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Order of Business (2 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: I refer to the local government services legislation. Does the Taoiseach agree the Government must urgently reappraise the cutbacks in funding for local, regional and national roads? It has never been cheaper to construct roads and there has been never been a greater need to repair these roads. It is 40 years since we experienced such bad weather and the roads have disintegrated. Will the...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (2 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards in each local health office for each month between January and December 2009. [4487/10]

Written Answers — Illegal Dumping: Illegal Dumping (2 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 390: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date in pursuing persons who dump diesel sludge in border counties; the number of offences detected; the number of prosecutions taken for each of the past ten years; the outcome of such prosecutions; if he has had discussions with the authorities in Northern Ireland regarding this matter; and if he...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (2 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 548: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has had discussions with the Northern Authorities or the British Government regarding the dumping of diesel sludge in Border counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5169/10]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (2 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 570: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has sought contributions from authorities in Northern Ireland towards the cost of disposal of diesel sludge and clean up of the environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4910/10]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (2 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 569: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding requested and granted to each local authority for each of the past 10 years in relation to all costs regarding the removal of diesel sludge and clean up of the environment as a result, in their administrative area; the cost each year for the export of such sludge for treatment; and if...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: In regard to the health information Bill, when will the Minister for Health and Children publish the non-statutory report into the death of Mr. Peter McKenna in Leas Cross nursing home, which was received by the Department last October but remains unpublished. The lessons we must learn from the Leas Cross case——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, it relates to the health information Bill. When will this report be laid before the House so that its lessons can be taken on board? This is particularly important in view of another report referred to in The Irish Times today indicating unacceptably low standards at the TLC nursing home in Maynooth whose chief executive officer is a highly placed officer in a medical organisation. It...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is not. It adds up, €325 million plus €169 million, which are the figures provided by the consultant, Mr. Power.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Will the report I referred to be published shortly? It has been with the Department of Health and Children since October. I have spoken to the Minister for Health and Children twice but nothing has happened.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have spoken to her twice and nothing has happened.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is not a matter solely for the Department of Health and Children. It is a public health issue. The self-serving response in the case of the institution in question, with serious staff deficits and a serious lack of care in a nursing home run by a medical doctor——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: ——who occupies one of the highest offices in this land, is entirely unacceptable.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is an important debate that raises many serious issues. Politics and planning do not go together, certainly not when it comes to corruption, because the two seem to have been interlinked in this country for many years. Tribunals have sat for many years but we still do not know the outcome. Suffice it to say serious questions have been raised about the connection between members of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: He learned how to say "expletive deleted" anyway. My point is there is an incompatibility between the aims and the credibility of the Green Party which is now lumped in with the Fianna Fáil builders and developers and so on. I wish to address some points of local interest and the question of archaeology. When a developer knocked down a listed building in Drogheda in 1987 in the middle...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: What individual did I identify? I ask the Acting Chairman to tell me.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Acting Chairman should tell me. Is he telling me the people who knocked the building down were good people?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Would the Acting Chairman defend them because I would not?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: What allegations?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: They were identified in court. They were brought before the Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin and they were convicted, that is the point. Who is the Acting Chairman afraid of? We have to change the way we do things. People who break the law like that must never get away with it. I have not mentioned their names here but they are on the record of the court and on the record of the...