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- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: He has disappeared again.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: That will be a useful exercise. The invisible man will come in for the Adjournment.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I have a question on existing and promised legislation. In September and more recently on 10 December, I tabled a question to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the number of persons imprisoned arising from the provisions of various criminal justice Acts passed by this House in the past year. No answer was provided, just a vague answer going around in circles in the usual...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: This is promised legislation.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I am not elaborating. There is a plethora of further legislation on the Order Paper. We were told, and this side of the House agrees, that this legislation was necessary. What has been the effect of that legislation since it was introduced? Will further legislation be required and what is that further legislation? Is it listed on the Order Paper? The bail (amendment) Bill is promised-----
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I have done that already and I have it here. There is no reply.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The Adjournment is another matter, as the Ceann Comhairle knows quite well from sitting in this House for a number of years. If a Member is unlucky enough to get a matter on the Adjournment, one may get an invisible Minister or a Minister with no responsibility for that area.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I am not abusing the Order of Business. I am sorry but I must insist on this. For too long in this House we have been subject to this contempt from Ministers and the Government on a daily basis. Some of them do not come into the House. I have received a reply to a parliamentary question suggesting I should write to the Minister. All he has to do is read the newspaper, it has all the...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: What does the Taoiseach mean? Publication is expected.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Is this just a vague reference to fill in space on the Order Paper? It is sad.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear. So much for the Adjournment, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: That is why we have the problems we have.
- Overseas Missions. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has satisfied himself that all overseas deployment of the Defence Forces under the aegis of the EU and UN is of sufficient strength to ensure its ability to deal with unforeseen events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2069/10]
- Overseas Missions. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 261: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the various EU or UN overseas missions in which members of the Defence Forces are participating or intend to participate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2603/10]
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which the Defence Forces were called upon to assist in the recent flooding and snow crisis; the number of personnel deployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2606/10]
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 270: To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which the Defence Forces are relied upon in the context of an emergency such as a natural disaster or terrorist attack; the mechanism used to alert the Defence Forces to a need in a particular area; the degree to which this has been operational in the past 12 months; the number of requests made to his Department for such assistance;...
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I have tabled four or five questions.
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I do not propose to delay the House.
- Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)
Bernard Durkan: My question relates to what constitutes a national emergency, who is the activist who co-ordinates it, what is the impeller that drives it and what has to happen before the emergency is faced up to by those with particular responsibility. I think I know the answer to the question myself because I have tabled it several times in the House in the past ten years. Unfortunately, I am afraid of...