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Written Answers — Common Foreign and Security Policy: Common Foreign and Security Policy (1 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Defence if the position of British and French nuclear weapons has been discussed within the European security and defence policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6749/05]

Written Answers — European Council Meetings: European Council Meetings (1 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Defence the agenda for the informal meeting of Defence Ministers in Luxembourg on 18 and 19 March 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6748/05]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister might think the Opposition ungracious in not acknowledging his partial retraction of the qualifying criteria for the back to education scheme. In reality, the Minister has merely engaged in a J-turn as he has not even gone the full distance of a U-turn. The criticism from these benches was also made outside this House at a recent seminar by the One Family group. The policy...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Combat Poverty Agency thinks so.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: When the Minister assumed that everyone agreed with him on child dependant allowances, I interjected and stated that the Combat Poverty Agency and the End Child Poverty coalition, which represents several bodies, does not hold that position. One-parent representative organisations such as One Family have also articulated views contrary to those of the Minister on this matter. The failure to...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister was thrown into his Department and not given much time to prepare either the original Social Welfare Bill or this legislation. In terms of assisting transition from work and the identification and elimination of welfare traps, this is a challenge and an opportunity which the Minister has, at this time, chosen to miss. Following Inchydoney there would have been sufficient pressure...

Written Answers — Commercial Rates: Commercial Rates (24 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has carried out or commissioned any research on the effects on business of the current system of commercial rates, compared to a system of site value taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6215/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to change the one parent family allowance. [6069/05]

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (23 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which he intends to respond to the findings of the recent EU-SILC survey, which shows that children, women and older persons have a greater risk of poverty than their counterparts in other European Union countries. [6070/05]

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: I welcome the Private Members' motion because it provides an opportunity to challenge the Government not to utter more platitudes on special educational needs or point to well-meaning but unimplemented legislation. It must not be allowed to continue to mirror unmet needs with insufficient resources, the reality facing parents of children with special educational needs. During the Second Stage...

Social Welfare Benefits. (23 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Presentation Brothers rather then the Jesuits educated me and I cannot understand the distinction. The Minister seems to be saying that an overpayment is something that an individual welfare recipient may fall foul of and for which he or she must make restorative arrangements, but that when the case relates to a collective group of recipients, it equates somehow to an advance payment by...

Social Welfare Benefits. (23 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: On those grounds, the Minister should acknowledge that what happened was wrong and that the subsequent handling of the case was also wrong. A system must be put in place to give people the option of an easier repayment system that might better suit their circumstances.

Social Welfare Payments. (23 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider introducing controls to ensure that social welfare payments given to those in institutional care cannot be abused. [6340/05]

Social Welfare Payments. (23 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: My questions to the Minister are threefold. While he has already answered some aspects of them, I will ask again in order to get more detailed information. Given the differing rates of payment he intends to introduce under the new Social Welfare and Pensions Bill, is the Minister satisfied that any constitutional implications have been satisfied? In light of the difficulty in which the...

Child Care Services. (22 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for giving me the opportunity to raise this issue on the Adjournment. Last Friday, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform announced that approximately €2.5 million of capital and staffing grants were to be made available for several child care projects. While it seems a good news story, when read between the lines it is disappointing for...

Written Answers — Offshore Islands: Offshore Islands (22 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 263: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way in which Údarás na Gaeltachta has assisted island communities through the provision of buildings; and if any such provision will be made in Arranmore Island, County Donegal. [5788/05]

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: On a point of order——

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: Deputy Sargent has been asking for the same latitude granted today on the Order of Business to Deputy Rabbitte and Deputy Kenny. As Whip for my party, I ask that the same latitude be given and a response received.

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (22 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: I understand the nine remaining anti-poverty networks are all based in Dublin. The organisation for which funding is to be discontinued is the only one of the original ten which is based outside Dublin, in the constituency of the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Ó Cuív. The Minister's silence on this subject is appalling.

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (22 Feb 2005)

Dan Boyle: It has nothing to do with their views or their location. The Minister of State is not giving any answers.