister on the Saville Report on Bloody Sunday; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26498/10]

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As has been indicated, the coming decade from now until 2020 certainly could be regarded as a decade of many historic milestones, including a series of centenaries. I refer to the centenaries of the aforementioned great lockout in 2013, the Easter Rising in 2016, the Sinn Féin general election victory in 2018 and the first meeting of Dáil Éireann in 2019. These are all important...

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a question. Moreover, as we enter this decade of centenaries that ends in 2020, which will mark the centenary of the partition Act that divided our country, would it not be appropriate for the Government to consider preparing a Green Paper on Irish unity? Again, in the spirit of what I have already indicated, this would be an appropriate contribution. I refer to planning in a...

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----will represent for all the people who share this island today. Does the Taoiseach agree that addressing Irish unity over the course of these centenaries and in advance of the centenary of the first Dáil threatens no section of the people on the island of Ireland and does not in any way take from the agreements that have been entered into, namely, the Good Friday Agreement, the St....

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To take up from the Taoiseach's response, I would have thought that the questions and the manner in which I posed them reflected some of the points indicated in his response. The point at which we disagree is that there is no interrelationship and the Taoiseach spoke of not being intertwined. I believe they offer opportunity. That is the point; that they are not moments in time of...

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a question. I believe that this decade of centenaries offers such an opportunity. I invite the Taoiseach again to reconsider same. The Taoiseach responded earlier to the question on the consultative civic forum. I would welcome progress in that regard. As a member of the North-South Parliamentary Forum working group I record my appreciation of the efforts of the Ceann Comhairle, the...

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach not raise the Dublin and Monaghan bombing motion with the British Prime Minister today? Surely that is a straightforward question?

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That was a reasonable expectation when we supported the all-party motion in the House two years ago. I regret that the Taoiseach has never raised the matter with the British Prime Minister since. It defies credulity. It is an absolute scandal if on the one hand-----

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----the Taoiseach will attend the meeting to address worthy issues such as the Saville report on the events in Derry in 1972 but he will not address the terrible atrocities that were visited on this city and my home town two years later in 1974. It defies understanding.

Northern Ireland Issues (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I again appeal to the Taoiseach to raise this matter with the British Prime Minister today and continue to do so until we realise the hope and expectation of the motion agreed in July 2008.

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed to. I seek clarification again. I hope that having raised the matter yesterday, the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills will have given further consideration to my request for time to be provided between now and the summer recess in order for the House to address the serious matter of the concerns arising out of both the junior and leaving certificate...