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Written Answers — An Teanga Gaeilge: An Teanga Gaeilge (9 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 171: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an mbeadh sé sásta cothrom na hinfheistíochta a chur ar fáil don Ghaeilge chun lárionad cultúrtha na Gaeilge a thógáil sa phríomhchathair mar chuid de Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge de chuid an Rialtais; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [34282/08]

Written Answers — Conradh na Gaeilge: Conradh na Gaeilge (9 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 173: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an gcuirfidh sé tacaíocht agus maoiniú ar fáil le gur féidir le Conradh na Gaeilge an feachtas GLAC LEIS, le daoine óga ach go háirithe a spreagadh agus a chumasú chun leas a bhaint as na seirbhísí Gaeilge, á n-ofráil ag an earnáil phoiblí a bhuíochas le hAcht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003, a fhorbairt...

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (14 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the balance of the €28 million that was earmarked for sheep farming announced in 2007 will be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34682/08]

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Cad mar gheall ar Thóraí?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: An mbeidh sé á chur ar fáil i mbliana nó an bhliain seo chugainn?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: The Government is attacking the old people of this country.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: The Government abandoned the old people of the country.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: We heard that before.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: And the Deputy has not been assassinated.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: A mutual friend.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: I wish to share time with my good colleague, Deputy Sheehan. It attacks my patience to its elastic limits to listen to Deputy Fahey and his party giving lectures about political responsibility to members of the Fine Gael Party. Like Deputy Fahey, I have been a Member long enough to know what it is to be both politically responsible and politically irresponsible. I was a backbencher during...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: First, the strategy implemented the programme for Government on which Fine Gael had fought that year's election and we were honourable enough to support the strategy. Second, a minority Government was in power following the 1987 election and it could not implement a policy without the co-operation of the Opposition. The Government parties have a majority of ten nowadays, which was reduced...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: I am obliged to answer the charges made by Deputy Fahey. Deputy Reilly, my colleague, has been accused of this, that and the other. However, Deputy Martin introduced the free medical card for the over 70s as a political stunt without carrying out negotiations with the doctors, the Department of the Health and Children or the health boards and he underestimated its cost. He has been...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: I am also reminded of another political stunt by a Fianna Fáil Minister in 2003, the so-called decentralisation programme. A total of 54 centres were designated and thousands of civil servants were to be transferred throughout the State. The programme was due to be completed in 2006. Three centres were selected in County Donegal with 250 civil servants to be decentralised to Donegal town...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: A supplementary budget will be introduced in the spring and this time next year the budget deficit will be much more significant. The Government parties have created that deficit and I wonder whether they will be able to address it. If the Government parties address it in a meaningful, constructive and responsible manner, we will support them but if they continue to attack the elderly, the...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: I sat and listened to the Deputy and I had the good manners not to interrupt. At the first opportunity, the Government has increased the pupil-teacher ratio to 28:1 and God knows what it will do over the next few years. This is a broken promise. I had a discussion with the former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, on Raidió na Gaeltachta yesterday morning. In 2002 she...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Deputy Bruton and our education spokesman, Deputy Brian Hayes, were mentioned. In one hour, they identified 32 brutal cuts in education. Some jump out at me. When I see a curtailment in the school building programme, I remember the vocational school in Stranorlar, Finn Valley College, where work has been on the cards since 1979. I think of Gortahork, which has been seeking a new school...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: ——and to the economy of Gaeltacht mná tí from Donegal to Cork and Kerry who are depending on the boys and girls to generate income so that they can keep their families together and educate them in the years to come. It will also be a blow to tourism in the Gaeltacht. Most tourists visiting Gaeltacht areas in Donegal, Galway and elsewhere are the parents, guardians, uncles, aunts,...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Take that.

Written Answers — Electricity Transmission Network: Electricity Transmission Network (29 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made regarding the east-west interconnector project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37217/08]