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Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The building control Bill will be taken later this year.

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The legislation applies to those in public institutions or beds that have been contracted by public institutions.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Government is anxious to ensure the individuals affected and their families or their estates are repaid as quickly, efficiently and as fairly as possible. As the Deputy acknowledged in the number of questions he asked, this is a complex and mammoth task because we are talking about approximately 275,000 people. Clearly, the Statute of Limitations cannot apply to anybody who was not of...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: It will be necessary to introduce a Supplementary Estimate this year. Clearly we will need to see the nature of what will be involved this year before we decide when to do that. Regarding the remarks of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, clearly the money that will need to be repaid is money that could be used for other matters. There will be no cutbacks in the Estimate for the health...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The matters that came to light last week are grave and very serious. They fundamentally alter many matters. In the first instance, I congratulate the Garda Síochána in defence of democracy. The Government speaks with one voice on these matters and it is important that it should. The reason for the breakdown in the talks process before Christmas was, as I said in the House, that some were...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I assume that anyone elected to this House will abide by the Constitution, and will support and recognise the Garda Síochána and the Army. Other issues on funding exist. For example I would not like it to remain possible for some people to launder money overseas and take it back into this jurisdiction, perhaps as part of their fundraising activities. We need to examine many issues...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I would like to acknowledge all of that, but I will certainly not engage in a convenient fiction for the purpose of responding to Deputy Ó Caoláin. The reality is that many members of Sinn Féin, perhaps all the Deputies from that party, do not believe it is a crime to murder a mother and did not believe it was a crime to murder Detective Garda Jerry McCabe or to attempt to murder Detective...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: Sinn Féin is the only party in this House that can take away the guns because nobody else has guns.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: It is in the hands of Sinn Féin.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: If its members want to get the guns out of Irish politics, it is their decision.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I would like to acknowledge that huge efforts have been made by many people during the peace process. Nobody has made a greater effort than the Taoiseach and many of the parties in this House, including Deputy Ó Caoláin's party. We need to go much further if we want to achieve success, which could have been achieved last December if Sinn Féin and its associates had been prepared to sign up...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: ——in all its forms, in line with the Good Friday Agreement.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: When Deputy Ó Snodaigh's election agent was convicted, he attacked the Special Criminal Court.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I do not think that is compatible with membership of this House.

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I have concluded.

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: It is proposed to take No. 10, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of a proposal that section 17A of the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 shall continue in force for the period ending on 8 March 2006; No. 16, Disability Bill 2004 — Second Stage (resumed); and No. 17, Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad] — Second Stage (resumed). It is...

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Government decided in spring 2000 to establish the Dunne inquiry which began work in March 2001. That will be four years ago next month. It has cost €20 million. We had hoped to have a report by the end of December but that did not happen. The Government has decided that 31 March is the final date for that inquiry in that form. In the event that there is no report by then, it will be a...

Order of Business. (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The matter can be kept under review. I suggest that the Whips discuss it. There is an ongoing sensitive Garda investigation and there was a recent debate on Northern Ireland so it is a matter of establishing whether questions to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform put in the normal way or some other format is the appropriate way to deal with the matters the Deputies wish to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 37 and 38 together. The category of person who will receive refunds under the ex gratia payment scheme, in respect of payments deducted from them for publicly-funded longstay care in facilities run by former health boards or private nursing homes, solely by virtue of a contractual arrangement with a former health board, comprises fully eligible persons,...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (17 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: Under the terms of the voluntary hospitals superannuation scheme, ex gratia retirement benefits are payable to non-pensionable staff in voluntary hospitals. All part-time non-pensionable employees, who did not contribute to a pension scheme, with at least five years service qualify for this gratuity, calculated at one week's pay for each year of service up to 15 years and two week's pay for...