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Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Amendment No. 64 arises out of Committee proceedings. Amendments Nos. 73 and 136 are related and Nos. 64, 73 and 136 will be discussed together by agreement.

Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Amendment No. 65 in the name of the Minister requires recommital. Amendments Nos. 66 to 68, inclusive, 86 to 89, inclusive, 108 to 111, inclusive, and 135 are related, and may be discussed together by agreement.

Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Is the amendment agreed?

Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Amendment No. 69 arises from proceedings on Committee Stage. Amendments Nos. 69, 90 and 112 are related and may be discussed together.

Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Amendment No. 70 arises from proceedings on Committee Stage. Amendments Nos. 70, 71, 92, 94, 114 and 116 are related and may be discussed together.

Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Amendment No. 91 arises from proceedings on Committee Stage. Amendments Nos. 91, 93, 113 and 115 are related and may be discussed together.

Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: As it is now 1.30 p.m. I am required to put the following question in accordance with the Order of the Dáil of this day "That the amendments set down by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and not disposed of, including those in respect of which recommittal would in the normal course be required, are hereby made to the Bill, that Fourth Stage is hereby completed...

Building Control Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: A message shall be sent to the Seanad acquainting it accordingly.

Message from Seanad (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Seanad Éireann has passed the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Single Electricity Market) Bill 2006 without amendment.

Message from Select Committee (1 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: The Select Committee on Finance and the Public Service has concluded its consideration of the National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2006 and has made no amendments thereto.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (6 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Question 362: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is proposed to relocate the offices of Enterprise Ireland and related agencies from its present site at Glasnevin, Dublin to another Dublin location; if there are plans to relocate parts of the operations of these agencies as part to the Government's decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (7 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on his recent visit to the Lebanon; the persons he met with there; the current security assessment there; if he will report on the duties Irish troops are doing there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8638/07]

Written Answers — Commemorative Events: Commemorative Events (7 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Defence the nature and scope of the 2007 Easter 1916 commemorations; the role the Defence Forces will play in these commemorations; if the Army, Air Corps, Naval Service and Reserve will be participating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8639/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (8 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on making funding available to a project (details supplied) in Dublin 11 in order that a fourth project can be established with State funding which will in turn enable a national voluntary organisation to fund a further project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9227/07]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (20 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: The House will agree that the Minister has outlined a comprehensive overview of measures put in place both by this Government and the previous one. At this stage in the life of the 29th Dáil, we should be hearing some kind of visionary statement from the Opposition parties. However, having read through the Private Members' motion last week when it was first published and having re-examined...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (20 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Whenever either the Fine Gael or Labour parties have held the education portfolio, it is a pity that it has been a record of——

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (20 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Hold on a second. I remind the Members opposite that it was a Minister from the current Opposition ranks who closed down Carysfort training college at a time when it was obvious that the population was beginning to grow. They cannot have it both ways.

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (20 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: The Opposition says it was responsible for starting the Celtic tiger but closing Carysfort college was unpardonable. A Minister from the Opposition parties tried to stop children under five being enrolled in primary school.

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (20 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: I have been teaching since 1967. I moved into a so-called new school in 1974, which was hardly more than a hovel. Its roof has had to be replaced three times in the intervening period and it has had a major revamp. If Governments comprising the main Opposition parties had made the necessary investment in those years, such a revamp would not have been required. I have heard that parents...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion (20 Mar 2007)

Pat Carey: Anyone with any association with teaching will remember the famous rules and regulations in primary schools comprising circular letters each September as they came in from the Department. There was no consultation or advanced planning. Nothing was being done at the time. I do not want to go back over everything the Minister said but it is important to remember the investment that has been...