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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Location of Wind Turbines: Discussion (8 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: What the Minister said about misunderstandings suggests that people who are against wind energy are misguided. I would love to have 100% confidence that the Minister will actually do something about this. However, from having listened to him this morning, I could not be that confident. What misunderstandings is he on about? The witnesses have done their research and were very careful to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (9 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with regard to the shovel ready projects spoken of last year, the progress that has been made on getting such projects up and running; if he will outline any tangible results from this policy; if he will indicate the benefits this approach has had for the masses of young persons who are unemployed here; and if he will make a statement...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: We cannot hear the debate up here.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I am not that disappointed that neither of the appropriate Ministers is here, because they never listen to us anyway. Fortunately, there will be an audience watching outside the House who are far more important than them, and that is who the message is for. I have to give the Government credit: it has pulled off a master-stroke in this budget which will lead to a reduction in unemployment...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (15 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 259. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the costs of running the drug squad unit within An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43070/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Budget (15 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the war on drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43071/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Working Conditions (15 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 398. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland is being fined under the Working Time Directive for the long hours worked by non consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43069/13]

Message from Seanad (16 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Party time.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Éireann Services (16 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person in Bus Éireann that decided not to report the incidence of irregularities to An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43887/13]

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Writing down Denis O'Brien's loans.

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I commend Sinn Féin not only on its tabling of this motion but also on following up on this issue time and again and not letting it go. If one found a cure for cancer, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, blindness or some people’s deafness, as many others and I have often imagined, it would be an absolutely brilliant day. Now that that brilliant day has come for many people...

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: It is just an excuse. What else is it?

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Nonsense.

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I have to say I am delighted to hear that.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Regulations (17 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the tens of millions in public contracts that were negotiated with the private bus operators by the Bus Éireann employee in the Dundalk School Transport Office, whose irregular actions were reported to An Garda Síochána, were awarded in accordance with the EU Directives on Procurement; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Land Ownership (17 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 141. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of hectares of raised bog owned by the State and semi-State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44013/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 55. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on whether the various restrictions now being placed on turf cutting here will lead to a situation where turf cutting will cease to exist. [44627/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I can only conclude the Minister did not write that reply himself, because it does not tally with what turf cutters on Moanveanlagh bog in the Listowel area have told me he stated at a public meeting there on the future of turf cutting. According to five people who the Minister knows, who attended the meeting and to whom I have spoken, the Minister stated at that meeting that the State...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: I found it interesting that the Minister when answering Deputy McLellan's question referenced the fact that something was private property. I was delighted to hear him recognise that concept because the lands he is talking about are also private property. If he thinks that adopting an ostrich-style approach to this will solve it, it will not. Of of the 9,000 turbary rights holders on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (22 Oct 2013)

Luke Flanagan: And the liability associated with them.