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Pre-Budget Outlook: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: I hope he is not waiting for a hospital appointment.

Pre-Budget Outlook: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: We will be borrowing this year.

Pre-Budget Outlook: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: I support Deputy Finneran on the projects in the west of Ireland. I hope he will lobby the Minister for Transport, who has let us down to date, on the N5 from Longford to Charlestown. It is the biggest disgrace in the country. It is a disgrace that when I go on that road tomorrow afternoon there is not room for two cars to pass. When travelling from the west, I do not mind the rest of the...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: It is not salmon the Minister of State is talking about now.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: The Minister of State ran away from the salmon.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: Slán go fóill.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: I will not speak in Irish but I will the next time I address the Minister of State.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: I will not do what the Minister of State did, running away from the fish farmers in Donegal. We will forget about that now.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: The only thing the Minister of State labelled was the salmon because he got rid of the fishermen. He let them down.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: The Green Minister of State, Deputy Sargent, is wearing a yellow tie tonight, but he is going more yellow every day he is in Government. It is more yellow they are going.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: I wish to speak on two issues. We cannot have two rules in this country, one for the Irish farmer and a different one for the Brazilian farmer. If there is foot and mouth disease in Brazil, their beef should not be coming into this country.

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: For any food in this country, we should have a label detailing where it was produced and we should not allow any industry to put Irish labels on if the product is not Irish. The same thing is happening in the pig industry, where pigs are being brought in from all over the world and being labelled as Irish. That is the kind of world in which we are living. I thought when Deputy Sargent was...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: ——to know that what they are eating is safe and that it is produced by Irish farmers. We do not want the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food placing all kinds of restrictions on farmers and business while allowing beef to be imported from Brazil where foot and mouth disease is prevalent. That is a disgrace and should not be allowed to happen. We should know that what we are...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: I will tell the Minister of State one thing, I would make——

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: I would not like to see Deputy Johnny Brady in a pair of boxers.

Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for an MRI scan. [25702/07]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (24 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Transport if funding will be made available for a road (details supplied) in County Mayo; if so, the amount of funding that will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25543/07]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (25 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded the disadvantaged area scheme. [25859/07]

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (25 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of properties spread over a town in which asylum seekers are housed (details supplied) in County Mayo; the capacity of each of those properties; and the amount of money paid to the proprietor of these buildings for 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007. [25817/07]

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (25 Oct 2007)

Michael Ring: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if approval has been given by his Department for the housing of asylum seekers at a premises (details supplied) in County Mayo; the number of asylum seekers based in this location; and if all the asylum seekers are contained within one property or if they are spread over a number of properties. [25818/07]