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Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Before the debate on this amendment is concluded, perhaps the Minster could provide some clarification. I agree an inspection regime is required, but we must consider enforcement. To move for a second to a different arena, there are about 220,000 private households in this country in which human beings are living and the Government has an inspection rate of 5.5% or 6% in this area, so I...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: If this legislation were ice cream the Minister would not be able to give it to children. We have a situation where a legislative proposal that attracted a broad consensus across the House has regrettably become a very divisive issue because the Minister has managed it so poorly. Its core intent remains to deal with the abhorrent and scandalous circumstances of puppy farming in this...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: There is a need for legislation in this area and it is important that it is tackled and dealt with. However, the Minister's handling of the legislation this afternoon has created a situation whereby a more robust, measured and detailed approach could have been taken. There will be shortcomings, although one could argue there are shortcomings in all legislation. I refer to some ideas not...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Regrettably, the Minister has made a dog's dinner of it, if the House will excuse the pun.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Every July in this House stretching back several years since I came here first we have seen legislation rushed through the House as a result of the Green Party. Last year, we had the second home tax, which became a debacle because of caravans, mobile homes and granny flats. The year before we had the introduction of the VRT regime, which brought the car industry to a halt.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The year before that in turn there was the nuclear test ban treaty. The Minister proposed to introduce a fine of €1,000 for someone setting off a bomb in Ireland.

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: This is the type of legislation we have been subjected to from the Green Party over the years. The Labour Party will be supporting the legislation this evening. I trust the Minister will leave the Chamber this evening having learned that there is a world of difference between sitting in the office of the Minister and being the Minister. He had an opportunity to legislate in this area and...

Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: We know that.

Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 2: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Heritage and Local Government the number of houses leased from private landlords under Social Housing Leasing Initiative to date in 2010; average monthly cost and full-year these leases; properties which are be refurbished returned landlord at end lease period with no option buy property or sell it sitting tenant; reason was not made...

Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I thought we would be doing this after "Oireachtas Report", not before it.

Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: It is interesting that when the Minister announced this programme in the Chamber two years ago, he said he would spend €20 million per annum and with that would acquire 2,000 properties in the private sector. The figures the Minister has given this evening are well off those targets. At that time he was also adamant that there would be no option to buy as part of the package. Why has he...

Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: As I have stated in the House previously, there is no long term security of tenure for a social housing applicant in this programme and neither is there an exit policy. The Minister of State is on record in this regard in reply to a parliamentary question. Even though he is shepherding local authorities into this approach by saying it is the only show in town, he is not giving them any...

Local Government Elections (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister indicated in previous comments on the White Paper that it would be launched concurrently with the announcement of the mayoralty. Has the White Paper being brought before the Cabinet or has the Minister a date on which he envisages it will be brought before the Cabinet? Second, we are a million miles away from a mayoral election if one operates on the assumption that the...

Emergency Planning (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I understand that the Minister contacted a number of local authorities across the country to ask them to furnish him with a report of their activities during the adverse weather conditions, namely, the cold snap and the flooding. What has happened to those reports? Has someone reviewed them and compiled the information they contain? Have they found their way into a single document...

Emergency Planning (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Given the Minister's comments, are we to believe that nothing has been learned in recent months? There must be something. The key concept of emergency planning is risk assessment. One must make a determined risk assessment before drafting an emergency plan. As we head into next winter, is the Minister informing the House that last year's risk assessments are the same as those currently in...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number and type of emergency beds available for young people under 18 who are out of home in Dublin and in the rest of the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30826/10]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of unattached persons under 18 years deemed to be homeless on 1 April in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30834/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be given an appointment for a consultation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30893/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that children from the Health Service Executive south area still have to travel to Dublin or Limerick for orthopaedic surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30906/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to deal with and trace the source of a case of E.coli 0157 regarding a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if she is satisfied that all necessary procedures are in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31004/10]