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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: It is a bit like having urinating and non-urinating sections in a swimming pool.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the delegation for the excellent presentation. They have done the country a service and made my job much easier as they collated facts that I would not have been able to put together on my own. The witnesses have answered many of the questions I had. I suggest that people take up the invite to consider the case of Dimock, Pennsylvania, and view it with Google Earth, which I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Mr. Mitchell mentioned the effect hydraulic fracturing would have on farming. Was that in reference to pollution of the water supply, to the fact much of the land will end up under concrete or to the fact that farmers, instead of going about their daily work, will have to deal with trucks going up and down their roads and doing damage to them and making it more difficult to travel on them?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I have been at many a farming meeting where I have seen the crowd stunned, but I have not seen the top table do anything about it. Have any of the farming organisations taken a position on hydraulic fracturing? Ordinary farmers to whom I have spoken are terrified of it, but this message does not seem to be making its way to the top for an official position to issue. Is there any official...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: It should listen to what its members are saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: There are cheap flights to Poland.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when voluntary applications for relocation of teachers from one educational institution to another will be introduced; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this was agreed under the Croke Park Agreement; if he is committed to it's introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44211/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I thank Mr. O'Connor, who has covered a lot of what I had intended to ask him. However, I wish to flag a problem I have in this regard to the board, which may be aware of it, namely, the lack of accountability at local authority level. Perhaps all that will change with today's announcement. I refer to my experiences in respect of individual jobs involving people who have approached me....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: How will this proposal improve that position? In my experience and that of many others, the absence of proper accountability at local government level means they can do whatever they wish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: The previous speaker mentioned the regime north of the Border, where it appears as though they are not as dependent on self-certification. That is not a criticism; it simply is a phrase that is used. What does Mr. O'Connor think of the system that obtains in the North? Is he familiar with it and does it operate along the lines of having a clerk of works? What does he think of such a system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I note only three members are in attendance at this meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Are we going down this route because of a lack of resources, rather than because it is the best way to go about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Mr. O'Connor should have been a politician.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: That integrity is not very infectious.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Yes, his bosses.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: It is difficult to work out what the Government is trying to achieve. This week, we read that one in ten people in the country cannot feed themselves. Now that the Government has achieved that, it wants to try to get older people to die a little younger so that it can save more money. My father does not want to go into a home. I do not know anyone of that age who wants to go into a home...

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Am I in the wrong debate? We are supposed to be talking about home care packages.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: What about the cuts to home care packages?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Conflict of Interest (17 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a conflict of interest exists between his former employment and current shareholding in a major integrated construction materials manufacturer and his role as the relevant Minister for Competition considering his refusal to ask the Competition Authority under Section 30 (2) of the Competition Act 2002 to carry out a market study...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Application Numbers (17 Oct 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a breakdown, on a bog by bog basis, of those who applied for compensation for cessation of turf cutting; if he will provide figures for those who accepted compensation as an interim measure while awaiting a relocation bog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45052/12]