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Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach also indicate what steps he is prepared to take to make sure this type of smear campaign will not occur again? In regard to Garda Sergeant McCabe, it is not only a matter of an apology. There is also the matter of his ongoing status. Garda Sergeant McCabe is unable to perform his duties as sergeant, in line with his role and responsibilities. Will all of the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach says that we have to get this right now, which acknowledges that his Government has not got it right up to this. That is just a fact of life. The Minister has performed abysmally in regard to this matter. There is the further matter that at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts recently, the Garda Commissioner, Martin Callinan, described the gardaí concerned as...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I ask the Taoiseach to assure the House that we are talking about that first week in order to address the matter of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate report substantively. We have had statements on housing, but what we really need is action on social housing. The housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill is intended to expand and strengthen the regulatory framework for social...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach's answer was clear and I appreciate the clarity.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will.

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: One of the main purposes of austerity, from the point of view of those who impose it, is to lower people's expectations. I could cite many examples of how this has happened not only since the Government took office, but in the preceding years. This is the mentality which lies behind the Gateway scheme and other such schemes or scams, call them what one will. This is what is at the back of...

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----but I remind the Minister there was high demand for soup kitchens also when the need was there. When the expectations of unemployed people are lowered so much, it is to be expected that some people might welcome such schemes in the lamentable absence of better training, education and employment opportunities. When Government Deputies point to whatever number of people might be willing...

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: You are in Fine Gael. That cannot be true.

Topical Issue Debate: Counselling Services (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Rape Crisis Network Ireland, RCNI, is a specialist information and resource centre on rape and all forms of sexual violence. It is the umbrella body for member rape crisis centres which provide free advice, counselling and support for survivors of sexual abuse. There is real concern about the future of RCNI as its funding is due to cease at the end of March and that a tendering process for...

Topical Issue Debate: Counselling Services (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate that the Minister is not in the country, and that he is delivering the reply on her behalf. I appreciate it will not be possible to get into the nitty-gritty of this, but it seems to me that for a part of this year we will not know who will fulfil the critical function that RCNI has fulfilled very effectively during its tenure, to my best...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: International Agreements (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of revenue that has been generated arising from memoranda of understanding and the anti-contraband and anti-counterfeit agreements between the Government and tobacco companies in 2008 to 2013, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12622/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full range of financial supports available to students entering a second undergraduate course immediately upon completion of an undergraduate course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12740/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full range of financial supports available to students entering a postgraduate course immediately upon completion of an undergraduate course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12741/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full range of financial supports available to students or their parents-guardians entering a second undergraduate course immediately upon completion of an undergraduate course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12743/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 136. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth. [12739/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 137. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline all changes to the State pension since January 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12745/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Generic Drugs Substitution (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the enforcement mechanisms that are in place to ensure that consumers and the Health Service Executive actually benefit from generic substitution and reference pricing; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some cases, pharmacists are marking generic drugs up and branded drugs down in order to maintain profit levels; if he will review the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 279. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in detail all options available to citizens who feel they have been failed by the health services, this to include the role of internal Health Service Executive review mechanisms, the coroner's court, the Health Information and Quality Authority and the Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12744/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Suicide in Ireland: Discussion (13 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Senator Gilroy for all the work he has done. It is clear the Senator has invested a significant amount of time and effort in preparing the draft report. I am of the view that it will make a very useful contribution to the committee's overall contribution to addressing this most serious and distressing subject. I also thank our guests for their respective contributions. I have a...