Results 11,021-11,040 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Well done.
- Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (21 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 809 of 14 September 2011, when the information on the number of children placed in relative care by social workers, promised in her reply to Parliamentary Question 145 of 23 June 2011 but not provided in the Health Service Executive's direct reply of 19 July 2011, will be provided by the...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Last night Government Deputies voted down Sinn Féin's motion which defended the ESB as a key strategic company in public ownership. Not once but twice Labour Party Deputies in this House voted for the partial privatisation of this vital State asset. That is absolutely the case. How can the Labour Party reconcile its voting position and its stated intent in the coming months, given its...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There should be no doubt that by privatising the ESB, the Government is implementing the IMF-EU-ECB deal.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Labour Party denounced that deal prior to and during the course of the general election campaign in February.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am sure the Minister is well able to answer this question himself. Perhaps he might ask the cacophony in the background to leave off.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Labour then pledged, let there be no mistake about it, to renegotiate the IMF-EU deal to refocus on growth-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and on job creation.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How can the sale of the ESB be anything other than the short termism that Labour has already condemned? In the debate on Tuesday last, the Minister, Deputy Howlin, stated-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----that he accepted the sale of State assets-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----was not a traditional Labour policy and that "In normal times we would probably not be proposing the sale of State assets".
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can the Minister, Deputy Howlin-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----explain the position that he put forward to the electorate in February?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He stated he could not support the Sinn Féin motion because we are not living in normal times.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Who is the Minister codding? What normal times applied in February when the Labour Party presented its manifesto commitment to the Irish electorate?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What has changed over the six months since in which he has been in office?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: By selling them off; by selling them out.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: All that has changed is the names of the parties in coalition and the faces in the ministerial offices. Nothing else has changed a whit since the general election and those in power prior to it.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister has already admitted, has he not, that the IMF, the EU and the ECB want the proceeds of the sale of ESB to go into the black hole of the banking debt. He has already admitted, certainly, that the Government's alleged plan to use the proceeds to aid job creation cannot proceed without the approval of that troika.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2011)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not only is the Government selling off a chunk of the ESB, it is doing so without any guarantee that the process can be put to real and productive use in terms of job creation.