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Written Answers — Genetically Modified Organisms: Genetically Modified Organisms (12 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 645: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she intends to declare Ireland a genetically modified free zone to protect Ireland's natural biodiversity and green food producing image especially in view of Clare County Council's decision to ban genetically modified crops. [10742/05]

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (12 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 1050: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the coming into effect of the Kyoto Protocol will result in an easing of restrictions on the building of wind farms and bio-gas plants. [10748/05]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (12 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 1077: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of quarries legally registered with planning permission in County Donegal; if he can provide a list of them and when they were last inspected; if the same procedures apply to older established quarries that predate the introduction of presently applied legislation on quarrying; and if not, when...

Written Answers — Recycling Policy: Recycling Policy (12 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 1102: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will increase central Government support for recycling in view of the recent growth in the sector following the spread of pay-by-volume schemes. [10750/05]

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The moral authority for this Government to pronounce on law-breaking is paper thin. Apart from anti-social behaviour, the corruption at Gama Construction and tax fraud, the Government is infamous for being taken to task for not complying with EU law. Ireland is cited in the second highest number of legal actions by the EU Commission for infringements of EU law, and in the highest number of...

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I always have.

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: We are entitled to get an answer to the question.

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach frustrates us all the time.

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: As expected, I did not get a reply. I asked if the Taoiseach would initiate an investigation but he did not answer me. I ask him that question again. I do not have to remind him about the list of legal actions which are taking place on nitrates, sewage plants, waste at Tara Mines, wetlands in the Boyne estuary, ozone depleting substances and oil pollution. There is such an array of legal...

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I am being barracked, a Cheann Comhairle, so I wonder if you will pay equal attention to both sides.

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Will there be an investigation into how public money has been spent and why problems have not been addressed? Will the Taoiseach set a commissioning date?

Leaders' Questions. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The plant has not been commissioned two years after it was opened. It was promised that it would be fully commissioned within ten weeks. Does the Taoiseach realise there is a need for an investigation into this matter and will he oversee that?

Official Engagements. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will be attending the proposed EU-US leaders' meeting at the end of February 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5704/05]

Official Engagements. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of Hungary, Mr. Ferenc Madl, in Dublin on 21 February 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6759/05]

Official Engagements. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the bilateral meetings he had on the margins of the EU-US summit in February 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6760/05]

Official Engagements. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his official visit to Bulgaria and Poland in February 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6761/05]

Official Engagements. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the US President, George Bush, in Brussels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8685/05]

Official Engagements. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 19: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in February 2005 with the President of Lesotho; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8687/05]

Official Engagements. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Poland has approximately 2,000 troops currently in Iraq, although the Polish people oppose the war and want the troops brought home. Was the issue raised with regard to Ireland's participation in the war? Some 50,000 Polish people currently work in Ireland. Did the Taoiseach receive any assurances about conditions for Polish workers in this country? There have been similar reports of...

Official Engagements. (13 Apr 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I am not always allowed speak again.