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Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Is the Minister of State accepting the amendment?

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: I accept the Minister's assurances.

Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: I move amendment No. 3: In page 11, after line 42, to insert the following: "(c) regulation made under paragraph (b) shall be made within 30 days of the commencement of this section.". This also is a time-related amendment. We are anxious to ensure there is no undue delay.

Departmental Agencies. (3 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Is it difficult to predict how long the Government will last, or how long the process will take?

Departmental Agencies. (3 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: That does not mean there is no dumping.

Written Answers — Free Trade Agreements: Free Trade Agreements (8 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Question 287: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has conveyed to the EU Commissioner on Trade his views on EU negotiations for a free trade agreement with Columbia; his approach to these negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45744/09]

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: The Minister of State, Deputy Dick Roche, should keep his head down. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority did not do him any favours.

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: The Minister of State should watch it or he will find himself a further row back.

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: They were in Galway tent.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: It is time the Minister recognised it.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: It will be easier to count snails than Green Party members after the next election.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: I always understood the principle underpinning a carbon tax was that it would be revenue neutral. The manner in which it is being introduced is not.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: I apologise. I am addressing those whom I perceive to be the architects of the tax but I should not differentiate between the Government parties. For example, targets were recently published for blended fuels but no policy incentives have been laid down to increase biofuel production. We will import biofuels to meet the targets.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: The much trumpeted €121million allocation for forestry and biofuels was announced by the Minister for Finance as if new money was being provided. This represents a net increase of €2 million over the allocation for 2009. The ink is not dry on the revised programme for Government, which has a target of planting 10,000 hectares of forestry annually. The Department did not even plant...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: We are not going back to the pony and trap form of agriculture. If Deputy Gogarty has nothing constructive to say, he would be as well off leaving the Chamber. I appeal to the Minister to be true to the principles of a carbon tax, which are behaviour changing and revenue neutral. It meets neither, as proposed.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Aithníon ciaróg ciaróg eile.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: What about the incinerator?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: Get on with it Kermit.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Creed: How many councillors does the Minister's party have?