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Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 27, line 4, after "Minister" to insert the following: "subject to the approval of a Joint Committee of the Houses of the Oireachtas assigned the role of examining matters relating to health". I believe this is the very first opportunity, certainly for this Minister for Health and Children and perhaps also for the Government, to introduce a practical reform in...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a case of Lord make a saint of me, but just not yet. What policy decision must the Government take to afford a committee of the Houses of the Oireachtas a scrutiny and vetting role in respect of the appointment of a State board? Why would we not agree to do that? I was willing to believe the Minister had not tabled the amendment because it was an oversight and that the Minister of...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am not seeking to do as the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, suggests. Approval by a committee of the Houses of the Oireachtas is an important procedure and I have no doubt that such a committee would not be undoing the selected or elected nominees of the respective component parts of the professions involved. However, the committee should be given the role and responsibility. While...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is a pity we did not see the same positive approach being adopted the last time. I welcome the amendment which improves the Bill by allowing the board to elect its own president. It also provides for the election of a vice president. It replicates an amendment proposed by the previous Minister when we reached a certain point on Report Stage. As Members know, this Bill, with the Child...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Minister of State to clarify what she has just proposed. Is she moving amendment No. 7? She used the word "recommitted". Will she clarify the impact of that proposal on this amendment?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Minister of State indicating she does not propose to proceed with the amendment at this point? What is the impact of what she is asking us to do? I wish to argue strongly in favour of amendment No. 8 as a better alternative to amendment No. 7 in the name of the Minister. This is the first reference to recommittal with regard to any of the amendments we have addressed so far. I seek...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That will allow us some time.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I regret that the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, has had to leave the Chamber. He was here earlier. The Minister made an interesting accusation in his speech about Deputy Ferris. He said "the Deputy was 30 years behind me then [in 1975] and he is 30 years behind me now", which opens up an interesting debate about the political paths that have...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Go raibh míle maith agat, a iar-Aire.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Labour Party is putting forward Fianna Fáil policies. It has embraced them.

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase investment in an all-Ireland public transport network. [8615/11]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (20 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the maintenance costs of roads built since 2004; the amount of money broken down by road and local authority areas in tabular form. [8614/11]

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No. At the outset, I seek clarification. It would be remiss of me not to again reflect on the absence of the Minister. Perhaps the Minister is a little confused. I have absolutely no objection to the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, taking this Bill today as both she and her colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, are highly skilled elected representatives who are very...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is fine. I made several calls yesterday and this morning to have the clarity I required before proceeding. That piece of information has not yet been proffered, so I welcome the Minister of State's comments. I am happy to have amendment No. 8 recommitted also, since it is the kernel of what I seek to have addressed in terms of improvement of what the Minister of State is proposing in...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Favourably.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are discussing recommittal.

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can amendment No. 8 be recommitted and taken with amendment No. 7?

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, but we are reverting to Committee Stage. As we are on Report Stage, I am entitled to seek to amend any amendment that is adopted on Committee Stage. If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle wishes to proceed with amendment No. 7, as recommitted, standing alone, I will put my arguments, but I will then seek to move, quite correctly on Report Stage, my amendment No. 8. Amendment No. 7 will need to...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sorry. I know this is technical, but it is important, given what is involved and how much depends on the Bill being improved. If amendment No. 7 is recommitted, my sense is that it must return to Report Stage and be moved a second time following its discussion on Committee Stage. Is that not the case? I would then be happy to seek to have amendment No. 8 accepted in the context of...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Chair indicate that it will be facilitatory towards the points I have made, namely, that we will revert to Report Stage having discussed the amendment on Committee Stage?