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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Correspondence (11 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 200. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding formal correspondence to Ministers; if he will confirm that all communications sent which are deemed to have come to the Ministers' attention are dealt with in an appropriate manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11742/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (11 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 433. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 04 March 2014, if he will clarify which institution of the State, or to whom, a member of the public may submit a complaint in relation to the performance and function of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission; if the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission is answerable or is open...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Quality Issues (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 5. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ask Roscommon County Council to provide bottled water for the residents of the county as compensation for not being able to drink the council's supply for which the public pays through direct taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12211/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Quality Issues (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: I wish to know whether the Department will provide money to Roscommon County Council to provide free bottled water for people already paying through the general taxation system for their water.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Quality Issues (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: I thank the Minister. In the meantime, while people are waiting for all this to happen, I ask the Minister to provide funding to the council, or whoever he wants, to get water to people in my county. It is unsustainable for people who are already put to the pin of their collar to have to spend €500 to €600 a year on water. The Minister might think that is excessive but when...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Quality Issues (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: I agree.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Quality Issues (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: I repeat, in the meantime they have to buy this water, so can something be done for them? They do it in other countries where there is a problem with water. They did it in Galway when the water was polluted there. People were given water, but they are not being given it in County Roscommon. I am reluctant to say the water is so bad because it puts people off coming but, at the same time,...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: I will be echoing many of the sentiments expressed by the previous two speakers. It is stomach-churning to listen to the authorities in the United States of America and the Taoiseach refer to the sovereignty of states and talk about how borders should be respected. One does not need to be a genius to realise that this is hypocrisy of the highest order. The people who are preaching to us...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: The Government has convinced the EU that things are going well. It must be noted that between the third quarter of 2011 - when unemployment, in absolute numbers, was at its highest - and the fourth quarter in 2013, the numbers in unemployment fell by 75,000. However, the number of working age people emigrating was 116,000, while the number on labour activation schemes - training,...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: Will we bring the warmonger in to do it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: In ten years' time it is possible that the idea of signage as we now know it will no longer be relevant, given the development of electronic devices as the equivalent of Moses's tablets being brought down from the mountain and with self-driving cars on the way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: We can have a pint on the way to the pub in our self-drive cars.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: It would be an excellent opportunity to bring the topic into this building for discussion. At times I feel as though being a whistleblower in this country is like the cartoons I used to watch as a child. In one cartoon there was a dog whistle which nobody but the dog could hear. I wonder whether there is a certain pitch of whistle that is never heard in this country. Dr. Horgan has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: While I welcome the debating of this issue in any forum, I see the logic in recommending that it be sent to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality and the Joint Committee on Health and Children. From the point of view of the petitioner, it shows that it definitely was not a waste of time contacting the committee - in fact, it was anything but. If, as a result, it is discussed...

Other Questions: Job Protection (13 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: It is only about 70 miles away.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (25 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that US soldiers carry their rifles while on board planes using Shannon Airport; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a US Air Force plane which landed at Shannon Airport was equipped with a 30 mm cannon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13612/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (25 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 403. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 214 and 215 of 10 December 2013, if he will clarify whether he was referring to the Athleague Flood Alleviation Committee, or to the River Suck Joint Drainage Committee in his answers; if he will explain what the €270,000 was spent on; if he will give an assurance that any future...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (25 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 518. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason single mothers who want to work cannot work under the JobsPlus scheme (details supplied), as they are not considered unemployed until their child is of seven years of age and are thus the recipient of a single parent payment and deemed not eligible to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13519/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Exports (25 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the report study on the viability and cost-benefit analysis for Ireland of exporting renewable electricity (RES-E) using the Co-operation Mechanism in Directive 2009/28/EC has not been made public; his views that under the Aarhus Convention this report should be made available to the public and to the groups...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Planning Issues (25 Mar 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 622. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will attend the oral hearing into the Government's latest energy project for north Mayo, the proposed Owenniny and Cluddaun wind farms which proposes 160 turbines larger than any existing onshore in Ireland, or the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13707/14]