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Written Answers — Registered Moneylenders: Registered Moneylenders (30 Apr 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of registered moneylenders operating in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17289/09]

Written Answers — Drug Addiction: Drug Addiction (30 Apr 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of registered heroin addicts in the Cork City and Cork County areas in each year since 2000 to date in 2009; the number of such registered addicts who have been incarcerated at any time since 2004 to date in 2009; the prisons in which they were incarcerated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17285/09]

Written Answers — Electronic Voting Machines: Electronic Voting Machines (30 Apr 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 215: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the new information which prompted him to make his recent decision to scrap electronic voting machines; if he received a report on the Electoral Commission which examined the e-voting issue as stated in the Houses of the Oireachtas on 28 October 2008; if he will make that report available to the House; and...

Special Educational Needs: Motion. (6 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I wish to share my time with Deputies Ó Snodaigh, Ó Caoláin, Upton and McManus.

Special Educational Needs: Motion. (6 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Deputy Hayes for bringing this motion before the House and share with him the Labour Party's concern regarding the withdrawal of classes for children with mild general learning disabilities. The decision by the Minister, Deputy O'Keeffe, to cut special teacher support in over 100 schools is a clear indication that vulnerable children are a target of this callous Government. As the...

Social and Affordable Housing. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 2: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the anticipated overall cost over a 20-year period of the scheme for local authorities to lease new houses for social housing; the anticipated cost per unit of a 20-year lease; the mechanism that will be used to determine the rate at which property will be leased; the way the rental income from such property...

Social and Affordable Housing. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister of State for his response, which indicates that the average lease arrangement will cost €10,000 per year, which works out at €200,000 over the 20-year lease period and that the rent accrued during this period will be offset against the maintenance of the properties. Based on a rent of €100 per week on the differential, this goes into sums of nearly €100,000 over...

Social and Affordable Housing. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: No, I stated-----

Social and Affordable Housing. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: That amount is for 20,000 houses, but we are only discussing 2,000 houses.

Social and Affordable Housing. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister of State has been flogging that figure for quite some time, but his sums are wrong.

Social and Affordable Housing. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Will the Minister of State confirm in the House that he will spend €400 million in the next 20 years to lease 2,000 houses and that the rent accrued during that period will be ring-fenced for those properties' maintenance?

Social and Affordable Housing. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: That is not the question that I asked.

Social and Affordable Housing. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: The leasing arrangements have no opt-out clauses. They are ten year or 20 year leases. Other schemes are different, but the Minister of State is committing the taxpayer to paying €400 million over 20 years. It is unbelievable and inexplicable that the properties' rents will not be held by the local authorities. Rather, they will be ring-fenced so that the developers can maintain their...

Water Quality. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Very shortly-----

Water Quality. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: No, I am not.

Water Quality. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: I am extremely happy, particularly in view of the fact that I hold a seat in Cork South Central.

Water Quality. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister addressed the Institution of Engineers and flagged as an issue the introduction of domestic water charges. He can make as many statements as he wants at conferences or in schools. However, he is in the House now and he should indicate whether he is in favour of introducing domestic water charges.

Water Quality. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: All I am asking is that the Minister answer the question.

Housing Needs of the Disabled. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: Has the housing adaptation funding of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government been issued to local authorities this week, as this is the fifth month of the year? Can the Minister explain the reason the issuing of this funding to local authorities has delayed into the fifth month of the year?

Housing Needs of the Disabled. (7 May 2009)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister of State made a significant comment here that needs to be cleared up in the House. He stated that the delay in the budget has to do with the Revised Estimates. It is the fifth month of the year. Is the Minister of State stating that the reason for this delay is because of the Revised Estimates? If that is the case, it would mean that the Department was looking at a revised...