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Written Answers — Affordable Housing: Affordable Housing (29 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 61: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the analysis in the NESC report on housing which concluded that up to a third of all new households formed in the period 2001-2006 would fall below the housing affordability threshold, details supplied. [36588/05]

Written Answers — Nuclear Plants: Nuclear Plants (29 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 82: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on comments by the former British Labour Energy Minister, Mr. Brian Wilson, that he hoped the British Government would give a clear steer in favour of nuclear power stations; and if he has contacted his British counterpart to raise concerns at the implications for Ireland of an expansion of the...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (29 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has adopted a policy of denying work permits to Indian restaurant chefs on the grounds that candidates for these positions can be sourced exclusively from within the EU; the evidence upon which his Department based its conclusion that there are sufficient numbers of EU-national Indian chefs available to...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (29 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the job categories, other than those appearing on his Department's ineligible list, for which work permits will not be granted due to the fact that his Department believes they can be sourced exclusively from within the EU; when he intends revising the ineligible list to reflect the reality that workers in additional...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (29 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 472: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the continuing delay in staffing and equipping a centre (details supplied) in County Armagh; if she will raise the issue with her counterpart in the Six Counties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36773/05]

Leaders' Questions. (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no such deal.

Computerisation Programme. (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if a cost-benefit analysis has been carried out in respect of the e-Cabinet project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31427/05]

Computerisation Programme. (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach recall when the e-Cabinet project was introduced at Cabinet that the Minister of State, Deputy Kitt, advised the system had been custom designed and built by the InVision Research Corporation which is based in the United States? Will he inform the House how much has been paid to that corporation in respect of its roll-out at Cabinet and whether there is an ongoing contract...

Computerisation Programme. (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was about the cost of payments to the InVision Research Corporation and whether it has an ongoing role?

Consultancy Contracts. (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the consultants engaged by his Department since 1997; the projected cost of each assignment and the actual cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31428/05]

Consultancy Contracts. (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach's Department, and indeed all Departments, operate a standard scale of fees for consultancy work? Is there a tendering process operated for such work in the same way as for Government contracts? Is there a particular threshold over which his Department is obliged to put consultancy work out to tender? Can he tell us whether there has been any comparison done between...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: to allow the Minister for Health and Children to address the Dáil on the matter of Marie Therese O'Loughlin who is in protest outside this House for more than 60 days; to explain to the House why her Department could find no record of a statutory body having a regulatory or inspection role with...

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to join with colleagues in expressing sympathy to the families who have suffered bereavement as a result of the tragedy off the County Wexford coast. I extend that sympathy to all who, throughout the course of this year, have suffered bereavement as a result of coastal tragedies or loss of life at sea in all its various manifestations. All Members greatly appreciate the work of the...

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach envisage the introduction of either domestic or EU legislation, or both, to comprehensively address the issues arising from the disgraceful conduct of the management of Irish Ferries?

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If not, will the Taoiseach press for a new European ferries directive?

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (30 Nov 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he intends to conduct an investigation along the lines of those being carried out in Sweden, Spain and Iceland to determine whether CIA prisoner flights have used Shannon Airport, as indicated by a map of alleged CIA flight routes published on the BBC website on 22 November 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37136/05]

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a number of questions. Can the Tánaiste inform the House when the Second Stage of the Tribunals of Inquiry Bill will come before the House? Will the Tánaiste lay before the House the detail of the terms of reference of the inquiry into the death of Pat Joe Walsh at Monaghan General Hospital?

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking whether it will be laid before the House or if the Tánaiste would even indicate at least if the terms of reference have yet been agreed. On another matter, the Tánaiste has promised outside the House that legislation to allow certain categories of nurses to prescribe medicines would be taken before the end of this session. She was reported as saying the legislation would be...

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——yet it is the Tánaiste's opinion and her Department. Will the Tánaiste not accept that the question——

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Can a question be moved by the Questions Office or at someone's behest?