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Cluster Munitions Bill 2008: First Stage (13 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (13 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a school (detail supplied) in County Wicklow; the position in relation to the €800,000 allocated to the school; if an acknowledgment will be given from her Department that the work on this project was conducted within its guidelines and confirmation that the board of management and the pupils of the...

Order of Business (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Fine Gael has published a Private Members' Bill on the same issue and we may get an opportunity to bring it before the Dáil over the next few weeks.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: We hope the Government will accept the Bill and thereby solve the problem.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: I will share my time with Deputy Lucinda Creighton. The Lisbon treaty has undergone a long period of gestation. Its origins began with the Convention on the Future of Europe and it involved debate and discussion over several years. The convention took on board the views of many people before it formulated its proposal for the EU constitution. We now know that this constitution was not...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Regarding subsidiarity, the Union shall only act in so far as the objective in question cannot be sufficiently achieved at member state level. In respect of proportionality, the Union shall only act to the extent necessary to achieve the objective in question. I cannot see how anybody could argue with any of those points. The Union is conferred with a single legal personality. Competences...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Question 740: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [11614/08]

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Daniel O'Connell promoted the use of English in the nineteenth century.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Where has war been declared by Europe?

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Deputy Ó Snodaigh should speak the truth.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Deputy Ó Snodaigh voted against any debate of the Bill. Why then is he referring to it?

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: The Deputy opposed a Second Reading of the Bill last night.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: The Deputy sought to have no debate on the Bill last night.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Deputy Ó Snodaigh opposed a Second Reading of the Bill last night.

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 11 March 2008, the findings and recommendations of the Moores Rowland report; and the way he will implement their recommendations. [12588/08]

Written Answers — Farm Waste Management: Farm Waste Management (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the situation with respect to an applicant, who has obtained sanction for the farmyard pollution grant, and whose planning permission grant has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála by a third party, thus delaying the construction work. [12594/08]

Cluster Munitions Bill 2008: Second Stage (8 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

Cluster Munitions Bill 2008: Second Stage (8 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: I wish to share time with Deputies Coveney, Ring, Perry and Deenihan.

Cluster Munitions Bill 2008: Second Stage (8 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Cluster Munitions Bill 2008, which we published some weeks ago. We started work on it in the latter half of last year, motivated by international events and, admittedly, the work being done by the Government in the sector. We are conscious that a conference will take place in Croke Park in May and we believe it would strengthen our hand as one of the...

Cluster Munitions Bill 2008: Second Stage (8 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: With the agreement of the House, I seek two or three additional minutes.