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Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (22 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: Question 464: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for employment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26347/10]

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (23 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national and local importance, namely, the undue delay in the provision of funding under the European Solidarity Fund for the financial compensation of the people of the Shannon region and those throughout the country, whose properties were flooded and many destroyed in the severe flooding in November,...

Order of Business. (23 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: As we head towards the end of another Dáil year, I note it has been marked by the absence of any sign of action on the much needed and important monuments Bill. Will the Tánaiste confirm this Bill will be taken in the next session? In view of the mess the economy is in, brought about by the Government's squandering of taxpayers' money over some time, will the Tánaiste assure the House...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: I seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of local and national importance, namely, the determination by the Minister for Health and Children to close Loughloe House, Athlone, County Westmeath, with the initial reason being the findings of the Health Information and Quality Authority report which was interpreted to justify closure. Despite these findings...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: Other care centres around the country will suffer the same fate.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: I represent the constituency of Longford-Westmeath and not the Ceann Comhairle or anybody in his office.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: This is a shortened version of what I submitted. I will not stand for it and I will-----

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: There is enough going on in this House without this carry on.

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: Hear, hear.

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: I welcome the contributions of Deputy Wallace and Deputy Mattie McGrath. The first shots in the next general election are being fired here this evening. Deputy Wallace and Deputy McGrath, among others on the Fianna Fáil backbenches, will have their opportunity here on Tuesday evening to vote against this Bill and I hope they will do so in the interests of rural Ireland. I advise them not...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: I know that well. The Minister is interrupting me. Why did he not interrupt the two previous speakers? What the Minister fails to acknowledge is that hunting creates a sense of community in rural areas. My farm has facilitated hunting throughout my life and both my father and grandfather before him allowed the hunts to pass through our lands. I will continue to allow them do so. Hunting...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: The Government has presided over the destruction of the REP scheme for farmers. It was a wonderful rural incentive to clean up the community and to help farmers to deal with problems arising in the countryside. The Government has decimated this great scheme and I am surprised the Minister was not more voluble on this issue. He has let people down badly in this regard. Furthermore, in an...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: Moreover, I expect them to be men and women enough to do so in the interest of fair play and of the citizens and communities they represent.

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (24 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: That is a cop out.

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: It would be better to look after human beings.

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: Closing down eel farming in Westmeath.

Patient Safety: Motion (29 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: The horrific problems of women who were told they had miscarried their babies but subsequently gave birth to healthy children have raised a number of questions about our maternity care, not least about its exorbitant cost in our republic. In a move that mirrors cross-Border shopping expeditions, women are halving the cost of giving birth by going to Northern Ireland. When one considers...

Written Answers — National Carer's Strategy: National Carer's Strategy (29 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the future plans he has for carers following the decision not to publish the national carer's strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27885/10]

School Transport (30 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise this important matter, namely, the need for the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Mary Coughlan, to explain why a child, who heretofore has travelled the six miles to her school on a school bus which passes her gate, as did both her older siblings, has been told to move to a new school over 15 miles away. Her...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (30 Jun 2010)

James Bannon: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford is being delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28774/10]