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Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Charlie O'Connor is reorganising it. Well done Charlie.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Charlie for President.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: In view of the imminent standing down of the head of the HSE and his replacement by Deputy Charlie O'Connor, as announced this morning——

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: There is legislation promised. It will deal with that as well. The Ceann Comhairle will be glad to know the legislation is promised. I would like to know whether we will have this legislation before Christmas, because we are obviously not going to have it now.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: This is a serious matter and it does require legislation. It entails our coming into the House and changing the current legislation. The two party leaders who spoke previously are correct. Can the Tánaiste indicate when the health and personal social services Bill will be brought into the House so that Members other than Deputy O'Connor can have some say in the issue?

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: So Deputy O'Connor will have to unscramble things.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: In these straitened times, does the Ceann Comhairle not think it would be a good idea for somebody to bring in the financial services regulation Bill? It would be an appropriate time to introduce it.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: No date at all.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: This is my last point and relates to the issue of photographs and so on. Given the marked reluctance of the Green Party Ministers to appear in the House on the Order of Business, I wonder whether they are being forced out, advised to stay out or threatened. In that context——

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: There is legislation promised in this area. It is the protection of persons from enforced disappearance Bill.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: In view of the current emergency I ask the Tánaiste to introduce this legislation to the House as a matter of extreme urgency.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: It might be a good idea, though.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear. We need to know about this.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: It is off the rails.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: It has gone off the rails.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when it is intended to restore the school building programme to the scale indicated in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26052/08]

Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when it is intended to deliver on the pre-election promise to reduce class sizes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26051/08]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the upgrading and refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare are expected to be completed in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26539/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received further documentation or information regarding the proposed new national school facilities at Ardclough, County Kildare; his plans to progress same in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26540/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (3 Jul 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he received an application for large scale capital funding for the provision of proposed new primary school facilities at Straffan, County Kildare; if this matter will be progressed in the next six months in view of the increased population of the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26541/08]