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Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (15 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 528: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department has received tenders for the Castletown-Geoghegan sewerage scheme; if he will give immediate approval to same, details supplied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4970/05]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Second Stage. (16 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: I am glad to have an opportunity to contribute to the debate on behalf of the Labour Party. The Bill provides for a number of measures announced in the budget and details the increases provided in child benefit but, as Deputy Stanton stated, they are still way behind the objective set out in various partnership agreements and fall well short of the solemn promise made by the Fianna Fáil and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Second Stage. (16 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: A public debate has commenced on the social welfare system and what influence it may have had on the proportion of one-parent families. The evidence from the recently published EU survey, to which Deputy Stanton referred, on income and living conditions has highlighted the reality known to most Deputies from their work in their constituencies, which is that single-parent families are most at...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Second Stage. (16 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: Especially the red rose of the Labour Party. According to research carried out by the Vincentian Partnership, community employment earnings have meant the difference for most lone parents on the scheme between buying fresh vegetables and yoghurt for their children and less nutritious food, or between getting into debt on day-to-day living and not. These restrictions only serve to maintain...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2005: Second Stage. (16 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: Yes. As a lawyer, I can understand the rules in this Bill but no one else can. For example, there is a reference to rule 1 in paragraph (A) of Part 2 of the Third Schedule of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 1993, as amended by section 33 of the Social Welfare Act and so on. Will the Minister ever set a bonfire and burn these Acts and provide one decent Act instead? I am trained and paid...

Deportation Orders. (16 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of occasions since June 2002 on which aircraft have been chartered to facilitate the deportation of persons from this country; the total cost involved in such charters; the number of persons deported in this way and the number who were children; the total overall costs involved, including Garda man hours; and if...

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: I compliment my colleague, Deputy Gilmore, on bringing forward this important motion to ensure the Government takes cognisance of the issues and introduces a national waiver scheme in respect of the various domestic refuse charges. The Government should have learned its lesson from today's Supreme Court decision and the electronic voting fiasco over which the Ministers, Deputies Cullen and...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (16 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications to remain in the State received to date from non-national parents of Irish born children; the number of such applications that have been determined to date, giving those granted and those refused; if there is an appeals process in respect of applications turned down; and if he will make a...

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: You are very lucky. I bet you do not regret it now. You are better off with us.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: When will the employment permits Bill be brought before the House? There is a major strike in Mullingar, and I am dealing with a non-national currently residing in this country who is very vulnerable, so much so that when he tried to stand up for his rights, he was sacked on the spot and told to leave his accommodation.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: This type of thing happened to our people in past decades. Are we to stand by and allow non-residents and some of our own——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: It is an absolute scandal of exploitation. That is what is going on in the construction industry. The Tánaiste was the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Why did she bring that——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: To prevent what happened to our people back in the——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: I will not stand for the exploitation of any worker who is paid one third of a wage. I remember being in England when some of those who exploited me on building sites were Irish.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: Now they are doing it again.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: We have been waiting three years. Must we allow people to be treated in this abysmal fashion?

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: I have no wish to leave the House.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: No, I——

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: Will it be on the floor of the House?

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Willie Penrose: With due respect——