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Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (3 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I regret to advise the Deputy that it is not possible to provide a response to his Question at this time. The information sought by the Deputy will be provided at a later date.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (3 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: My Department's decentralisation programme has been extremely successful to date. Five hundred and fifty civil servants in thirteen bodies have already moved to eight locations and a further 120 staff are due to move in the next two years. As the Deputy will be aware, the Office of Public Works is responsible for the procurement of property required under the Decentralisation Programme. The...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (3 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I can inform the Deputy that the answer to his Question would require researching hundreds of files going back over 13 years and I do not consider the use of my Department's resources for such purposes to be warranted or proportionate.

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (3 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: It is not possible to provide the information sought by the Deputy at this time. I will be in contact with the Deputy when the information is to hand.

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (3 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I regret that the information requested by the Deputy is not readily to hand. I will write to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: This is democracy.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: That is what we are doing, deliberating.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: That is what the Deputy wants.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy is going back to her roots.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: They might be able to do it in Moscow.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputies opposite know that one cannot rewrite contracts by changing the law.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputies are hoodwinking people.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputies are hoodwinking the people.

Gangland Killings. (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I deplore the recent killings. They are further evidence of the callous disregard for human life and community safety shown by members of criminal gangs. The Garda Síochána is carrying out intensive investigations of all these killings and has made good progress in respect of a number of them. The Garda Commissioner has kept me briefed on these events. In setting the policing priorities...

Gangland Killings. (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Either Deputy Flanagan is speaking with a very large tongue in his cheek or he clearly does not understand how prosecutions are gathered. It shows an incredible lack of understanding on his part of how prosecutions are put together, given that those two pieces of legislation were enacted only last July. We are not dealing with ordinary, run of the mill crime but rather with very significant...

Gangland Killings. (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: -----all the hoo-ha that was created by people like Deputy Flanagan and others on that side of the House as to whether this was ground-breaking legislation, and I maintained it was not. It takes time for the evidence to be accumulated under the provisions of any new legislation.

Gangland Killings. (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I did not say anything, and Deputy Rabbitte continuously tries to twist things-----

Gangland Killings. (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: -----and say that, and he is patently wrong.

Gangland Killings. (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I have to listen to what I regard as claptrap from the people opposite who know right well that I do not prosecute-----

Gangland Killings. (4 Feb 2010)

Dermot Ahern: -----nor do I have-----