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Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in care who have had multiple changes of social work during each of the past five years. [28042/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps taken by the Health Service Executive to establish a rapid response system across the State, that covers both sea and airports; the steps taken to establish a two-way information and response system in cooperation with authorities in the North of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28043/10]

Written Answers — Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the options available for persons under 18 years of age needing residential treatment for eating disorders. [28497/10]

Written Answers — Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to make residential treatment for eating disorders available in the State to public patients under the age of 18 years. [28498/10]

Written Answers — HIV Infection: HIV Infection (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 315: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of new cases of HIV diagnosed in each of the past five years, in each local health office area. [28499/10]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 486: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the proposed senior citizens units on the site of the Church of Precious Blood, Cabra west, Dublin 7. [27751/10]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 490: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if affordable housing purchasers are required to maintain the property as their principal residence for the full 20 years after purchasing; the penalties that apply if the owner rents out the property during the first 20 years; his plans to relax the requirements in view of present economic conditions which...

Written Answers — Local Authority Loans: Local Authority Loans (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 520: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding proposals to allow existing local authority mortgage holders to re-mortgage without triggering the claw back; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28501/10]

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 560: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 11 March 2010, when the information requested will be supplied. [28502/10]

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (29 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 561: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 11 March 2010, when the information requested will be supplied. [28503/10]

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department pays allowances to former taoisigh to maintain personal assistants; the former taoisigh to whom such allowances are or have been paid; the amount per annum of each allowance; the cost of the allowance in 2010; the cost since their introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the facilities and allowances provided by his Department to former taoisigh; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the Taoiseach's response he indicated that former taoisigh are entitled to the service of two secretarial assistants for five years following the completion of their terms of office as Taoiseach and also to have one secretarial assistant thereafter for whatever length of time for their lifetime. Is it the case that if they also continue to be serving Members of the Dáil - each of us as...

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, I am asking the Taoiseach if he is aware that a sum of €114,000 was allocated for the provision of the additional secretarial assistants because the former Taoiseach was in that post. Is he aware that a sum in excess of €300,000 has been claimed by the former Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, since the introduction of the scheme? Is he aware that over the past decade the former...

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----includes the provision of a car and Garda driver. Whether that applies or is utilised in all cases I cannot say. Will the Taoiseach indicate how he feels about this scheme at this point in time, against the fact that there have been very considerable cutbacks in terms of the salaries and expenses of all sitting Members of the current Dáil and that this scheme has held in place and is...

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not know where the Taoiseach encountered that view. I have at all times spoken about the provision of two secretarial assistants, which is the entitlement from the 2001 scheme. If anybody is putting a spin on this issue, it is the Taoiseach. I am trying to deal with the facts of this scheme, which was introduced by a former Taoiseach and, as it happens, applies to all former taoisigh,...

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am not making a speech. I am putting a question and the Ceann Comhairle's comfort with it is neither here nor there.

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I posed a parliamentary question and received a response which revealed details of the issue. I am now asking the Taoiseach how he views the issue and whether he believes it merits an immediate review given our current circumstances, the serious cutbacks that have already been imposed on so many sectors of Irish society and the further cutbacks pending in budget 2011. I urge him to revisit...

Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the constitutional referenda he intends to hold during the remainder of the current Dáil [23056/10]

Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have had to press repeatedly to get clarity as to the Government's intentions regarding the proposal put forward by an all-party Oireachtas committee on a referendum to enshrine children's rights in the Constitution. This has taken many forms in the House in recent months, including a Private Members' motion tabled jointly by the Labour Party and Sinn Féin. There is a continuous and...