Results 161-180 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——there is a failure to address a real need and that the North Eastern Health Board clearly is an area that is not being addressed and which has a high cancer rate and a serious rate of mortality and morbidity?

Order of Business. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I object to No. 8 being referred to committee without debate. It arises from an EU proposal of which the Government has been aware since 25 March. There has been adequate time to address that properly on the floor of the House. It involves the harmonisation of criminal law, something we have not properly debated in the Dáil. Accordingly, its passage would be without the due scrutiny that it...

Order of Business. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Sinn Féin Deputies are not prepared to support the guillotine in this case or indeed the passage of the health amendment Bill. The Bill seeks to abolish democratic accountability in the delivery of health services. It proposes to abolish health boards in their current form and to place all the power in the hands of the CEOs and, indeed, the Minister for Health and Children, who cannot be...

Order of Business. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——has yet to be presented to this House to inform us of what will replace health boards.

Order of Business. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach agree with the Minister of State, Deputy McDaid, that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform tends to become wired to the moon at election time?

Order of Business. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What is the result of that incident? Will a new electoral Bill be required——

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Motion to Recommit. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I support the proposal to recommit. The Bill is designed to remove democratic accountability from the delivery of the health service. As a former member of a health board, I can say that for all their faults the health boards had at least some semblance of democratic accountability in terms of the nominees of the respective county council participants. As stated on Second Stage, at the very...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Motion to Recommit. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——to the reason for recommittal. The communication I received from the Ceann Comhairle's office states that amendment No. 3 is outside the scope of the Bill. However, it merely seeks that the Minister be accountable to the Dáil for all matters relating to his functions as provided for under the Bill. That is incredible and we should recommit.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Would it be possible to have circulated the list showing the grouping of amendments? I have not yet been supplied with a copy.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Health (Amendment) Bill is not the work of a reforming Government. It is retrograde because it seeks to abolish democratic accountability for the delivery of health services in this jurisdiction. It is incredible that such a proposition has been made separately from the health Bill. As I said, the proposition and the Bill should, at the very least, have been presented in tandem. Such an...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will always try to do so. As someone who was born in the hospital, I am not ashamed to say the umbilical cord has never been cut. I am as attached to the hospital as everyone else in my community. We will always struggle to reinstate a level of service that will lift the dark cloud from over the lives of our communities. The reality in our community is that infants have been lost during...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Another amendment in my name which has been ruled out of order sought to insert a sunset clause. It proposed to bring to an end and at a specific date the objectionable and intolerable situation to which the Bill will give rise. I do not want such circumstances to start and certainly want them to end at the earliest possible date. The Minister has said that it is "scheduled" for January 2005....

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Ms Brennan had a different view. Why ignore her as she was consistent?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister of State deal with the reality with which we are trying to cope?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is indicative of the reality.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is indicative of the Government having washed its hands of responsibility for health service delivery in the county and a large section of the region. Shame on the Minister of State——

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: He has given no response whatsoever.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I echo the remark that it is a disgrace the Minister for Health and Children is not here to take this Stage of a Bill that has serious consequences for the delivery of health care in this jurisdiction. With all respect, I think the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, made a disgraceful reference to the Monaghan Deputies who have moulded together all opinion, including that of Fianna...

Written Answers — Health Board Staff: Health Board Staff (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) who is unable to work here due to the fact that the Irish Medical Council will not accept their medical certificate renewal from the Iraqi Medical Council due to the current political crisis in that country; and if this person will be allowed to continue their...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the denial of visas to persons (details supplied). [15211/04]