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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether vehicle registration tax is in compliance with the Treaty of Rome; in particular if he will consider Article 25 of the Treaty to be fully complied with as it states that an excise or custom duty cannot be redesignated as a tax; and if he will accept that this may be the case as Ireland was given a derogation under Article 14 on import duty...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of where the funds from the sale of Coillte assets will go; the sums that will go to bridge the €135m deficit in the Coillte employees’ pension fund and the Coillte €170m debt mentioned in their 2011 annual accounts, the sum that is currently the target price for the Coillte assets; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason local authorities do not have to make the details of their own planning applications available online as it the case with other planning applications; if he will agree that they should be available for viewing on line and that quite often such applications are of great public interest as they often relate to public...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sale of State Assets (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a clause can be built into any sale of Coillte forests to guarantee the current supply of round logs to the sawmilling industry here; if a similar clause is being put in place to protect and guarantee the supply of timber to the Coillte board plants at Waterford and Clonmel; if he will instruct New Era to establish a guarantee within...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Coillte failed to correctly predict the future supply of round logs that was to be available to the saw milling industry here from the forests that they manage; his views on whether the prediction of a rising future supply of round logs encouraged sawmillers to invest in plant, and thus creating a competitive saw milling...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the threat that the sale of Coillte forests will have on the future of the sawmilling industry here and the thousands of jobs therein and that the sale of such national assets will also threaten the future of downstream processing of timber as timber will be exported in the round to other countries; if his attention has...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Today is the beginning and the end of the budget debate. It is the beginning and the end of the discussion of how we finance vital public services. I say it is the beginning and the end because regardless of what the Opposition say, the Government will still plough ahead with what is obvious economic suicide. We were told by the Government that we could make a submission if we wished. If...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Two other measures which need to be achieved in the coming years are with regard to €3.7 billion wasted on drink abuse and €1.1 billion wasted on obesity. I suggest we have a Minister for Health and a Minister for sickness. We need a Minister for Health also because there is money to be saved. There are choices to be made today by a Government which made us promises but...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I apologise to Deputy Mattie McGrath.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Fergus Finlay would not agree with the Minister.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: What does the Labour Party do with its leader's allowance?

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: He is paying millionaires children's allowance.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: No one said that.

Standing Orders Relative to Private Business: Motion (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: On a point of order.

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: First Stage (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: If the Ceann Comhairle does not want to listen to me, I will say it anyway. Will the Ceann Comhairle desist from talking about me to the national media?

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: First Stage (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Will he desist from insulting me in the national media?

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: First Stage (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Let me make my point.

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: First Stage (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: My point of order is this morning I got up waiting to talk to various------

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: First Stage (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: May I speak without interruption?

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: First Stage (6 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I will proceed if it is without interruption, but it has not been so far.