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Written Answers — EU Programmes: EU Programmes (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 523: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will set out the EU conditions on member States to open a new environmental agricultural based scheme each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27729/12]

Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 524: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding allocated under the current Common Agricultural Policy to rural development programmes; if he will set out each measure; the amount currently spent; his views on whether all funding available from EU sources under these measures will be drawn down under the current programme. [27730/12]

Written Answers — Animal Welfare Issues: Animal Welfare Issues (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 531: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he believes the electronic tagging of sheep is operating effectively or will he agree that due to loss of tags, due to ear splitting (details supplied) is causing undue distress for sheep; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28007/12]

Written Answers — Direct Payment Scheme: Direct Payment Scheme (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 532: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider ensuring that all sheep inspections, particularly for hill land sheep farmers, will not be carried out during the lambing season due to the distress being caused to pregnant ewes. [28008/12]

Written Answers — General Practitioner Services: General Practitioner Services (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 545: To ask the Minister for Health when free general practitioner care as outlined in the Programme for Government will be introduced; the timeframe for same; the illnesses or disabilities to be covered under the new provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27731/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 604: To ask the Minister for Health the date the MS drug Gilenya will be available on the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28182/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 615: To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of money spent on legal fees by the Health Service Executive in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28343/12]

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: We are all agreed that one of the challenges of this sustained period of peace on our island is complacency. We cannot assume that it will always be this way. For this reason, Fianna Fáil will be supporting renewal of this legislation. The Minister outlined seven incidents, all of which were serious and had the capacity to maim, damage or, in some instances, result in mass murder. I...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: My party will support this motion. I wish to pay tribute to the Garda for its work in this area during the past 12 months. Anybody who read about the case in Galway last Monday, to which the Minister referred, will look at the detail and the work that had to go into the prosecution of that case on the part of gardaí. Although some of the provisions of the Act overall enabled the...

Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28294/12]

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: I thank my colleague, Deputy Niall Collins, for giving us the opportunity to have this debate. We had two days debate following publication of the Mahon report. Much of the focus of that debate and in other fora was on the personalities involved in the Mahon tribunal, the amount of money involved and the disciplinary action that followed. No one focused on the recommendations on planning....

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: We took very tough action and we are continuing this process.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: I did not mention the Labour Party.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: What I am saying is that we have faced up to this as a party and dealt with it in the most severe way we could. We have a right to stand here and make suggestions on the future of planning in the country. For Deputies in the Labour Party to throw across the floor that it is all our fault is wrong.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: We have taken action and it must be acknowledged that as a party we took very strong action as soon as the report from the Mahon tribunal was available to us.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: There is a thing called justice, Deputy Dowds.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: There is court procedure. As I stated at the outset, we need to consider where we are going with regard to planning. Let us forget about the personalities and everything else. We must consider what to do to repair the damage that has been done and give those living in unfinished estates throughout the country some idea that their investments will be protected and the estates will be...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Yours too.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: The Minister has started very well.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: The Moriarty tribunal, for example.