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Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Transport 21 is imbalanced.

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Does the Taoiseach agree with them?

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The Corrib gas field will not help for long.

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I have heard what everybody else is doing but not what the Government proposes to do, apart from planning a road which does not even feature in the Transport 21 plan. Did the Taoiseach hear President George Bush's State of the Union address in which he stated the following? Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy and here we have a serious problem. America is addicted to oil...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The first step to recovery for any addict is to admit the problem. Will the Taoiseach admit, as a start, that he is addicted to oil?

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: This is a serious matter and the Taoiseach will pay heavily for not dealing with it. He may recall — I was not born at the time — that T. K. Whitaker set out his vision for Ireland in the late 1950s. The Taoiseach now celebrates that vision through the Celtic tiger. Does he agree that we need to move beyond petroleum and show the same vision as T. K. Whitaker if we are to benefit in the...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: They are not involved in the partnership process.

Official Travel. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Croatia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1230/06]

Official Travel. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the foreign visits which he has planned for 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1233/06]

Official Travel. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent official visit to India. [1749/06]

Official Travel. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: On the Taoiseach's trip to India, I want to follow up what I asked yesterday. The Brussels summit in the summer had a statement about climate change. It referred to the Gleneagles plan of action with its emphasis on technology transfer. It also referred to taking up the dialogue of technological co-operation with the likes of India, China, Russia and others. Did the Taoiseach take the...

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach obviously has not been on the M50 recently. On a very serious related matter, that is, the 39 road deaths in January and the legislation needed to address the problem, the Taoiseach just told Deputy Kenny that there virtually is random testing and that things can happen as they stand.

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Will the legislation, which I understand is promised, be introduced more urgently than otherwise might be the case given that the death rate for January, if it is to remain at this level, implies there will be 60 more deaths by the end of this year than there were last year? When will that urgent legislation be published?

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: As I stated today in respect of the electricity market, Deloitte & Touche published a report before Christmas which is sitting on the desk of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. Can the Taoiseach envisage when the single electricity market Bill will be brought forward? Will the report be made available in advance of publication of the legislation, given that it is...

Written Answers — Light Rail Project: Light Rail Project (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the likely level of disruption on Luas services due to repair work on the bonding material applied on a certain section of the track; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3308/06]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the relevant legal agreement and other arrangements entered into by the State or its agents for the accommodation of US military personnel stopping overnight in the mid-west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3451/06]

Written Answers — Compensation Payments: Compensation Payments (1 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 286: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if copies of documentation from her Department proving the payment of £17,050 to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 in May 1978 by way of compensation for reactors being removed from their herd in 1977 can be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3381/06]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss an issue of urgent public importance, namely, the application by BASF to use a five acre plot in County Meath to grow genetically modified potatoes, the long term knock-on effects of such a prospect on the marketing of Irish conventional and organic food produce, the need for the Government to explain why it is failing to...

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: There is probably more interest in the House in promised Ministers than promised legislation. Will there be an announcement of ministerial positions before the weekend or will it be later? If it is intended to discuss the Roads (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, will there be a new Minister for Transport given that there appears to be a rebellion in Fianna Fáil over the Minister, Deputy...

Order of Business. (2 Feb 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Has the Roads (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill which was promised in 2004 been abandoned and has it been replaced by an off the top of one's head roads plan? Will the building societies amendment Bill be introduced soon given that it was promised for this session in January 2004? There is a need to examine regulation in the financial institutions sector and that Bill would give us an...