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Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: If the Minister of State agrees, I suggest this amendment be recommitted to allow us discuss it as if it were a Committee Stage amendment. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: I move amendment No. 6: In page 4, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: 3.—(1) For the purposes of section 10(3) of the Radio and Television Act 1988, an advertisement is directed towards a political end if and only if it is directed towards one or more of the following purposes namely: (a) to promote or oppose, directly or indirectly, the interests of a political party, a...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: I am grateful to the Minister of State, the Chair and the House for facilitating the teasing out of this issue but the Minister of State's reply makes matters a great deal worse. What it really suggests is that it is proposed to transfer the ambiguity, lack of clarity and narrow definition into a more general regime which will fall not only on independent broadcasters and those under the...

Schools Building Projects. (22 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak about certain schools. I encourage the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ahern, not to read out his self-congratulatory set of paragraphs but rather to commit to speaking to the member of Cabinet with responsibility, who might, unusually, provide clear timescales in respect of what I have to say. A number of the schools in question are Irish...

Schools Building Projects. (22 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Will the Minister of State get a few definite dates for that litany of schools?

Schools Building Projects. (22 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Tell her it is like a mantra, it is beginning to bore me.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (22 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has entered into consultation with the colleges of education in order to increase the number of teachers who will be available to address the projected increase in primary school population over the next ten years and also to reduce class sizes to European norms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10714/07]

Written Answers — Teacher Training: Teacher Training (22 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of teachers who graduated from all colleges of education including on-line courses and postgraduate courses in 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10713/07]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (27 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will direct ComReg to ensure that the universal service obligation for telecoms services is fully upheld and that no residential public service telephone network provision requests is not granted within a maximum three month time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11362/07]

Written Answers — Broadcasting Legislation: Broadcasting Legislation (27 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the Broadcasting Bill which emerged from the recent widespread e-consultation process will be published before the general election; if he will issue a directive to the BCI to ensure that general campaigning advertising such as the recent Trócaire campaign will not be subjected to censorship; and if he...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Question 559: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the work that has been initiated with regard to the necessary upgrading, specifically extension, of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; the work which has been carried out at this school and the work that remains; when this work will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11308/07]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (28 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: In accordance with the terms of Standing Order 31, I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the following matter of public interest: the urgent need for the Government to act with swiftness in order to ameliorate the deteriorated and unsafe condition of Galway's water supply that is causing intolerable distress to families in the city and various parts of the county; the need for...

Written Answers — Sports Stadium: Sports Stadium (28 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to recent comments from the president of the GAA that the association is disappointed and unhappy at the Government's refusal to allow gaelic games to be played in the proposed sports stadium in Tallaght; his views on these comments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11730/07]

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (28 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Question 245: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in order to ensure the delivery of the most appropriate teaching skills in the teaching of English as a second language, she will ensure the religious ethos exemption will not be used in such a way as to impede the recruitment, establishment or promotion of those with exceptional skills who have come into the area of teaching,...

Order of Business (Resumed) (29 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: The Taoiseach undertook on Tuesday to contact the relevant Minister and inform me when Report Stage of the Water Services Bill 2003 will be taken, but I have received no communication from him.

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position on the roll-out of BreastCheck nationwide, per centre; the latest cost estimates of each centre; if she expects the roll-out will be on time and within 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12065/07]

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: That was my understanding.

Water Supply Contamination. (29 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Question : To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to outline the steps he is proposing to take to deal with the continuing and escalating threat to public health in Galway arising from contamination of the public water supply by the cryptosporidiosis parasite; the further steps he is taking to ensure that the people of the Galway area will have access to clean...

Water Supply Contamination. (29 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: Tá mé an-bhuíoch díot, a Chathaoirligh, as ucht seans a thabhairt dom an cheist seo a chuir chuig an Aire. Tá tábhacht ag baint le truailliú an scéim uisce i gContae na Gaillimhe agus tá ceisteanna le freagairt maidir leis. Tá sé níos tábhachtaí fós iad a chur chuige chun leigheas a fháil ar an scéal chomh sciopaí agus is féidir. I will list a number of questions. It is...

Water Supply Contamination. (29 Mar 2007)

Michael D Higgins: There is a considerable problem with trust and information on when, for example, this problem was first discovered. Taking into account the 2004 guidelines and the study distributed, the State accepts responsibility for the provision of clean drinking water. Responsibility for management and compliance is divested to local authorities. Will the Minister tomorrow ensure the city council puts...