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Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Shame on the Minister for using such terminology.

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is not saying much.

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I refer to a reply by the Minister to my Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 18 May 2010 in which I asked him to publish the full list of bondholders involved in Anglo Irish Bank, in view of the fact that Anglo Irish Bank is in State ownership and given the extent of the Irish public's exposure. The Minister replied that detailed information on bondholders of domestic credit institutions'...

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will cite a small number of them: Alliance Global Investors France SA, Barclays Wealth Managers France, BlueBay Asset Management Ltd, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Brown, Shipley & Co Ltd, Crédit Suisse Asset Management, Deutsche Asset Management Investmentgesellschaft, European Credit Management Ltd, Frankfurt - Trust Investment, W&W Asset Management and WGZ Asset Bank Luxembourg. I...

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister still not know who they are?

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are talking about Anglo Irish Bank bonds.

Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister elevated their investment.

Written Answers — Commemorative Events: Commemorative Events (20 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department has an outline commemorative programme up to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32345/10]

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I too object to the Dáil's not returning until 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday of next week. We have made the case repeatedly, not only last week but again this week, for the Minister for Health and Children, whom I have yet to see in the Chamber this week, to come to the House to address the serious issues with our health services. I will highlight only two of these: the debacle of the relocation...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of anticipated cuts in the health budget of between €600 million and €1 billion in 2011. We need to address these matters because our health service is already seriously underfunded and depleted.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am objecting to that-----

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am proposing that we come back here on Tuesday as normal and have the Minister for Health and Children address these serious matters, which are being discussed in every other forum imaginable but not on the floor of this Dáil. We need more time to debate the current fiscal difficulties and the economy, and both of these matters could be provided for. In order to get through to the...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----we need to have these arguments on the floor of the House.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: For both of these reasons, I propose that we return here next Tuesday as normal.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Clearly, from what has just been said, this consensus continues, in which I must say I am glad I have no hand, act or part. I appeal to the Minister before he leaves - I notice he was nodding his head in rejection of the fact that the ESRI has come out the morning confirming, as has ICTU, the community and voluntary sector and a growing number of economists that the Sinn Féin position that...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----is very regrettable.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will avail of it, make no mistake, but I make an appeal in advance of it that the Government will not adopt a dog in the manger approach with closed minds to alternative ideas that are clearly growing in favour right across Irish society.

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason it is only prior to departure on overseas missions that soldiers undergo full medical checks and if he see the logic of asking the military authorities to carry out a full medical check on return from such missions to ensure the soldiers are in full fitness and that any medical complications associated with overseas operations can be...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (21 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of soldiers who have served overseas in Africa in the past ten years; the number of suicides in the army each year for the past 20 years; the number of these for each year who had served overseas in Africa; the steps that have been taken to help those in the army with suicidal tendencies; and if he will instruct the military...

Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I waive any questions I have; I believe we should get on with the business we have already agreed to address here today.