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Suicide Prevention: Statements (Resumed) (14 Apr 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I am sorry about that. Apologies. I do not like the magazines. I cannot think of a word to describe them without going outside the parameters of parliamentary language. They tell people on the front page that it is all right to do this, that or the other but when one opens up the magazine a contradictory message is given. On the front page they say it is all right to be fat but on the...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Luke Flanagan: We seem to have a major problem with breaking contracts with big multinational firms but if one is a student nurse with a promise to be paid in one's fourth year there does not seem to be any problem about breaking such a promise. I noticed on the Department's website in advance of the election a description stating we had one of the most attractive giveaways in the world. For many finds the...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Luke Flanagan: There is nothing left to give away.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Inappropriate use of language. I was pulled up for the same thing.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Luke Flanagan: It was that lot who occupy some of the seats which the Deputy's party used to occupy on this side of the House who lost all the jobs. Deputy Tom Hayes should not blame us for what they did.

Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011 - Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Luke Flanagan: When I was sitting in a cell in Castlerea Prison approximately 15 years ago, I did not believe I would see the day when I made up 50% of the Opposition in Dáil Éireann. When my brother was doing the shuttering on the wall around the prison's wall, I did not believe I would be inside it either, but I was. If one wants an education-----

Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011 - Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I also learned the term "TR" when I was in there. It was a popular one. People ran up and down the corridor to the governor every five minutes looking for TR. To get an education on how the prison system works, one can do a degree in criminology or so on. Another good way to see how it works - or, rather, does not work - is to be with those people in the pit, as it were, and to listen to...

Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011 - Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Hear, hear.

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I commend Deputy Pringle on putting this motion before the House. I expected it to receive more support because after canvassing my constituency I believed there was a problem. However, according to the Government speakers yesterday, it is only a minor problem. What harm is it if one ends up in court and one's house is not taken? One is standing in the court with one's children, in front...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I said on my first day here that if I saw good things being done by the Government I would welcome them. I welcome the reduction in the air travel tax, which will cost €210 million. I also welcome the reduction in PRSI, which over the lifetime of the plan will cost €405 million, and the introduction of training places. However, having listened to Deputy Adams earlier, I must concur...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Sorry.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: What about before that?

Waste Management (17 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 34: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will be using Mechanical Biological Treatment or Incineration to deal with the country's residual waste. [11793/11]

Waste Management (17 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the Minister. I still have not established whether he plans on going down the route of mechanical biological treatment or incineration. When I was a local authority member, the regional waste management plans were discussed at the county council. At the time the Minister was in opposition and there was considerable talk about how Fine Gael was planning on having a zero waste...

Waste Management (17 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Has Fine Gael moved away from that policy and will it now follow the last Government's policy? Will we definitely go down the route of burning resources or will we go down the route of maximising the uses to which we can put these resources, bearing in mind the embodied energy used in creating these products that the Minister seems intent on burning?

Waste Management (17 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: With respect, it was not the actions of local authority members such as me that led to power being taken away. In fact, when I was a county councillor, we did not have that power. It was weak-minded people such as Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil local authority members who could not deal with the facts; they went with what the crowd was saying at the time.

Waste Management (17 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: What power did local authority members have, other than the power to talk about the matter in the past six or seven years? The power rested completely with the county manager. Surely, as a democrat, the Minister believes it should rest with elected local authority members who are closest to the problem. Where do local authority members have an input into the process? I never had one as a...

Waste Management (17 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Not in the past six years.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (24 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: I will be voting against this Bill for reasons I will outline, including how it is being funded, which is questionable and how, if we manage to get our hands on it, the money will be spent. On the way to Dublin this morning, I listened to an interview on RTE radio with Mr. Eddie Hobbs, who was praised by the Government when in Opposition for barracking the previous Government. It now appears...

Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) (25 May 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Others have spoken about the important issue of how we can increase our exports in order to bring more money into the country but there is also an area of agriculture that needs to be developed in places such as where I come from, where last year, according to figures I have, we used in the region of €9 million worth of fruit and vegetables. Myself and a few other people tried to establish...