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Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (18 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 620: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the details of the forthcoming legislation her Department started in 2002 to provide for a statutory basis for the appeals against decisions to permit afforestation. [29191/05]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (18 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 632: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to resolve the situation where farmers, having paid a levy on bale wrap plastic, have had no service where proper waste management of plastics is a condition of REPS payments; and the measures she will take to restore the service. [29442/05]

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the OECD Report on Regulatory Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25212/05]

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: On regulatory reform, has the Government a definition of the role of a regulator in the sense of whether he or she will be primarily a status quo caretaker or an agent for change, for example, a transformer, as one might say, in the case of the energy regulator, to a less carbon intensive energy system in this country? Does the Government have a view of where the driver for change will be? Is...

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I will take the opportunity because I see the line Minister is listening carefully, but I want to ask the Taoiseach specifically because in his reply he said that the regulatory impact analysis was to look at costs. I want to know what he meant by that. If one abolishes the groceries order, the cost is high in terms of loss of small-scale retailers and food producers and I want to know...

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Is it only costs to consumers?

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Not everybody.

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: His is the lead role.

Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: No harm in a reality check.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Third time lucky. I seek the adjournment of the House under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, to address the latest example of fraudulent behaviour among some construction companies which, in spite of being in receipt of State contracts, refuse to pay sub-contractors, and the need for the Government — a Government of low standards and vested interests —...

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Does the Taoiseach find that acceptable?

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I would like to ask about another fraudulent document. I was not successful, obviously, when I requested the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the matter. Given that companies can fold and then re-open without paying their bills and brazen out legal cases so they can bankrupt subcontractors, it seems the prompt payments legislation needs to be amended.

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: No publication date has been indicated for the planned company law legislation, but is there any chance that it will be brought forward in the near future? At least then we might be able to have a debate on the matter.

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I would also like to know whether the Government intends to amend the prompt payments legislation.

Order of Business. (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: In that case, the Government should amend the prompt payments legislation.

Draft Animal Remedies Regulations 2005: Motion (Resumed). (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Green Party supports wholeheartedly the Fine Gael motion which ties in closely with an adjournment matter I raised last week on the matter of dairy farmers in my constituency and the issues affecting them, not least the demise in their numbers from approximately 200 in the 1960s to the remaining 22 that are hanging on for dear life in the face of a fast rising cost base and ruthless...

Draft Animal Remedies Regulations 2005: Motion (Resumed). (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The public was fooled twice.

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (19 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 275: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if consideration is being given by the Government to introducing or amending legislation (details supplied) for the purpose of making the Garda Síochána subject to sections 15 and 16 only of the Freedom of Information Act 1997 as amended. [29599/05]

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Like the other party leaders and the Minister for Finance, I too wish to express solidarity with the family of Mr. Rory Carroll and take seriously the advice of the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the matter be dealt with in a way that the Department of Foreign Affairs can best determine for the security of Mr. Carroll. We respect that advice and hope the release will be swift. On promised...

Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I do.