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Order of Business. (18 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: I am glad my name is on the list. With regard to section D of the Government's legislative programme, more than half a dozen Bills have been published and an order made for Second Stage in each case but no debate in the House has yet happened. The first of those Bills was published in 2002, which is a four year delay. It is an important Bill in terms of the growing levels of personal debt in...

Address by the Prime Minister of Australia: Motions. (18 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: On a point of order, why are the two motions being taken together? Some of us are happy to agree to No. 16c but not to No. 16d.

Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (18 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will explain the potential in the speciality food sector following her statement on 11 May 2006; and the way in which the Government can be of assistance to the speciality food sector which wants Ireland declared a genetically modified organism free island with regard to seed, crop and food generally. [18752/06]

Written Answers — Farm Costs: Farm Costs (18 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the way in which farming will have to change as fossil fuel costs rise sharply in response to the global peak in oil production making the cost of machinery and chemicals unaffordable in years to come. [18753/06]

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance if the vehicle registration tax relief for flexible fuel vehicles and the excise relief for biofuels measures announced in the 2006 budget have been introduced; the number who have applied for each of the measures; the number of approvals granted in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19446/06]

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: The Minister is basically saying that, under the first measure, 12 vehicles have been granted tax relief and, under the second, no additional tax relief has been granted. Does this not give the lie to the fact that these are not just green veneer measures in what the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government described as the greenest budget ever? Given the history of...

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: The excise relief for biofuel measures. That has already been the subject of a pilot scheme measure, and not a very successful one because of the limitations placed on the scheme by the Minister's officials. That took 18 months to secure approval from the European Commission. After making a subsequent announcement to extend that scheme, the Minister says the process of getting the EC to...

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Where is the evidence? Why has it not begun since the Budget Statement or since the approval of the Finance Act?

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Given ever-increasing energy prices, these types of initiatives are not even toe in the water measures. If the Minister is serious about trying to transfer energy dependence from imported and fossil fuels, his officials should be taking a more proactive role in these measures. Do the VRT relief measures for flexible fuel vehicles apply to motors imported by individuals rather than the...

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: The Minister knew that.

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: It took 18 months the last time.

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: I thank the Minister for telling me what my job is. Part of my job is keeping him accountable for promises he made in this House.

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: He has not been living up to those promises.

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: There has only been approval for 12 vehicles in five months and no applications for the second scheme.

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: If the Minister announces a measure in the House, it is incumbent on him to encourage the take-up and use of it. He is willing enough to see property tax relief being used. Why is he not willing to see green tax measures being taken up?

Tax Code. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: I put it to the Minister that it is because the vested interests he represents are not represented by people who produce biofuels or biofuel vehicles. If he were serious about measures such as these, he would put incentives in place. I asked the Minister what type of take-up would be in existence by the time of the next budget. He also told the House there had been 12 approvals, but I asked...

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: How about Birr?

Leaders' Questions. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: What programmes? What weapons of mass destruction?

Drug Abuse: Motion. (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: The motion is commendable and on the face of it there should not be anything in it with which anyone in the House could take issue, but such is the knee-jerk nature of our politics that the Government has seen fit to table an amendment to the motion commending itself and indicating that it is doing all it can with regard to this problem. This is an attitude of whistling past the graveyard...

Written Answers — Price Inflation: Price Inflation (23 May 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the action he intends to take to address the negative impact of the significant increase in the rate of inflation for the fourth month running; if it is not timely for more State intervention in view of the fact that increases have been driven largely by higher energy costs leading to price increases in sectors that are largely controlled by the...