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Programmes for Government (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Among the commitments in the programme for Government is a commitment that the Government will proceed with the proposal to hold a constitutional referendum on children's rights. I have had the opportunity to meet the Minister of State with responsibility for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, and I do not intend to go into the details of that. It is not what this question is about. Given...

Programmes for Government (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In respect of the first matter, given that the Taoiseach has indicated that the Government has not yet made a decision, does he believe that within what presumably is a period of weeks that remains, there is a sufficient timeframe to accommodate the publication of the referendum Bill, the presumable appointment of a referendum commission and all the other elements, including the finance, to...

Programmes for Government (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I suggest that this is but the tip of the iceberg. What action can be taken to advance the measures in the Taoiseach's own programme for Government? I am citing from it directly. It refers to reduced interest rates, longer maturity dates and the rolling-up of outstanding interest. Are steps being taken to give effect to those stated objectives to address the difficulties families are...

Programmes for Government (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach did not respond to my second point. Is there anything he can do?

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the context of the shadow boxing currently under way within the Fianna Fáil Party, the Taoiseach said "We are in a fight and we need a fighter." Is it not a pity that the Taoiseach and his Government did not offer greater resistance and put up a fight when the IMF came knocking at our door? Today is another black day for the people of Ireland as the Government draws down €5.8 billion...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does he accept that the consequences of this are the impoverishment of the Irish people and the further collapse of our public services across the board? In his response to me last week, the Taoiseach indicated, reluctantly in my view, -----

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----- that his contacts with senior Anglo Irish Bank personnel were more intimate and more extensive than he had previously shared. I must ask him some straight and simple questions on that. First, why did it take a question from me in the course of Leaders' Questions - only the second opportunity open to us under Leaders' Questions as a Technical Group - for the Taoiseach to proffer the...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is very important. There has been no opportunity to ask the Taoiseach these questions.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect, the Ceann Comhairle is using up quite a bit of the time.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to remain on track. Why did the Taoiseach not offer that information? He had every opportunity on questions put to him earlier and previously, yet he withheld that critical information and claimed, right up to the time I stood up, that it was an entirely social occasion. However, it transpires that there was an agenda to address in terms of budgetary measures and job creation...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----- something confirmed subsequently in a statement -----

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is not out of order. What the Chair finds is that it is deeply uncomfortable. I want to find the truth and the facts.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not out of order.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Under what Standing Order is it out of order?

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am using the time open to me.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Let us cut to the chase and to the last of my questions and to a question that has not been posed. How appropriate was it in the opinion of the Taoiseach that a director of the Central Bank, appointed by the Taoiseach as a member of the regulatory authority, would be engaged in debate on matters fiscal and economic, job creations and budgetary issues etc. with three, either then or previous,...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking the question.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach answer the questions?

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That type of response might very well suit Fianna Fáil meeting in backrooms and acting as cheerleader.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I asked the Taoiseach a number of questions. As usual, like the master of mutter who preceded him, he did not answer them.