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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Transport (25 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 597. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30555/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 598. To ask the Minister for Health the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30571/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 599. To ask the Minister for Health the details and costs of any newspaper supplements his Department has been involved with in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [30587/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Transport (25 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 665. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30561/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 666. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30577/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 667. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details and costs of any newspaper supplements his Department has been involved with in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [30593/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Censorship of Publications (26 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 155. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the number of publications referred to the Censorship of Publications Board per annum since 2000; the number of publications prohibited per annum since 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30893/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Censorship of Publications (26 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 156. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of members on the board of the Censorship of Publications Board in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and the total costs of the board per annum in those years. [30894/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Censorship of Publications (26 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 157. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of members on the board of the Censorship of Publications Appeals Board in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and the total costs of the board per annum in those years. [30895/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: I welcome this opportunity to speak on the Government's Bill. I have said from the start that Fianna Fáil will not treat this issue as a political football as it is very complex, sensitive and personal. All sections of this Bill were thoroughly debated at the Oireachtas committee hearings and there was substantial input from legal, medical and psychiatric experts. Abortion has...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: I am speaking to the motion. I am making a comparison between the respectful debate we have had on the Bill and what was said in this House earlier in the week. It was not good enough for the Taoiseach to behave like that. Paul Williams has confirmed that the tapes do not include any recordings of politicians, yet the Taoiseach chose to besmirch Members of this House instead of seeking...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: The Taoiseach cannot come in here and talk about an axis of collusion.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: I am returning to the motion. There is nothing in the tapes to support the slur against the body politic by the Taoiseach this week. There is nothing to support what he said regarding the absence of files in his Department and the Department of Finance. That is all on the public record. Why is he going about the place digging a hole? He should do the decent thing and withdraw his remarks...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: I am speaking to the motion. My point relates to respect for politics, something for which the Taoiseach showed no regard. He is acting like a political thug and boot boy. In behaving in such a party political fashion he is showing no respect for his office.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: My comments are relevant. We must take stock of debates in this House. It simply is not good enough to have the Taoiseach and members of his Government acting as they did this week. They want to let the bankers off the hook and dump the whole issue onto a political kangaroo court.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: I am making these points in the context of the respectful debate we have had on the Bill before us today. We did not, unfortunately, see the same respect for the body politic from the Taoiseach this week. His remarks should be withdrawn for the sake of the profession of politics. They were sickening to hear. I am entitled to make these points.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: I will conclude in two minutes. Do I have time remaining, Acting Chairman?

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution protects the life of the unborn. I would not support any watering down or attempted removal of that Article under any circumstances. I understand such removal is a policy goal of the Labour Party. It is not a position shared by me or by my party. When Fianna Fáil in government brought forward a referendum proposal in 2002 to address this...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: This Government will not acknowledge the lies that were told to its predecessor by Anglo Irish Bank. If Fine Gael had been in government at the time, it would have been lied to in exactly the same fashion.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: It is the same in the debate on the termination of pregnancies, the Fine Gael Party can never stick to the facts.