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Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (3 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Finance the cross-Border bodies that are funded by the Irish State; the cost to the State of each of these bodies in 2007 and 2008; if he will provide this information in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8384/09]

Written Answers — Fishing Vessel Authorisation: Fishing Vessel Authorisation (3 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 409: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of fishing days a company (details supplied) in County Donegal has been allocated in Areas 6A and 7A for 2009; the reason this company has not been informed to date; if he will acknowledge that the owners of this company have been making repayments on their initial outflow since the beginning of 2009; and if he...

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (3 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 434: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will explore ways of alleviating the difficulties that have been imposed on vocational education in County Donegal by the budget 2009 constraints; if he will specifically attempt to minimise the bearing that these cuts will have on front-line services in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8382/09]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the need for An Garda Síochána and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to engage with bank officials, post offices, and credit unions in Border areas in the context of security, on foot of an alarming armed raid on a post office in Carrigans, County Donegal,...

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the commitment he is giving to marine, aquaculture or inshore funding as contained in the new round of partnership funding for coastal communities in view of the new threat to white fish fishing in area six and the imminent threat to ban small boatmen who operate white fish boats of 12 metres or less in size in the...

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: I am delighted with that answer because there is a very simple rationale behind this question. It encompasses the Departments of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Minister's Department, in terms of the partnership money which was set aside for alternative enterprises in coastal communities such as Inishowen. The Government is seeking...

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: ——and hearing Ministers say, "I can create jobs in the morning". Donegal, as a county, can create jobs but the Government is not willing to take responsibility.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: Get rid of the red tape and the nonsense and get people working again, rather than queuing in the dole offices in Buncrana or Letterkenny.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: I am asking the Minister for his indulgence. I apologise to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: I am very angry about this.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: I know it is question time.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: Which we are doing.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: It is not a Second Stage speech.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: I have tabled three of them.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: It related to partnership money.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: What about the marine? The Minister said such money could not be spent on marine or aquaculture projects.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: What about alternative marine projects? What about marine tourism? The Minister should look at the question.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: He is not replying.

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: Will the Minister intervene?

Marine Funding. (4 Mar 2009)

Joe McHugh: I appreciate the Minister's honesty. The question is vague because it encompasses three Departments. It relates to funding by the Minister's Department for alternative marine enterprise. I have a letter, which I will give to the Minister, in which a salmon fisherman outlines how he made a proposal to set up an alternative marine enterprise only to be turned down by a partnership company on...