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Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Earlier this month——

Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: ——the EU Environment Commissioner, Stavros Dimas, made the shocking statement in Dublin that climate change, not terrorism, is today's most serious global threat. Will the Taoiseach take this matter seriously? Since 2001 we have had warnings from British and US weather services that ignoring climate change will surely be the most costly of all possible choices for us and our children. In...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The Deputy may laugh.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Who pays the bills?

Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: You can flood them now.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I want to hear the Taoiseach's reply.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: They have doubled again.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I fear the Taoiseach needs a serious wake-up call on climate change. Energy is the defining issue of our age. I remind the Taoiseach we are talking about the future of mankind rather than about balance. There is no balance in the Taoiseach's approach. JamesLovelock predicts that by the end of this century the earth will be able to support only 1 billion people; therefore 5 billion will die. I...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: He is responsible for this bit of it.

Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The Government has faced a fine of more than €1 billion and who is paying?

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The basic point which has been made but needs to be reiterated is that the additions to the Bill make a mockery of the original Second Stage debate. We do not have enough time available to us to get to grips with the Minister's motivation for effectively upturning the original Bill and presenting a whole new animal. I ask that the Government would allow additional time so the Opposition might...

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Does the Government intend to allow the issue of Aer Lingus to be debated? The Aer Lingus Bill went through these Houses. Is it possible to bring that legislation——

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: This matter is important. All the issues including investment, pensions, pay, profit sharing and security of the company need to be brought back before the House.

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: It relates to a serious matter that is relevant to the Order of Business and is worthy of debate——

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: ——not least in terms of a cost benefit analysis. Following the week of the recess over the St. Patrick's festival, will the Taoiseach or any of the Ministers provide a report, either by way of statements in the House or placing information in the Oireachtas Library, of what was achieved following the large sum of taxpayers' money expended on the effort?

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I wonder about that. Apparently, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government did not attend the parade in Tokyo. What was he doing?

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I have already done that, but I want to know if statements on that matter will be made in the House.

Written Answers — Commemorative Events: Commemorative Events (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the events that she is attending in an official capacity to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising. [11879/06]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 194: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the information which is available to her Department on the incidence of the MRSA virus in the general population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12094/06]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (28 Mar 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps recommended by her Department to those hospitals that provide accident and emergency services to the general population to protect against the transmission of the MRSA virus from the general population to the hospitalised population. [12095/06]