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Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 522: To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that funding for the Coolmine therapeutic community, Dublin, will be retained in 2012 in view of the fact that it is the only mother and child residential treatment centre here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32942/11]

Leaders Questions (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. I appeal to the Taoiseach and the Government not to proceed by the signalled route of further savage cuts in social protection in budget 2012. We all know what the consequences of that will be - increased poverty and a deepening of the current recession. I want to address a specific area in which the Taoiseach can make a difference to people's lives....

Leaders Questions (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you very much.

Leaders Questions (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I would like to give a sense of what people are saying and, as the Taoiseach said, it is coming across his desk also. One constituent wrote: I feel Iike I am getting nowhere. I do not want to sit at home claiming job seeker's allowance for the next ten months. I want to further myself through education but barrier after barrier is being put in my way....

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will there be a legislative response, in addition to a political one, to the Priory Hall scandal? Will legislation be brought forward by the Government to provide for real building control, proper monitoring and inspection? I noted that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government indicated a robust system of controls exists-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----but that is clearly not the case. What we need is a robust system of controls with inspection and monitoring. My last point-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I hope it is about promised legislation because this area is quite clearly crying out for it. What we are looking at is virtual self-regulation. The Priory Hall case is probably but one example of a problem that needs-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----to be addressed. Will the Taoiseach respond? Will he indicate that the Government intends to do so? What is happening currently is not enough. Last, will the Taoiseach please ask the Minister-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I accept that.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister to intervene where Dublin City Council is likely to appeal the decision of the High Court in respect of the latter's decision to instruct the council-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----to provide accommodation to all the evacuees, without exception?

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand the real-time information displays for Dublin Bus services throughout the city. [33438/11]

Written Answers — Inland Waterways: Inland Waterways (9 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport about the discussions he has had with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Assembly regarding the potential re-opening of the Ulster canal between Clones and Enniskillen as a major tourist attraction in the Border area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same issue, last evening the Tánaiste's colleague in government, the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, described as "pathetic" the response of bank executives to the Government's request that the banks pass on the recent ECB interest rate reduction to all mortgage holders.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He is right, of course, but the reality for most people watching is that the word "pathetic" more properly applies to the situation where the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform were all in a room with representatives of AIB and Bank of Ireland which, to all intents and purposes, are in public ownership, as well as of Ulster...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Tánaiste received an indication, orally or otherwise, of the view of the Financial Regulator and the Governor of the Central Bank on this matter? Will their assessment be the final determinant as to whether the Government proceeds with legislation, or will it act as the duly elected and accountable representatives of the people in their interests, irrespective of the position...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I can assure the Tánaiste that I communicated with them on a daily basis for 12 sad years of my life.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste has already received it.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What did the regulator have to say?

Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Aontaím leis an méid a dúirt an Teacha Ó Cuív. Tá Sinn Féin sásta glacadh le aon seans a bheith againn anseo inniu ráitis a chur os comhair an Tí maidir leis an 14 bliain ag Uachtarán na hÉireann, Máire Mhic Giolla Íosa. Last week the Government published its medium-term fiscal statement and in an hour or so it will publish its capital spending review. Already it has signalled...