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Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We knew the Minister was not seriously considering bringing this down to zero anytime soon and, sadly, we will not hold our breath with regard to her or her successors once this is passed.

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Once it is passed, the temptation will be to keep it in place and to build on what has been achieved for the public coffers. It merits repeating that it is often the case with regard to the most unpalatable proposals for the health sector that the Government is very happy to have the Minister carry the can individually. She is the line Minister and carries that responsibility at Cabinet but...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, line 32, after "other" to insert "lesser". I am pressing the amendment.

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While appreciating the shortness of time, I support the three amendments tabled in the names of Deputies Jan O'Sullivan and Reilly. In the Bill, the Minister specifies two categories of people who will be exempt from prescription charges, namely, children in care and people in receipt of methadone on prescription. Obviously, I support those exemptions as I wish to see everyone exempt....

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will it always be small?

Cystic Fibrosis Services: Statements (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is almost unbelievable that yet again we have to raise as a matter of urgency the desperate plight of cystic fibrosis sufferers in Ireland. It is disgraceful that we can only give voice to their urgent need some 35 minutes to midnight in the dying hours of this Dáil session. There are fewer than 2,000 cystic fibrosis sufferers in this country yet they suffer from a desperately serious...

Cystic Fibrosis Services: Statements (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is nonsense.

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 30 June 2010 the landlords to whom the State pays ground rent for the properties; and the annual rent in each case. [30325/10]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 1 July 2010, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the question concerned direct provision centres at which asylum seeking children are resident with their families, and not children's residential centres or accommodation for separated children seeking asylum; and if she will...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 280: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the decision to deny jobseeker's benefit to a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan. [30344/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 298: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the manner in which decisions by medical assessors in his Department are recorded. [30783/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 299: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will introduce regulations to permit persons presenting for interview by medical assessors in his Department to be accompanied by another person of their choice. [30784/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 300: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will introduce regulations to provide for the recording of interviews by medical assessors in his Department, with the consent of the interviewees. [30785/10]

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: These proposals relate to motions, not legislation, and ordinarily we would understand in the circumstances of the last day of the session that they must be timeframed. However, the import of the motions cannot be addressed in an hour and ten minutes. That is an absolutely inadequate timeframe to address what is of huge importance. What is contained in all of this is absolutely at the core...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: To stand up on each of the individual tranches of legislation, namely, Nos. 19, 20 and 22, would be repetitious and inappropriate given the business we must address here today. I take this opportunity to indicate that we oppose the guillotine being imposed on each of these tranches of legislation, including No. 19, to which the Ceann Comhairle referred one moment ago and which had not been...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We do not agree to a recess until 29 September. This is, of course, almost a ritual on the last sitting day of each pre-summer term. From our point of view the date the Dáil will reconvene is not an issue. This is not about a recess. We do not want the Government back, but a dissolution of this Dáil. The problem is not the length of time the Dáil will go into recess for the summer,...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It has no mandate for what it has rammed through the House over the past 12 months in particular - severe budget cuts, NAMA and a €22.5 billion deposit into a black hole called the Anglo Irish Bank. The list is endless and the record of this Government is shameless. What we want is not a proposal to recess until 29 September but this Government to face the fact that it has no mandate to...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: So, recess be damned. Let us have this Dáil dissolved and let the people decide.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join with each of the colleagues who have spoken in wishing everyone a deserved short break over the period ahead. I emphasise that because I concur with the point made by the Tánaiste. I know the limited opportunity for a break in real terms that I will enjoy. Across this House, we will all be working throughout the rest of this month and for much of the period until the Dáil resumes....

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 15: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 490 of 29 June 2010, if he will reconsider his decision not to take steps to alter the current arrangements which can prohibit the owners of affordable homes from subletting them in view of the reality that an increasing number of persons have to relocate if they are to...