Results 721-740 of 5,550 for speaker:Martin Ferris

Written Answers — Sugar Beet Sector: Sugar Beet Sector (29 Nov 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether the State should but back land owned by Greencore, and formerly by the Irish Sugar Company, under a compulsory purchase order in order to recoup the public interest and investment in this property. [40313/06]

Written Answers — Sugar Beet Sector: Sugar Beet Sector (29 Nov 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will make a statement on the latest developments regarding Greencore. [40312/06]

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (29 Nov 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an application by a group (details supplied) in County Kerry for lottery funding to build a day care centre in Listowel to cater for the needs of the elderly in the greater north Kerry area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40863/06]

Written Answers — Bovine Disease Controls: Bovine Disease Controls (29 Nov 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, at any joint meeting with her counterpart in Northern Ireland, the movement of animals across the island was discussed; the items that were discussed; and if anything was agreed in relation to this matter. [40806/06]

Written Answers — Bovine Disease Controls: Bovine Disease Controls (29 Nov 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reasons preventing the trade of cattle across the island of Ireland; and the action plan he has in place to remove any reasons preventing the movement of cattle across the island freely. [40807/06]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, to discuss the fact that Kerry has the longest waiting time for psychiatric care in the State and the need to provide the necessary resources in order to ensure that those in need of treatment are seen within a reasonable time.

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 338: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason Irish Naval and fishery officials were not informed of an apparent arrangement with Spanish and French vessels being granted permission to fish with undersized mesh on the pretext that they were engaging in scientific experiments. [41085/06]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 339: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the person on whose authority permission was given to Spanish and French vessels to gill net in Irish waters with undersized mesh. [41086/06]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason no charges were preferred against a Spanish vessel (details supplied) which was detained on 30 September 2006. [41089/06]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 340: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the use of undersized gill mesh nets constitutes an offence. [41087/06]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason foreign fishing vessels caught with undersized gill mesh nets in Irish waters are not being prosecuted. [41088/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 343: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the principal officers assigned to each division in his Department. [41100/06]

Written Answers — Traffic Management: Traffic Management (6 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has proposals to include new projects to relieve urban congestion in Transport 21. [41677/06]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (6 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that a person in the advanced stages of the AIDS virus was admitted to the psychiatric wing of Kerry General Hospital on 22 November 2006, having previously worked in another hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42070/06]

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: This Government has been in power for nearly a decade and must be judged at election time, not on this budget alone but also on all its previous failures to eradicate poverty in this State. In a period of unprecedented economic growth, the Government has failed miserably to redistribute the State's wealth to all those who helped generate it and who need it most. I watched in disgust...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: While pensioners reliant on the non-contributory pension get inadequate increases, the better off continue to be able to avail of excessively generous tax breaks for private pensions. Just think what could be done for those pensioners living in poverty if the will existed. The money frittered away on pension tax breaks which disproportionately benefit the wealthy, and amounted to €2.75...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: The increase of €16 which brings the non-contributory pension to €200 merely means the Government complied with its commitment in the national anti-poverty strategy. It would have been surprising and appalling had it not done so. The Government can boast about nothing in this increase. During the next two months any non-contributory pensioner living in local authority housing will...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Fuel costs rose during the past 12 months and the Government provided a miserable €16 more per week. That is the cost of the four pints the Minister of State might drink tonight. The increase is lost in inflation and increases in rent and fuel costs. The Minister of State, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, stated today the Government plays its part in tackling climate change. It was a frightening...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: Carbon trading is not the answer to climate change. A recently published analysis of carbon trading, Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power, argues that carbon trading slows the social and technological change needed to cope with global warming by unnecessarily prolonging the world's dependence on oil, coal and gas.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Martin Ferris: As many environmental justice organisations point out, carbon trading is nothing more than the proliferation of the free market into environmental policy making. We welcome the belated conversion of the Government to the importance of biofuels, especially when we are so dependent on imported oil and gas. This Government is determined to hand our oil and gas rights over to multinational...