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Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Is legislation required to underpin the decision taken last week by the Government to force thousands of bog owners from their own bogs?

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: One second, please. I want to-----

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I can assure the Ceann Comhairle the Taoiseach will not be on the Adjournment.

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: What happened to the interdepartmental report that was supposed to be discussed and shown to everybody before any decision was made? Why did the Government not have the common decency-----

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: -----to write to every bog owner in the country and tell them what was going to happen? It is the first time in the history of the State-----

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: -----that property was confiscated and people were left without-----

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I have one final question for the Taoiseach. Is he happy with what he has done?

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Taoiseach wants to answer. Is he happy with the situation? We will hear the happiness in a minute.

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Let the Taoiseach stand up now and let us have it.

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Why did you not do that before the Government made its decision?

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I hope they will have more luck than the people who sold bogs during the past four years and were never paid for them.

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Taoiseach has not heard the last of this, I assure him.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I welcome this Bill and congratulate my colleague, Deputy Varadkar, on introducing it. When the layers are stripped from the issue, it is about competition. There was a time in the past ten or 12 years when the powers that be believed that irrespective of what happened to our economy, it would be fine as long as the building boom lasted. Ministers and the ordinary people were blinded by...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Carbon Revenue Levy) Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Very sensitive.

Turbary Rights (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I wish to share time with Deputy Phil Hogan.

Turbary Rights (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: It always took two, three or more to do it. I am sorry I must return to this issue due to the Government decision taken last week, which appears to steamroll thousands of bog owners off their properties from this week onwards. It has been carried out in a terribly ham-fisted way. I have put on the record before and I will do so again tonight that I happen to be one of those bog owners and...

Turbary Rights (1 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Yes. That €1 million is amazing, given that several hundred bog owners sold their bogs to the Department in the past four years and did not receive a penny. I do not know where the €1 million came from or to whom it was given. Whatever flexibility is in the system should be used to go back and discuss it further. I have no doubt that there is a way out of it but it is not through the...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (2 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if persons employed by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service who have paid into their pension and who have been assured that they are members of the public service will be entitled to their private pension and to the State retirement contributory or old age pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23746/10]

Written Answers — Obesity Levels: Obesity Levels (2 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Galway has developed a special education programme to try to reduce the level of obesity in school going children; if her further attention has been drawn to the fact that this particular model works very well in the UK schools and that part of this...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I am delighted to have an opportunity to contribute to the debate. Few people will object to the Bill but it gives us an opportunity to give great consideration to how cancer services are being reorganised. I am a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, as is the Acting Chairman, and I have been impressed by Professor Tom Keane. I am not a medical person but, from...