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Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the first stage of the off-shore wind farm on the Kish bank will be developed; and the way in which he intends to implement the conditions set out in the AER 6 support system in this regard. [19929/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, to have the Government explain how it has allowed three weeks to elapse while illegally imported 2.5 tonnes of BT10 antibiotic-resistant genetically modified maize lies in storage on the Greenore quayside in County Louth and why the ship was not turned around-——

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: ——I think the Minister beside the Minister for Finance may have a comment.

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: While the Order Paper calls for statements on the Morris tribunal, I ask the Government to reconsider and take into account the gravity of the matter about which we are being asked to make statements. The Government should take into account the ten months during which the first report met with a wall of silence and the need to make up some ground for that insult to the work of the Morris...

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I am raising this matter in the context of promised legislation.

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The 2.5 tonnes of GM maize, of which the Minister for Agriculture and Food is aware——

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The matter relates to both the animal health and crime legislation. No date of publication has been set for either Bill.

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Given that the Minister for Agriculture and Food is present, can I be informed whether the Department regards it as a crime that the importer is being allowed deal with the goods?

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: If it were cocaine, would it be left on the quayside for the importer to take it away?

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Both Bills are relevant.

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (16 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress which has taken place in terms of a coherent national approach to funding arts here since the launch of the first set of national guidelines for the per cent for art scheme by him in December 2004. [20253/05]

European Issues. (21 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the referendums being considered for 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18372/05]

European Issues. (21 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach the agenda for the June 2005 European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19362/05]

European Issues. (21 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visits to Luxembourg and Germany; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19363/05]

European Issues. (21 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any communications he has had with the French President, Mr. Jacques Chirac, or the Dutch Prime Minister, Mr. Jan Peter Balkenende, following the recent referendum results in their respective countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19365/05]

European Issues. (21 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 28: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the outcome of the European summit of June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21056/05]

European Issues. (21 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It is interesting to hear the Taoiseach discuss how he respects the decisions of others. Does he agree that the best way of respecting those decisions is to recognise that we also agreed to be bound by the rules established? Does he still recognise that the constitution for Europe requires unanimity? On that basis, can he indicate why he believes it is not effectively dead? Is he aware —...

European Issues. (21 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Just because they can read does not make them bourgeois.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (21 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I join other party leaders in expressing deep sympathy on the death of Seán Doherty to his wife, Maura, daughters, Rachel, Cara, Leah and Evelyn, and the Taoiseach and the Fianna Fáil Party. I always knew Seán Doherty as a real gentleman. I only came to know him after he had come through a number of political storms but, for all that, he was a man who took the lessons of life on the chin...

Order of Business. (21 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: This proposal is breathtaking. It involves pages of Estimates amounting to billions of euro. I have not had a chance to add up all the Estimates, but essentially the Government is asking us, in an irresponsible way, to give the nod to expenditure without having an opportunity to vote, other than doing so once for the whole collection of Estimates. The Ceann Comhairle should consider the...