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Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (25 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 155: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his Departments policy in relation to landfill, incineration or other forms of waste disposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25812/07]

Pension Provisions. (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will award credited contributions for old age pension purposes to persons who have been carers for a protracted period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26240/07]

Leaders' Questions (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: He gets an Oscar.

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he or his Department have quantified the expected cost of meeting the requirements of individual Members of the Oireachtas in return for support for the Government of the Thirtieth Dáil; if a supplementary budget is planned to meet such costs or if costs are expected to be met from other sources or curtailments in the national development plan; and if he...

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Fair play to the Taoiseach.

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Kerry South.

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Taoiseach agree that the fine aspirations he attributed to the Independent Deputies apply to all Members, including those of his own party? He stated he has entered into a political agreement. What does that entail? Does it mean that those five Members get a larger slice of the national cake? I am sure the Ceann Comhairle would like to know if potholes were to become an...

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: He is worried about the special arrangement.

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Taoiseach think the Luas will go there?

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: We are re-assured. The Ceann Comhairle is safe.

Agreements with Members. (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Inspiring.

Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The Taoiseach wants to answer.

Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The Taoiseach wants to answer.

Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The Taoiseach should be allowed to answer.

Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: In the Taoiseach's absence on Thursday last I raised with the Tánaiste the present whereabouts of the postal miscellaneous provisions Bill, which was promised last year and then was "unpromised". The Taoiseach famously stated that it fell off the wagon. We inquired of the Tánaiste as to the present whereabouts of the wagon and where the Bill was because at the same time that this was...

Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: The Taoiseach might indicate whether it is intended to reintroduce that on the wagon again and pull the wagon out of the ditch as well. While we are on the subject, No. 11 on today's Order Paper refers to the approval by Dáil Éireann of "the terms of Certain Acts of the 2004 Congress of the Universal Postal Union, signed at Bucharest on 5th October, 2004 copies of which were laid before...

Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: When all the potholes are filled in Kerry South, wagons will be able to flow freely over them.

Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: There is a need for amending legislation.

Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (31 Oct 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he proposes to take to alleviate hardship to recipients of rent allowance whose rent has increased and who are expected to make up the shortfall from their own resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26241/07]