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Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (12 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 122: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to the fact that the local authorities of Fingal, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown and Wicklow have agreed local area plans which would require 60% reductions in CO2 emissions, his views on whether it is time that his Department produced regulations that would require all local authorities to set such targets...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (12 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 178: To ask the Taoiseach his views on whether it is necessary and prudent to engage opposition parties in formal briefings with regard to any plan B that may be initiated in the absence of the restoration of power-sharing in Northern Ireland. [42345/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department will establish a public inquiry into collusion of British authorities with loyalist paramilitaries following recent reports on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41355/06]

Northern Ireland Issues. (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I have a number of questions arising from the Taoiseach's reply. He said that the delay in regard to the MacEntee inquiry is regrettable, with which we all agree, but it is due to the fact that new evidence has continued to be brought forward. Surely it could be a tactic to delay an inquiry if new evidence is being dripfed on an interminable basis. Will a cut-off date be set following...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I am unsure whether Members are any the wiser.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: That is the answer. Very well. I wish to ask the Taoiseach to reconsider the January sittings as it does not do the House any good to give the impression it is returning in January without Government accountability apart from the debate on the nursing home issue. While that issue is important, it is not what the Dáil is established to do in full. Government accountability and Taoiseach's...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: ——should not be tolerated.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I wanted to highlight the urgency of the matter.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I believe what was said, with the expletive, was nailing buyers to the effing wall. This is not the kind of consumer protection which is tolerable.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The legislation to which I refer is the proposed consumer protection, national consumer agency, Bill. It is extremely urgent and was due to be published in this session. It should be enacted. When will Members have access to it?

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: By this session does the Taoiseach mean before the end of January?

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Steady on.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I wish the Taoiseach well for his European Council meeting. Perhaps he can return with a clear Government position on climate change before breaking for Christmas. I wish the Ceann Comhairle and the staff who keep the Houses of the Oireachtas working in such an efficient manner, notwithstanding all the challenges and unsocial working hours, a happy Christmas. On behalf of the Green Party,...

Written Answers — Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla: Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (13 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 101: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil sé sásta na Rialacháin um Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003 (Alt 9) 2006 a leasú maidir le síneacha tráchta, fógraíocht, lógónna, gnó lasmuigh den stát agus comharthaí reatha mar atá molta ag Conradh na Gaeilge. [42910/06]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (14 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I ask that Dáil Éireann be adjourned under Standing Order 31 to deal with a matter of utmost urgency, namely, to have the Government formulate a comprehensive and effective response to the record levels of gun crime and murder and to discuss what the Minister for Defence said, that Senator Brady was speaking for the Government when he suggested that troops should take to the streets, and...

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: On the proposal for the late sitting, it took almost ten minutes for the Tánaiste to go through the headings of what we are dealing with today. For the Dáil to sit for a shorter period than yesterday and the day before sounds as if the Government wants to push through legislation as opposed to debating it in the House. The sitting should reflect the amount of business. It is too short a...

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I expected that a Private Notice Question on the record levels of gun crime and murder that are unfolding daily might be accepted today and I submitted one on that basis. Will the Ceann Comhairle confirm this when I have made my contribution? The Tánaiste read a list that included so many years and numbers I was reminded of a Johnny Cash song. This is a farce because these motions and so...

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: It is opposed. This legislation has to be dealt with today, which is the last sitting day before Christmas. This country is at a major crossroads, at which it needs to decide whether it will use extraordinary amounts of taxpayers' money to buy carbon credits, or motivate and mobilise the people to take alternative action. People in the business community, in particular, will gain a great...

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The Government is prepared to pay its way out of this problem.

Order of Business. (14 Dec 2006)

Trevor Sargent: It is taking an extraordinarily irresponsible and short-sighted line, particularly at a time when the price of carbon is about to rocket. Anybody who reads the international literature on this matter knows there is no way the Government can argue that this matter can be boxed off and dealt with at the last minute, at the end of term.