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Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: We have heard a number of views during this debate, all of which have been broadly supportive of the motion before the House. Several speakers referred to the need to support a party's electoral mandate, which strikes me as a fundamental issue. The Green Party thought the issue was dealt with at the time of the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement, which it supported wholeheartedly. My...

Written Answers — Litter Pollution: Litter Pollution (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 120: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to improve the collection and recycling of plastic in view of the large amount of plastic litter which is to be found in ditches around fields in which silage bale wrap has been used. [1938/05]

Written Answers — Development Levies: Development Levies (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 147: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the burden on growers resulting from development levies on plastic poly-tunnels which apply in some counties but not, for example, in County Kildare. [1941/05]

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (10 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 22: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); if she will review the procedures to prevent this traumatic situation being repeated in other circumstances; and if she will investigate whether action needs to be taken against those responsible for denying this person access to their child when the infant was...

Written Answers — Environmental Pollution: Environmental Pollution (10 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will launch a public information campaign on the issue of the indoor environment and indoor pollution and the need to keep houses well ventilated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4175/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide tax relief to parents on payment of crèche fees in cases in which one child alone can cost €953.33 per month for crèche fees and parents are being forced out of the workforce as a result, particularly if they have a second child. [4366/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent developments in the Northern Ireland peace process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34611/04]

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 30: To ask the Taoiseach if he will elaborate on media reports that he has encouraged the Independent Monitoring Commission not to recommend penalties against Sinn Féin in its report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3562/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I was glad to hear the Taoiseach recognise in his contribution the difference between a stabbing and a robbery and state that a physical assault is worse in terms of a "moral league", if one can call it that. However, did he really mean to refer to the bank robbery as showing the problem with the peace process in sharp relief, a statement which surprised me? Does he agree that the punishment...

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I asked a question about conflict resolution.

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about his prodigal Minister, sitting beside him, the Minister for Transport, particularly in the context of the EU Commission report today about Irish women being at greatest risk of poverty in the European Union compared to other member states. It is important to examine how we use public money. Has the Taoiseach anything to say with regard to the loss of public...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: My question is all about one topic, public money. The Ceann Comhairle knows well that asking about the Minister who oversees that spending is asking on one topic. How can the Taoiseach say that the Minister is exonerated when Mr. Dermot Quigley's report states there is no comprehensive inventory of work done under the PR contract in question, that monitoring and recording of the work done was...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It is about the outcome of the Quigley report and what the Taoiseach intends to do?

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach mentioned the Standards in Public Office Commission. I am not surprised it found no prima facie case, given that the Quigley report was quite rushed in the sense that the Taoiseach asked for it to be back on his desk before the Dáil reconvened. The Standards in Public Office Commission had a long debate on the issue. I imagine the members did not all agree on the position, but...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: ——to investigate the merits or otherwise of an appointment? Would it not be better for him to concentrate on the Standards in Public Office Commission putting in place regulations and criteria that would ensure it would know what it had to do and could do its job?

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Many people would be interested in the Charities Bill finally seeing the light of day after many years. I will not talk about the Minister, Deputy Cullen, again, but fundraising needs to be put in proper order.

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Charities Bill has been on the list for years and it still has not seen the light of day.

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: We do not have a date. I am asking on the Order of Business if a date can be given.

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: That is.

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: For years.