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Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: The reality is that even if the Government did not give a damn about carers, did not care that it is nice to stay at home with one's family where one might live longer and be happier, where everything would work out better for society, and even if the Government ignored all of that and just looked at the money equation, then it is a fairly good deal. It is all about money; nothing else...

Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Hear, hear, dead right.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate €100,000 to the mother and child facility at Coolmine Therapeutic Community, Dublin, in order that 20 young women, who have overcome their addiction and urgently need therapeutic care, can enter the residential therapy with their babies; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if they cannot get the therapy the majority of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Exemptions (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider removing executors of wills from the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 [57176/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (20 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I have been contacted on this issue in recent months by several taxi groups, as well as by many individual taxi drivers, and they have expressed a lot of concern about it. One of their main concerns is they believe that rural taxi drivers have not been consulted properly. They have told me that many of their dealings were done in electronic format, that is, by e-mail, etc., and one taxi...

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (20 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I am always somewhat bemused as to how the Minister responding knows the answer to the issues that are to be brought up, as well as all the details, before the Member who raised it has actually spoken in the Topical Issue debate. When the Minister of State was writing his response, he obviously knew all these things. The most interesting point made by the Minister of State was that the...

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (20 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: It is Christmas, although I am an atheist.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (20 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has examined the competitive impacts of the Shannon Airport support package on neighbouring airports such as Ireland West Knock and on the region it serves; his national aviation priorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57537/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (20 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the Minister of State for his answer. There are serious concerns about statements made in recent weeks, including a statement in the national media on 31 March. Only one meaning could be taken from the Minister, Deputy Varadkar's statement, namely, that the pesky airport at Knock would want to stop taking passengers from Shannon. The Minister stated:If nothing was done for Shannon...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (20 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Please ask the Minister to engage more. The relevant people feel he is not engaging. They are reasonable and good people.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (20 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: He is biased.

Other Questions: Penalty Points System (20 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: On the penalty points system, earlier the Minister spoke quite passionately about how he intended to enforce the law for taxi drivers. That is very admirable. I hope he will be as quick to enforce the law when it comes to what is happening with the penalty points at present.

Other Questions: Transport Policy (20 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Will the Government consider a scheme I read about in the newspapers recently, which I did not think was serious at the time but it turned out it was? Swimming lanes have been developed on Regent's Canal in London in order that people can swim to work. Would the Government consider that after cleaning up the canals? One would want showers for the canals in Dublin.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make known the costs of engaging a private bus contractor to bring children to school in Glenamaddy and Glinsk in County Galway; the reason this contractor is still engaged, when the original reason for hiring the contractor was to ensure that all passengers had a seat with a seat belt, Bus Éireann now having installed seat belts on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a waste disposal company in the Dublin area is now charging €9 for six plastic bags for households to segregate their recyclable waste; his views on whether this will discourage persons from recycling; the provision, if any, that has been made for a waiver for those on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any investigation is ongoing into the matter of alleged fraudulent milk metering at a co-op (details supplied) between the years of 1986 and 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58115/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Lands (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding mineral rights and the sale of Coillte assets via the new era project; if the mineral rights in the grounds beneath the forests form part of the sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57972/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Lands (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the purpose to which the funds resulting from the sale of 1109 acres, 449 ha, of forest near Ballybofey, County Donegal will be put; if the funds will be diverted into the pensions of Coillte workers; if this sale has anything to do with the sale of State assets via the New Era project; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Co-operatives Societies (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is currently investigating the matter of share allocation and share certification relating to the amalgamation of companies (details supplied); if he will confirm that the awarded shares to co-op members who are, in value terms, at a par with the shares allocated to the members of another co-op; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reason that 10 local authorities and seven urban district councils have voted to ban fluoridation of water supplies and yet his Department and the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health continues with a policy of fluoridation; if he will ask the Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health to address the position adopted by the 10 local...