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Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (4 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 64: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has satisfied himself that the Government effort to date in relation to the provision of affordable, social and voluntary housing is acceptable; the steps he is taking to increase the output of housing in all these sectors, particularly in the case of affordable housing which has seen particularly slow...

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 111: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to review the decision whereby companies producing environmentally-friendly cement, or green cement, are to be excluded from the emissions trading scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16459/06]

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2[i]a[/i]: To ask the Taoiseach the new terms and conditions of the centenarians' bounty; the way in which it is expected that the bounty will be paid to Irish-born people living abroad; if they will have to apply for the bounty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14448/06]

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I welcome what the Taoiseach has said and I also agree with the context in which he has put the matter. The Taoiseach will be aware that I have raised the matter on behalf of my party and that Deputy Stagg has pursued it over a period. At the outset of this Dáil we devoted our Private Members' business to the question of emigrants living outside the State, mainly in the British cities. To my...

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Few of the people whose interests my party sought to advocate here will survive to 100 years. Many of them are in bad circumstances in British cities, living in very poor conditions and so on and unfortunately will not experience a life of 100 years or more. Is it the Government's intention to make any small reforms that are in the interests of the people who are still with us?

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: There are probably many more than that on the electoral register.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: A Cheann Comhairle——

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will not detain the House too long.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Briefly, I wish to ask-——

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not know if anybody else has any further questions.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Nobody is offering.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Sargent has deferred to me.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Briefly, arising from what the Taoiseach said, it seems this is the first time our emigrants will have heard that the Government has decided, for reasons of EU law, that the free travel scheme is not available to Irish people returning here.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It arises from what the Taoiseach said.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister, Deputy Brennan, seems to have held out the hope for a number of years that this was something he could concede——

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: ——or might concede, or was working on conceding. Is it established from what the Taoiseach said that the Government has decided that this scheme cannot be extended to include Irish people returning from British cities?

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What does the Chair mean by saying it does not arise?

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It might not arise for the Ceann Comhairle. Certainly while he is in his current position, it does not arise for him, but it arises for very many of his contemporaries who are coming back from Britain.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Taoiseach knows that——

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Not too many Dutch-Irish people will come back here to avail of the free travel scheme.