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Written Answers — Inland Fisheries: Inland Fisheries (5 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the status of a report (details supplied) on inland fisheries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14546/05]

Programmes for Government. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach his views on whether the critique of Sustaining Progress in a mid-term review report issued by the community platform network is justified. [11452/05]

Programmes for Government. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach his views on whether the community and voluntary pillar within the social partnership process properly reflects the wider community and voluntary sector. [11449/05]

Programmes for Government. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: I am surprised the Taoiseach has not received a copy of the mid-term review by the Community Platform Network. I understand this report was sent to the secretariat of the partnership group and I presume it is readily available there. In any case as the mid-term review was extensively reported in the media, the Taoiseach should ask his much-vaunted media-monitoring group why it did not bring...

Programmes for Government. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: I would have thought that the whole purpose of the social partnership process was prior consultation and acceptance of the Government's legislative——

Programmes for Government. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Mine is a very general question about the Taoiseach in his role as Chair of the Cabinet, which is processing legislation that a newly arrived social partner has daily said is inadequate.

Programmes for Government. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Given the ongoing opposition to this legislation, is the Taoiseach minded to bring before the Cabinet a proposal to remove this Bill from the legislative programme once and for all?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Who will take responsibility?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: One of these factors is the absurd economic policies of the Government.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Will the Government remove the tolls?

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Deputy O'Shea's amendment is laudable in that it seeks to have the principles of the Freedom of Information Act applied to the Bill from the date it is passed, even though the Act has been gutted by a Government which does not value the principle of making information available to all citizens in the same way as many of us. A more essential point is whether this Bill is amendable in any way,...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Many of us feel Galway West or whatever constituency a future Minister with control over the fund represents will be the main beneficiary of money from the fund. This is not the way to allocate public money or to bring about the best standards in terms of benefitting the groups and individuals who are meant to benefit from the existence of such a fund. While I support Deputy O'Shea's...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: How many politicians did the Minister's party get elected in Northern Ireland recently?

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: This is a failure of the Government, not the fund. The Government established the RAPID programme and created expectations.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: I am sorry to interrupt but this is not legislation.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: Can I not intervene?

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: I am asking whether the Minister should take a question.

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister missed the point. I am pleased he has a personal rule of thumb and that his record is such that public money is being distributed throughout the country under his remit in an equitable way but what he is legislating for will open the door for those who follow him and for others who do not have that rule of thumb. The Bill allows for the ability of individual Ministers to act in a...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: The reality is that we have experience of how other discretionary funds have been used. We see it happening on a regular basis with Cabinet colleagues in the way their spending programmes are miraculously, without the rule of thumb, weighted towards their constituencies as if the national interest was served by such programmes. The Minister should know that the ethos of the Irish political...

State Airports. (10 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: I am grateful for the opportunity of raising this matter. The interim management arrangements for the country's international airports are proving every bit as fraught as many of us feared they would be on the proposal to bring an end to Aer Rianta's role as the holding company responsible for the management of Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports. In the interim situation Dublin Airport...