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- Written Answers — Food Agency Co-operation Council: Food Agency Co-operation Council (29 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of meetings of the Food Agency Co-Operation Council in 2004 and 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12052/06]
- Written Answers — Export Refunds: Export Refunds (29 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether the removal of the current pre-payment procedure for export refunds at EU level is the first step to the complete abolition of export refunds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12017/06]
- Written Answers — Swimming Pool Projects: Swimming Pool Projects (29 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has schemes through which a plan could be developed to take over a swimming pool which has been an enormous asset to the community but in which the religious order which own it wish to divest its interest, with the possible participation in that plan of local swimming pool clubs, local schools and the local authority (details...
- Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: I want to express sympathy on behalf of the Fine Gael Party to the families of those who died in the boating tragedy off Wexford. I want to raise two matters on the Order of Business, the first being the matter raised earlier in the House by Deputy O'Dowd, which is that is that we find ourselves facing a major change in respect of Sellafield. The present legislation under the Freedom of...
- Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: My question is concerned with freedom of information. The position is that Deputies have been refused information on Sellafield by the Department on grounds of national security. We have issues of intimate concern to the security of our people about which Deputies are very concerned being denied under alleged freedom of information exemptions. There is also the situation whereby the...
- Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: We were promised legislation three times in 2005 on the inspection of private nursing homes and that has failed to be delivered each time. Will the Minister say when we will see this legislation? We are increasingly reliant on these nursing homes. We have also learned today that a hospital has had its operations suspended. When will we see the medical practitioners Bill because there is...
- Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: My question was about the House not being able to get information which is being denied under the Freedom of Information Act.
- Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: It is because the Minister must by order change the freedom of information coverage, for example, as it pertains to the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland.
- Decentralisation Programme. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the implications of the Labour Court ruling that the FÃS management move to confine promotions in head office only to those willing to decentralise is in breach of existing agreements and in conflict with the voluntary nature of the decentralisation programme; and the options he plans to make available for staff in State agencies who...
- Decentralisation Programme. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: In the context of FÃS, what specific offers are being made to staff who, in almost 99% of cases, wish to remain in Dublin? What is the offer on the table in terms of the options for those who clearly wish to stay in Dublin? What negotiations are ongoing between the Department of Finance and SIPTU, which represents the vast majority of the workers involved, with a view to trying to find a...
- Decentralisation Programme. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: The Minister is ignoring the issue. Nothing he said addressed it. He has not suggested meeting SIPTU, for example, in respect of FÃS, although I read in the local newspapers that the Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, stated he would love to meet SIPTU to deal with FÃS. There is nothing on the table for FÃS workers in this industrial dispute. In any industrial dispute there must be some...
- Decentralisation Programme. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: Government is the central body that will say what is going to happen.
- Decentralisation Programme. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: What is the Minister offering in this creative leap?
- Decentralisation Programme. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: Offaly would not be higher in the Minister's mind than any other location.
- Decentralisation Programme. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: The Minister is not doing badly.
- Fiscal Policy. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: On a point of order, I wish to raise the matter of the refusal and transfer of a priority question and a substitute question that I submitted. One question sought the Minister's view on trends in the housing market on which the Central Bank has commented widely, but that question was transferred to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local government, which is not acceptable. The...
- Fiscal Policy. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: The Chair has a function in disallowing a question. The disallowing of my question was incorrect because the Government has a crucial role in deciding howââ
- Fiscal Policy. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: I will.
- Prevention of Corruption. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: I am surprised the Minister's main concern appears to be that legislating for whistleblowing on a broad basis would undermine Ministers' policies. This is a new argument. I find it hard to believe it is beyond the wit of parliamentary draughtsmen to draw up provisions that would provide for whistleblowing while ensuring they have no basis for undermining ministerial policies. Notwithstanding...
- Fiscal Policy. (30 Mar 2006)
Richard Bruton: I welcome the Minister's reply but, given that he has provided for the ex-ante evaluation of projects costing more than â¬30 million, does he agree that PPARS as it was originally envisaged would not have been evaluated under that rule? Punchestown would not have been evaluated, even though it was a notorious project and cost a great deal of State money. E-voting as it was initially brought...