Results 15,041-15,060 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no surer indication that one is hitting the right button than when the heat comes back at one like that. The Tánaiste's earlier response to Deputy O'Dea was marked by its calm nature. We are right on the button in our criticism. Let us eliminate-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----the anonymity in respect of Labour Party commentary to the media and quote what one of its Deputy's said this morning.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Tánaiste agree with the statement made this morning by Labour's Deputy Kevin Humphreys to the effect that Fine Gael in government has "acted in a dishonourable manner". Does the Tánaiste agree with what Deputy Humphreys' has said?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is it not the truth that the Labour Party decided long ago to impose the water tax on every household throughout the State, irrespective of people's ability to pay?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: When one hears this kind of nonsense coming back, one knows that the Labour Party is under pressure and it is not just pressure in respect of the issue of water charges.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is it not the case that Labour has participated staunchly in the process to which I refer from the outset and that it is a co-facilitator of the introduction of what is now proposed? Is it not also the case that all of the posturing by the Tánaiste on our television screens and all of the other commentary by Labour to which I have just referred relate to the fact that the party will be...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and that it is trying, by any and every means, to limit the negative impact of having sold out in respect of the positions it held for many years and abandoning its voters?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are in government in Northern Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Why does the Tánaiste not answer the question?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste is spinning again. They do not pay for water.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste wrote the book on that.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The programme for Government commits to the introduction of legislation to allow for collective bargaining rights. When will the industrial relations (amendment) (No. 2) Bill be presented? Can we with certainty look forward to its successful passage through the House in a short time? We have waited a long time for this to present. Regarding the regulation of lobbying Bill, there is...
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I swear he blinked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I welcome the Minister and her officials. I tabled a number of questions. The Minister referred to the Children First Bill in reply to question No. 14. I am anxious to hear her definitive response to the criticisms that have been levelled regarding enforceability. Others use different language in respect of what may be required but, at the end of the day, that is what it is all about. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before the Minister continues, I expressed concern about the period of time service providers would have to upgrade their personal training programmes, given the minimum requirements to be met by September 2015. With funding only becoming available in the coming months, practitioners will have very limited time and might not be able to achieve the new qualifications required, unless they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (17 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I asked a question on the accountability of the AAI. To whom does the AAI give account of itself?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given that water does not cost anything up there, the Minister's response is great news.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: My office was open and the Taoiseach walked by, thank God.
- Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “Prohibition on permitting the use of sunbeds by certain persons 5. (1) The owner, manager or employee of a sunbed business shall not sell the use of a sunbed on a sunbed premises to a person unless—(a) the owner, manager or employee has assessed the person’s skin type in accordance with...
- Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (30 Apr 2014)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have tabled these amendments, relating to a ban on the on the use of sunbeds for people with skin types I and II, based on Fitzpatrick skin photo type classification. As I indicated on Committee Stage, I thank the Irish Cancer Society for framing these proposed amendments, and I hope the Minister of State has had the opportunity in the intervening period to give the good sense behind the...