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Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: The problem with section 37F(2) is that we do not have a clear idea as to what the Minister is proposing as paragraph (a) contains the phrase "as appropriate". We have no idea, nor has the public, what the Minister means by "as appropriate". I ask that the Minister give a firm commitment at this Stage to clarify exactly what will be legally required because he may decide in his wisdom that he...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: It was not that aspect of the legislation to which I was drawing attention, as the Minister knows.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: I am trying to work out whether that was a slur or a compliment. I will take it as a compliment.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: I move amendment No. 38: In page 7, to delete lines 46 to 52 and in page 8, to delete lines 1 to 16 and substitute the following: "(6) The Board shall prepare a report and keep it on public record, of its considerations and deliberations that determined the outcome of its decision under section 37(A).". This is an important amendment. Many who have gone through the long and protracted process...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Nobody has said that.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: A door will be closed at the planning counter in a few minutes, but the flap of a tent will open elsewhere in a few days. The public's input into the planning process is about to be severely limited. The kind of fast-tracking of the amendments which we have tonight is symptomatic and similar to the kind of fast-tracking which will come about if this Bill is passed. We have not gone through a...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (4 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: It is an arrogant move, the same arrogance that led to the Minister setting up a heritage trust some days ago and ignoring the 50 years of experience that Ireland's national trust, An Taisce, has given to this land since Robert Lloyd Praeger initiated the organisation some 50 years ago. The Minister ignored those views and appointed people who have more to do with concrete than conservation....

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding plans to provide a school site for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin. [25981/06]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (4 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will commit to a review of school bus catchment areas and boundaries as part of the last year's programme of work. [25982/06]

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: What about the Kenny report when it comes to platitudes?

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: I was inspired by the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism earlier. In the 1970s I spent time in the Kingdom not 100 miles from Caherciveen. A man drove along the beach every Sunday in a Hillman Avenger with a sad looking greyhound on the end of a piece of string running behind the car. A match commentary could be heard on the radio while the man had The Sunday Press spread out on the...

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: With regard to children's issues, we would ensure quality as well as quantity. In planning, we would build living communities rather than soulless housing estates and end the legacy of bad and corrupt planning. We would implement the Kenny report on housing rather than talk about it and we would build affordable, energy efficient homes. With regard to transport, we would have the political...

Building Societies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: I was amused by the Ceann Comhairle's reference to precedence under Standing Orders. He appeared to put significant emphasis on the railways legislation from the 1920s. It is no coincidence that this Bill is being railroaded through the House. I feel a grave sense of unease at discussing a Bill for the first time at 10.30 p.m. on the evening before the Dáil rises for three months. That does...

Criminal Justice Bill 2006: From the Seanad. (5 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: I welcome some of the changes to the Bill. The watering down of the proposal for anti-social behaviour orders is a step in the right direction and I am pleased that the Minister has accepted that the Children Act must be fully implemented. It was worrying that many parts of the Act had been gathering dust on the shelf over recent years. I take a jaundiced view of some aspects of the Bill,...

Written Answers — Forestry Sector: Forestry Sector (5 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 366: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in regard to the consultation process regarding the Forestry Review and the basis on which the decision to exclude the Forestry Act 1988 from this review was made, she will provide the Houses of the Oireachtas with the record by which this decision was made and include all correspondence with the Department, which is the main...

Written Answers — Forestry Sector: Forestry Sector (5 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 367: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the location, area, parties involved, reasons and terms of any lands exchanged by Coillte in the past three years under Section 39 of the Forestry Act 1988; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26688/06]

Written Answers — Swimming Pool Projects: Swimming Pool Projects (6 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the expenditure review of the current swimming pool programme will be completed at the end of July 2006, as expected; and if so, when will the issue of whether to re-open the programme be looked at, in view of the demand for swimming pools across the country, including for example Lucan, which has recently had a pool sanctioned...

Written Answers — Architectural Heritage: Architectural Heritage (6 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the future conservation, restoration or re-use of a fort (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27558/06]

Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (6 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 281: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department has conducted studies on potential financial and environmental benefit of increased insulation in the domestic property sector; and his views on implementing a grants scheme, similar to the greener homes operated by Sustainable Energy Ireland, aimed at subsidising those homeowners who invest...

Written Answers — Coastal Protection: Coastal Protection (6 Jul 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 282: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to progress the draft Coastal Zone Management Plan from 1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28038/06]