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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My only information was on amendments Nos. 17 and 18. Are we not just debating amendments Nos. 17 and 18?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is okay. I move amendment No. 17: In page 13, lines 33 to 36, to delete subsection (3) and substitute the following:“(3) The Agency shall consult when planning and reviewing the provision of services in connection with the performance of functions under section 8(1)(a), (b) or (c) where relevant, and ensure that due consideration is given to the views of children as part of any...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With all respect to the Minister, I believe that the agency should consult. That is a very reasonable expectation and requirement. Using the word "consideration", not "due consideration", makes it too simple to dismiss and too easy for the agency to say it has met the criteria. The provision needs to stand up. We must deliver a clear message by using the words "due consideration", which...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I suggest that we not conclude our consideration of the amendments, given Deputy Troy's difficulty and the fact that it is almost 7.40 p.m.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the next day we could resume on this point.

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Bill is not about local government reform, it is a culling of councils and of councillors and a window-dressing exercise to pretend that more powers are being given to the councils, which is not the case. At the turn of the century the then Fianna Fáil Government held a referendum to recognise local government in the Constitution for the first time while at the same time taking...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grants Funding (23 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 27. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to deal with the serious shortfall in funding for the housing adaptation scheme for older persons and persons with disabilities in view of the severe need for support due to a social housing shortage. [44840/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (23 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 65. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where the €2 million announced as part of budget 2014 or employment opportunities for long-term unemployed appears in his Department's budget; and the way in which this money will be administered. [44817/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (23 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 177. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of times a Garda investigation has taken place into death by suspected negligence in a hospital setting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44941/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (23 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the speech and language therapy services provided at St. Patrick's rehabilitation and community care in Waterford city and the staffing complement to deliver same; the number of patients that attended in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the number of unfilled posts at this time; his plan to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (23 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 212. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the consultation process in advance of the publication of a new dental Bill; the date on which this Bill will be published and the approach he intends to take to deal with the issue of illegally practising dental technicians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45010/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Files (23 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 220. To ask the Minister for Health if a person is ordinarily allowed access to their recently deceased partner's medical records - general practitioner and hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45184/13]

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Certainly not.

Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste and his Labour and Fine Gael colleagues have introduced what can only be described as a disgraceful budget. Consequential on this they are now bringing forward a disgraceful Social Welfare and Pensions Bill, which at the end of the day is yet another open invitation to young Irish people to leave these shores in their tens of thousands. The Government promised there would...

Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Labour Party would never have taken that position when in opposition.

Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The proposal before us is neither required nor appropriate. The Tánaiste spoke earlier about the number of hours. It is not anyone's role or reserve to make a judgment as to what hours are required. It should be open to the House to deal with any legislation in a proper, calm and measured way. Let us consider the Tánaiste's record of opposition to guillotines in this House over...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection Issues (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What happened this week to two Roma and their families in Tallaght and Athlone is most disturbing. It is especially disturbing to all in these Houses who have long campaigned for children's rights and protections, and who invested considerable time and effort in realising a child protection system that is fit for purpose and in which we can all have confidence. What happened in these cases...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection Issues (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I fail to understand why we would hold back or defer the involvement of the Ombudsman for Children, or any other independent office that would take on the responsibility of investigating these instances. The Ombudsman for Children is an appropriate office whose expertise and focus could be directed on this matter with immediate effect. Let us not cod ourselves. The Garda Síochána...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: At the time of the 1913 Lockout, the centenary of which we mark this year, there was no such thing as social welfare or social protection. If people had no work or no private wealth they starved and their families starved. The only form of State assistance, if it could be called that, was the poor house, and to go there was to be condemned to a prison-like existence and the breaking up of...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This just proves the Minister has lost.