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Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The Government has no policy.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The Government cut the disabled persons grant and the essential repairs grant in the past two years.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: It is not a gimmick.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The Government introduced them in the past 12 months.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: A halting site for Banagher.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: Was that under Jack Lynch or Charles J. Haughey?

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: Charles J., I think.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: The Government has cut the disabled person's grant.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: Cuts, cuts and more cuts.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: They even open cow sheds down the country.

Seanad: Housing Provisions: Motion. (26 May 2004)

James Bannon: Are they admitting it now?

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2004)

James Bannon: That is naming and shaming all right.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2004)

James Bannon: Did the Senator not vote for the ban?

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2004)

James Bannon: The latest increase in the price of oil brings the cost to more than €1 per litre. This has the capacity to bankrupt individuals and small and medium-sized businesses. People from the midlands travel up to 160 miles per day to and from their place of work. For a medium-sized car, this costs around €16,000 per year. It is like having a second mortgage and puts a major dent in people's...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2004)

James Bannon: Will the Senator call on the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to resign?

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2004)

James Bannon: I support the Senator Terry's remarks in respect of anti-social behaviour, a matter that is being raised on the doorsteps. There seems to be a great deal of law but very little order in the country at present. That is because the Government did not implement its proposal to provide 2,000 additional gardaí, which has led to the situation with which we are currently faced. Will the Leader make...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2004)

James Bannon: Where are the gardaí that were promised?

Seanad: Report on Seanad Reform: Statements (Resumed). (2 Jun 2004)

James Bannon: I join other Senators in complimenting the sub-committee and the secretariat and the many individuals and bodies who made submissions on Seanad reform. I welcome the Minister who has exercised patience during this debate. The Leader referred to groupings of individuals and petitioners. I hope she was not referring to little groupings of councillors organising votes during her presentation.

Seanad: Report on Seanad Reform: Statements (Resumed). (2 Jun 2004)

James Bannon: That did not happen among elected local public representatives. Reading the report on the first Seanad and the list of Members, including such well known figures as William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, and Oliver St. John Gogarty, surgeon, wit and author, one has a sense of history. I am proud to be part of the system, as laid down in the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State. One...