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Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (28 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I will accept the promise on guidelines and I will not press the amendment.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (28 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I move amendment No. 16: In page 4, line 46, to delete "shall" and substitute "may be required to". This amendment deals with the documentation. There is a degree of overkill in requiring all imprisoned applicants to submit all of their documentation, as many of them will not be in a position to do so. The amendment would make the furnishing of such information discretionary rather than...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (28 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will continue to pay home tuition grants to parents of children with autism who wish to use those grants to provide an ABA educational programme for their children delivered by persons with ABA, rather than education qualifications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40135/06]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (28 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost to her Department of buying and leasing prefabs in the 2005 to 2006 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40136/06]

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to express my appreciation to the Minister for holding the fort yesterday when I was unavoidably absent and, thus, unable to move amendment No. 30a. I wish to speak to that amendment now, however, along with the others being taken with it. For some time, the Labour Party has sought an extension to the deadline for people submitting amendments to the draft register. Given the...

Noise Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share time with Deputies Naughten, Gormley and Eamon Ryan.

Noise Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party supports the Bill. I compliment my constituency colleague, Deputy Cuffe, for bringing it before the House. It is not the first time this has been debated here. I recall a number of occasions during debates on planning and environmental protection Bills when amendments were proposed to provide for some form of regulation of noise pollution. My most recent efforts were on...

Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (29 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if Ireland's 2006 annual residue monitoring plan was approved by the European Commission on 18 October 2006; and if she will provide this Deputy with a copy of same. [40545/06]

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party opposes the motion. It does not do so because of its intrinsic merits, which the party might support in a different context. If there was general compliance with Ireland's Kyoto commitments, some of the benign purposes for which this motion is intended might recommend themselves to the party. However, Labour Members oppose it because they wish to flag what is happening in...

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: ——and returns enthusiastically converted to the need to do something about it. Let us tell the Minister the history of this. The Kyoto Agreement was reached in 1997, the year Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats returned to Government. The Minister has had the entire life of the Kyoto Agreement — almost ten years — to get it right and he has not. He now faces a situation...

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: If he does not succeed, it must be found somewhere or it must be paid for. Of course, the 3.6 million tonnes a year in allowances which the Minister is already committing to buy will also need to be increased if he does not achieve the reductions of 8 million tonnes a year which he hopes to achieve through all of the various worthy measures he outlined. My difficulty with him not achieving...

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: ——that it really does not matter; we can continue to pollute but because we now have money we can buy the right to pollute from poorer people. Carbon allowances and credits come from a framework whereby we have three worlds on this globe. A quarter of the world's population does not have electricity. These are poor people who are not contributing to global warming through carbon...

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government's attitude is to say that since we are not contributing much to pollution anyway, we can buy our way out of it. There are two problems with that, however. The first is that buying our way out of it will cost Irish taxpayers a lot of money. At a conservative estimate it will cost €500 million between now and 2012, which might otherwise be available for hospitals, schools,...

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has not done enough.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask the Chair to call on the Minister to withdraw that comment. It is not a parliamentary comment.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The comment relating to me and Deputy Cuffe is not parliamentary language. I demand that it be withdrawn.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask for the remark to be withdrawn. The Minister called me a hypocrite and he should not be permitted to call me that. Will the Chair require him to withdraw it?

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the Minister going to withdraw the remark?

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: A point of order, this is a personal attack and I want the remark withdrawn. The Minister may make any kind of political charge he wants about me and I will respond. If he wants to raise some issue relating to my constituency, he can raise it here and I will respond to it, but he should not come in and accuse me of being a hypocrite.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I made no personal attack on the Minister.