Results 921-940 of 4,571 for speaker:Trevor Sargent

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (24 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the poverty levels, relative, consistent and otherwise, among persons with disabilities; the action his Department is taking to alleviate poverty among persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17141/05]

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: When travelling around the country I presume the Taoiseach has, from time to time, come across landowners and farmers cursed with the problem of criminals dumping waste illegally on their land. From speaking to people affected, he will know it is not only a case of crops being destroyed, scrap metal proving a hazard for combine harvester operators or otherwise but often the landowner is...

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: As I expected, the Taoiseach did not respond to the charge that a double standard operates and that a smaller landowner would not be given the generosity of section 55 of the Waste Management Act. I know a number of them who have been hauled before the court. Having discovered illegal waste on their land, they must face the rigours of the law in the course of a criminal investigation. Will...

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach should take it to the Mahon tribunal.

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Of course it does. Would not the Taoiseach do likewise?

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The question could take up more time in the Mahon tribunal.

Programmes for Government. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16072/05]

Programmes for Government. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach promised to do it.

Programmes for Government. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It is clear that An Agreed Programme for Government is not being fully implemented while movement on some of the commitments is in the opposite direction. I will not speak about specifics. Will the Taoiseach indicate whether in the remaining two years the Government will reduce consistent poverty to below 2%? Will that be an achievement or a level hoped for in the same way as the 0.7% of GNP...

Programmes for Government. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It is the Taoiseach's figure.

Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I understand from reports that the critical infrastructure Bill was to be raised at the Cabinet meeting yesterday. Given the circumstances, other issues were naturally given priority. Is there still a plan for an early publication date? Will the critical infrastructure Bill address any of the issues surrounding decentralisation?

Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I read in a report that the population of Dublin may reach 2 million by 2021.

Grocery Industry. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Hear, hear.

Research Funding. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Like Deputy Upton, I was impressed by the number of buzzwords used by the Minister. I did not, however, hear the term "import substitution", which one finds is often missing from Government policy statements. Will the research and development to which the Minister referred address the failure to exploit the full potential of the organic sector? In a €35 million sector, 70% of product...

Research Funding. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: We are importers too.

Research Funding. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: We import 70% of organic goods.

Research Funding. (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Climate change is not necessary to grow food.

Written Answers — Single Payment Scheme: Single Payment Scheme (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether the single farm payment entitlement based in the reference years 2000 to 2002 disadvantages farmers who receive lower payment due to extensive farming methods used, compared to an intensive farmer, and that organic farming should be a [i]force majeure[/i] category to ensure that the new system is not in effect...

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (25 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the progress and opportunities now in place or planned for farmers and all involved in developing the biofuel and biomass sector. [17398/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (26 May 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: to allow time for the Government to report on the circumstances which led to the fatal shooting and another serious injury at a raid on the post office in Lusk, County Dublin and the measures needed to protect communities from such traumatic criminal raids.