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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...? So much of the service plan is a wish list; there is no certainty and it states "this may" or "that might...". Ultimately, the joint committee's concern is that patient safety be a central tenet at all times and that people be able to access critical services on the basis of need, which is not always the case. I refer to Mr. O'Brien's own line in terms of the change in the service...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Sep 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...in greater need as an outworking of what is involved in terms of the constitutional change, but I have always believed that affirming the equality principle should be a core objective and central tenet of any republic. I again ask the Minister to reconsider, but certainly it will not divert me or my party from our attempt. We understand what the Minister has said but we believe that...

EU Summits (7 Jul 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...2011? How does the Taoiseach reconcile that arrangement with, say, the pillars of democracy and national sovereignty? It strikes me as strange and challenges my understanding of these important tenets. Where is this at? What level of information must be provided? When is it to be provided? Will he comment further specifically on the provision of budgetary information to Brussels?

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...reflective of one of the core objectives of the children's referendum committee with regard to the voice of children being heard and the right of the child to be heard. That is one of the central tenets of what we have agreed on all-party basis should be reflected in the rights of the child from the constitutional amendment that we hope to have presented to the Irish electorate in the...