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Written Answers — Family Rights: Family Rights (19 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to calls from a lone parents organisation, One Family, for recognition for lone families under the Constitution; his views in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11849/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (19 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a draft decision of the advocate general of the European Court of Justice in a case between a company (details supplied) and the British tax authorities with regard to the ability of a UK-based company to offset tax losses incurred in foreign affiliates in other member states of the European Union; if the...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if discussions at EU level with regard to the official status of the Irish language have been concluded; if not, when he expects these discussions to finish; the situation on this issue; if he is continuing to liaise with the Department of Foreign Affairs regarding these discussions; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Fáilte Ireland proposes to dismantle Dublin Tourism following a consultants report undertaken by PWC; if the promotion of tourism for the regions can best be done in a centralised manner; his views on whether the Dublin region requires separate tourism promotion unit; the steps he...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: It is very good.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: They could be up to much worse.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: I was pleasantly surprised to be in the House when Deputy Crowe from Sinn Féin delivered a panegyric on the Patten report. The Minister of State was not present to hear it. I felt as if I was sitting in the Reichstag in 1930 listening to a member of Hitler's Nazi Party praising the contribution of the Jewish community to German culture over the previous century. The level of hypocrisy and...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: The deployment of gardaí, the role of community police and the relationship between our modern society, with its increasingly varied cultural mix of people from different backgrounds and countries, should be reflected in the structure of the Garda Síochána. There should be a restored relationship between gardaí and the public at large. This relationship has been damaged, and this Bill...

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Is the Tánaiste sorry she moved?

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: That is absolutely wrong.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Does that include Detective Garda Jerry McCabe?

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy should not kid himself, they are only talking about it.

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: It is a legitimate fear.

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Private sector investment costs the health service more than public sector investment.

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: I ask the Tánaiste to explain why the long-promised building control Bill has been delayed for so long. It is wonderful to behold that the country is experiencing an unprecedented level of activity in the construction industry. However, it is without the safeguards and consumer protection associated with this Bill. Can one assume that it is due to the influence of the Galway Races...

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Why then is it taking so long? Can it be contracted out to some other parliamentary draftsman with nothing to do? More than three years have passed.

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: This is the standard reply which unfortunately the Tánaiste must give because it is the information she has been given. However, it will be the same next year. I invite the Tánaiste to consult with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche, to consider whether the Bill can be contracted out to be drafted.

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: It is a serious problem.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (13 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 93: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the latest position in regard to the number of his Department's Dublin based staff who have applied through the central applications facility for decentralisation for the proposed new locations for his Department at Kilkenny, New Ross, and Wexford; the grades of staff who have applied; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Elections Management System: Elections Management System (13 Apr 2005)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 131: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total amount of public money spent to date on the storage of electronic voting equipment; if he is satisfied that appropriate guidelines are in place governing the allocation of contracts for the storage of such equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11079/05]