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Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress in the social partnership process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3205/06]

Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach accept that a fundamental issue in the partnership talks must be the threat to the pay and conditions of workers in Ireland posed by the EU services directive? Does he accept that the services directive represents a threat to the long-established rights of workers throughout the length and breadth of the European Union? If implemented in its current form, what we will see...

Order of Business. (8 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Order of Business. (8 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I object to the guillotine applying to Second Stage of the Finance Bill this evening. For the reason Deputy Burton highlighted, and others allied to it, the Government is only too delighted to see a guillotine apply, with less opportunity provided to Members to draw attention to and tease out the salient items in the Finance Bill and those that are not so. This is against the backdrop of the...

Order of Business. (8 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will not do so. We will see a two-tier system of mental health provision here, where on the one hand those who can buy access will get the best treatments and speediest access possible while everybody else will have to languish and wait, just as we must do in the case of the public health system through the network of hospital sites. It is no wonder the Taoiseach wants to see a guillotine...

Order of Business. (8 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Three Bills relate to health. I wish to ask regarding the health (nursing homes) (amendment) Bill, the hepatitis C and HIV compensation tribunal (amendment) Bill, and the health (repayment scheme) Bill, formerly the repayment scheme for charges for publicly funded residential long stay care Bill. Under the current programme each of these is promised for this spring session. Will the Taoiseach...

Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Finance Bill reaches the floor of the Dáil in the wake of the latest National Economic and Social Forum report published on Monday. The report confirms in the starkest of terms the gross inequality in this society after over a decade of the Celtic tiger and nearly a decade of continuous Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Governments. The NESF makes clear we now have a wealthier but more...

Written Answers — Organ Donation: Organ Donation (8 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce an organ donation scheme such as those found in several other European countries in which consent to donate is presumed unless an opt-out form has been signed. [4467/06]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (8 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 303: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if humanitarian leave will be granted to a person (details supplied) to remain here. [4468/06]

Order of Business. (9 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would the Minister, who is in the hot-seat today and who we welcome in that role, recognise that there is great consternation caused by this Bill currently before the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and take the honourable course of withdrawing the Bill in its entirety?

Order of Business. (9 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: With three of the country's four sexual assault treatment units, at the Rotunda, Waterford Regional Hospital, and Letterkenny General Hospital, at risk of closure, can the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources advise what mechanism the former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, employed to ensure funding for the Cork centre? Is legislation required to provide...

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his work in the peace process since 14 December 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40279/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Has the Taoiseach noted the Finucane family's restated rejection of any inquiry under the restrictions of the British Inquiries Act? The family made that rejection patently clear following its meeting with Peter Hain last week. Where does the Taoiseach stand on the Finucane family's demand for a full, open, public inquiry that is not gagged by the mechanism of the Inquiries Act, is he...

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach seek a summit on the matter?

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach left out an answer to one question.

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to know the Taoiseach's views on ID cards.

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It did not take me five minutes to submit the question.

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I wish to know the Taoiseach's views on ID cards.

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We would also like to hear the answer.

Leaders' Questions. (14 Feb 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I join Deputies Kenny and Rabbitte in an expression of sympathy to the Keegan family and to all those bereaved by the tragedy that occurred yesterday in Firhouse. We are also mindful of the hurt and pain of neighbours in the wider community and of young school friends in that wider catchment. The Taoiseach referred in his responses to Deputies Kenny and Rabbitte to new evidence concerning the...