Results 16,841-16,860 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With respect to ministerial accountability, it is absolutely important that Members have the opportunity to table parliamentary questions. I concur with the last speaker that the quicker the Government is established, the better. In the interim period, we have a caretaker Cabinet with Ministers who preside over their respective portfolios and Government Departments. As health spokesperson...
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: And that parliamentary questions-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ----- would be replied to orally.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Fianna Fáil has done that for decades.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We want to facilitate debate.
- Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is lamentable that we find ourselves here again speaking about the homelessness and housing emergency. This incredibly important and urgent issue has been debated in this Chamber on many occasions. Solutions have been highlighted but, unfortunately, what was said appears to have fallen on deaf ears. The homelessness and housing emergency continues to spiral out of control and it is not...
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I do not want to miss this opportunity. I did, on the last occasion we were here, raise the matter of accountability of Ministers in whatever capacity - outgoing, caretaker, describe them as one chooses. If we read the first publication of 2016 from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service, we see that it is all about parliamentary scrutiny of the Government's performance. Its executive...
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will give one simple example. As best as I can understand, with a quarter of a year now passed, the €35 million that was ring-fenced for additional spending on mental health-----
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I did not interrupt.
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----has not yet been drawn down. This is hugely important with a quarter of the year already passed. I have no mechanism to ask the relevant Minister or Ministers about that-----
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and about many other matters.
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking-----
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----the Ceann Comhaile, in his role as the protector of the right of Members of the House - the individual parliamentarians - to afford us the opportunity to perform the task we were elected to perform, and that is-----
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----to hold the existing holders of Executive office to account in line with what was outlined in the first publication of the Library and Research Service for 2016. Will the Ceann Comhairle afford Members that opportunity this week or in the coming week? I have no doubt it is not beyond the gift of our officials to structure an opportunity to put Ministers under direct question in this...
- Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Ceann Comhairle respond?
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste should take her head out of the sand.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Closures (14 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 155. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts being made to secure replacement permanent work for the 140 workers who lost their jobs due to the closure of the BOSE plant in Carrickmacross in County Monaghan; the status of the efforts in this regard of his Department and the State agencies; his assessment of the prospect of an early resumption of manufacturing...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Internships (14 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 395. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to address the issues arising for non-central applications office medical students in the system who now find themselves with no guarantee of an internship position when they graduate; his understanding of the maximum capacity for internship positions and how these are distributed across the hospital network; if there is scope to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (14 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 402. To ask the Minister for Health why the ring-fenced €35 million additional moneys for mental health in 2016 has not yet been released, given that a quarter of the year is now past; the intended use of this promised sum in 2016; when he will release the moneys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6491/16]
- Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The continuing inequalities in public health are a direct result of the deep social and economic divisions in our society, with the wealthier sections enjoying better health and speedier access to health care compared with the less well off. This should be intolerable in Ireland in the 21st century, yet pervasive social and economic inequality, now as in the past, continues to generate...