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Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: We are in Government, we are making these arguments, we are making a difference and we will make a difference in this case.

Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: We are. Part of the programme manager system is addressing this issue. It is under active consideration.

Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: This issue is under active consideration.

Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: How much time do I have left?

Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: Most of my time is being eroded.

Seanad: Community Child Care Subvention Scheme 2008-2010: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: The salient point I make is true. In raising this issue on the Order of Business, the leader of the Fine Gael group read out a letter she received from someone known to me who I would call a friend and whose circumstances I am very familiar with. She is a young mother with a young child who has chosen to work in the arts sector on a minimum wage because she gets job satisfaction from the job...

Seanad: Pension Provision: Motion (14 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I welcome the tabling of this motion this evening. It is stark in its simplicity. I am more than a little surprised that an amendment to it has been tabled. I would have thought everyone in the House would have welcomed the publication of a Green Paper and the consultation process accompanying it. It is clear we must prepare for the future. Policies are in place which are beginning to...

Seanad: Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (15 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: It is an essential principle of green politics that the Green Party should seek to be in Government in so far as possible to give power away. I am glad that the Minister, Deputy Gormley, has decided to live up to that principle. I did not expect him to do it so soon or to distribute the power in this precise way. The function of the Bill before us is to do precisely that. There is no doubt...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: It was the policy of the Labour Party.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: What is the Labour Party's policy on incineration?

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I will pass on to the Minister the Senator's concern about his reputation.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: The decision could not have been interfered with and if it had been, the Opposition would have complained.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: We talk of nothing else.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I support the calls made on yesterday's Order of Business and repeated today by Senator McCarthy that there should be a debate in this House on waste management in general and incineration in particular. Such a debate would be useful in a number of respects. Until the decision of An Bord Pleanála to give planning permission for an incinerator at Poolbeg, some members of the Opposition...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I also would be interested to learn from such a debate what exactly is the Opposition parties' policy on incineration. Are they in favour of the technology or are they merely opposed to the particular locations in their own constituencies?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: I would particularly like to know the answer to that question.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: It is still the same policy. I would especially like an answer to that question. Despite the efforts of the Minister, Deputy Gormley, in pointing out how the policy was shifting since he came into office, An Bord Pleanála referred to policy documents from 1998, a waste management policy which was informed by the Waste Management Act 1996. This legislation enshrined incineration as a...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: If their policy is against incineration, are they, as Opposition parties, willing to recant that policy? Are they willing to admit they made a mistake then?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: Are they willing to use the opportunity offered today to state their policy on incineration was wrong——

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Dan Boyle: ——and they will support the policy of the Minister and of the Green Party in Government on incineration?