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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]

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.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will.

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.

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am reminded that an old tactic is to descend the exchange into ruaile buaile and the Taoiseach will get away without answering the questions. I will ask him the same questions as did Deputy Martin. Does the Taoiseach agree that the Garda Inspectorate report to be published today has serious implications for the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter? It would seem, from...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (11 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 492. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the proposed graduate placement scheme for social workers; her views on whether this scheme will discriminate unfairly against new graduates; her further views on whether the principle of equal pay for equal work is being met in this instance; if she has future plans to abandon this scheme; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foreign Adoptions (11 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 494. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will advise on progress towards a bilateral adoption agreement between Ireland and Russia; the current status of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11860/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Graduate Nursing Scheme Issues (11 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 520. To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm that student nurses and midwives in their final year of college work a 39 hour week in 13 hour shifts for €6.29 per hour, below the minimum wage of €8.50 per hour and the average industrial wage of €21 per hour; if he will confirm if it is his intention to reduce this further in the coming years and eventually phase it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 513. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made to introduce a vaccination for meningitis B; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11606/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (11 Mar 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 514. To ask the Minister for Health when the EU cross-border health care directive will be implemented in full here; the impact this will have on those persons and groups seeking medical treatment abroad that is available here; the impact this will have on those persons and groups seeking medical treatment abroad that is not available here; the proposed method, process and timeline for...