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Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (5 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Transport if a specific percentage of all road budgets are designated to the construction of safe walkways and cycle ways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9502/08]

Written Answers — Transport Action Plan: Transport Action Plan (5 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 248: To ask the Minister for Transport the specific targets that have been put in place to encourage the reduction of car use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9503/08]

Written Answers — Health and Safety Issues: Health and Safety Issues (5 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to review health and safety legislation to place a particular emphasis on healthy eating and active living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9497/08]

Written Answers — Health and Safety Issues: Health and Safety Issues (5 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had consultations with the electronic leisure industry and consumer groups with a view to revising the design, production and marketing policies surrounding products that impact on healthy eating and active living, particularly in relation to children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9498/08]

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (5 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 270: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the organisations in the Dublin mid-west area that were granted funds under the current round of national lottery grants; the amount granted in each case; the organisations in this area whose applications were unsuccessful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9561/08]

Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (5 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 275: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the policies introduced by her Department to promote access to healthy food; her views on introducing positive discrimination in the provision of grants and funding to local industry in favour of healthy products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9499/08]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (5 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 312: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the planning policies developed for urban and rural housing, transport, amenity spaces and workplace settings to encourage spontaneous increases in physical activity in adults and children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9501/08]

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Nos. 6a and 6b are motions relating to the EU reform treaty. Is the Tánaiste happy that €5.8 million will be sufficient for the business of the referendum commission? On publication of the Bill, is it intended to establish the commission and announce the date for the referendum today?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Timmins has made the point on a number of occasions that the information the commission presents should be as simple, relevant and understandable as possible in order that members of the public can be well informed before making a decision. Will the information given by the commission to the public consist solely of facts, or will it give a direction on whether to vote yes or no?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: I object to the debate on the Bill being guillotined. I understand 15 amendments have been reached, while more than 40 have been submitted, some of which are very important. Given the importance of the Bill and the issues to be discussed, the debate should not be guillotined. I object to the proposal on that basis.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: I will not have the opportunity to speak on Report Stage of the Finance Bill 2008 but wish to refer to amendment No. 24. We should not divide the country into regions according to death rates. In respect of hospice provisions, the amendment states "not less than 20 in-patient beds". There are hospices throughout the country with fewer than 20 inpatient beds. We do not want a situation...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: There is one further matter I wish to raise. In the murder case that came to a conclusion before the courts yesterday, the presiding judge was constrained with regard to allowing the family involved to make a victim impact statement. Is it the Government's intention to bring forward a legislative measure to ensure that victim impact statements could be made in cases of this nature?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Tá a fhios agam gur í seo Seachtain na Gaeilge, ach ní raibh morán díospóireachta as Gaeilge anseo sa Teach. Deputy Timmins has just handed me the referendum Bill, the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2007. It costs €50 billion on the current side to run the country. Pages 6 and 7 of the Bill are entirely as Gaeilge, while pages 8 and 9 are entirely in English. It...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Part 2 on page 8 is in English; Cuid a dó on page 9 is also in English. The Tánaiste has a responsibility to withdraw the Bill and have it put in proper sequence because it is not correct.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: There is no English translation of parts.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Part 1 is in Irish. There is no English translation of cuid a haon that I can see.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps Part 2 is a translation of Part 1.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: The Tánaiste might check it.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Más í sin an tuairim, glacfaidh mé le sin.

Written Answers — Marine Accidents: Marine Accidents (6 Mar 2008)

Enda Kenny: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Transport the actions he has taken on recommendations made, specifically 8.2 and 8.3, in the report by the Marine Casualty Investigation Board on the sinking of the Rising Sun; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9717/08]