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Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (30 Jun 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 251: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the decrease in farming income in 2009; if, as a consequence, he will give consideration to the reintroduction of the full disadvantaged area payments which applied prior to the budget cuts in December 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28634/10]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (1 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 271: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will address the problem of ewe hoggets who are in lamb being granted the €10 grant per ewe which he announced; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the ewe hogget market is important to the sheep industry and that farmers with such animals should be grant aided; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (1 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 272: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the 2009 cow welfare scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29099/10]

Written Answers — Middle East Peace Process: Middle East Peace Process (6 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the steps necessary to progress the Middle East peace process; the steps being taken at EU level to move this forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29586/10]

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (6 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the recent upsurge in clashes in Sudan which has led to the deaths of three UN peacekeepers in the Darfur region recently; the steps being taken at international level to deal with this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29587/10]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the dramatic reduction in services delivered by the Brothers of Charity service in Galway because of cutbacks and to implore the Minister for Health and Children to step in and prevent what most people believed they would never see – the closure of two community houses where the...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Why are they not in order?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Of all the things being discussed today, there could hardly be anything more important.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: We are raising this on behalf of the people who cannot speak to themselves.

Economic Issues: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Could the Government do more of it?

Economic Issues: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: On a wing and a prayer.

Economic Issues: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Green Party found it hard to make a decision on the dog breeding Bill, anyway.

Economic Issues: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: It depends where the bog is.

Economic Issues: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I thank Deputy Noonan for tabling this important motion on the floor of the House. One of the great problems in the financial markets is the lack of clarity. This results in a lack of confidence. Whether we are for or against NAMA, there is no point wasting time on the matter this evening. It is in place. Every time there is an assessment or an evaluation of NAMA there is a different...

Economic Issues: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: There is no ship.

Road Traffic Bill 2009: From the Seanad (7 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Like my colleagues, I have no difficulty with this sensible amendment. However, we must ensure that the culture is always that there will be mandatory testing of persons involved in road accidents. In other words, that will be the normal procedure to follow except in extenuating circumstances where the life of a person is at stake. I support the provision in the amendment that testing can...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (8 Jul 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 500: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when payment will issue in respect of the sale of a bog to his Department (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30854/10]

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: They do not believe it either.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (29 Sep 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the total confusion caused by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to thousands of farmers concerning the payment of their area based payment and the subsequent payment of the single farm payment when this week and last thousands of senseless letters were sent by the...

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (29 Sep 2010)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 673: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she intends to have the drug Sativex made available to sufferers of MS and other related diseases in the immediate future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32799/10]