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Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (6 Dec 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 501: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the compulsory purchase of public and private lands by the local authority to facilitate the restoration of the harbour at Greystones through a PPP with a company (details supplied) is an inappropriate use of the compulsory purchase order process in view of the fact that the cost of the required works has...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (1 Dec 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department will be consulting with groups representing the elderly and employers when considering the Pension Board's proposal that older persons should be entitled to defer their State pensions until 70 years of age. [37125/05]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has ensured that past grant applications to Údarás na Gaeltachta have been rechecked, in view of the failure of Údarás na Gaeltachta to notice that one such application made in 1998 contained an incorrect address which placed the company in question inside a Gaeltacht area; the steps he has taken to ensure...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of projects that were allocated funding in the first six months of 2005 from dormant accounts in the RAPID region Togher-Mahon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36771/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37028/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the policy which exists in relation to the provision of incontinence pads by the Health Service Executive; the criteria used for assessing same; the position regarding persons who urinate more than the prescribed amount of times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37029/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that a situation regarding a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20, where severely disabled persons primarily cared for in the community by their families and whose medication leads to more frequent urination never have to suffer the indignity of being told there is a quota of pads available, never...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Rhubarb.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I am sitting on the Government benches, as I did when speaking on planning issues, to see if I can keep a straight face while talking about climate change and transport policy.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I am sorry that I cannot do so. The hot air from this side of the House is certainly circulating around the Chamber and not doing the country's future any good. I will talk about transport because the transport sector, at 31%, accounts for the largest share of energy consumption and also contributes to emissions, global warming, acid rain and respiratory diseases, thus putting pressure on our...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: ——living off the resources of today's children and those of future generations to satisfy their selfish electoral ambitions——

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: ——built on a web of untruths or, at least, a collective incompetence of staggering proportions. There has been much hot air throughout this debate but it has been coming from that side of the House. The debate has shown that Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats have no clothes on in terms of the issues of climate change and energy security. We need greater debate. It is a pity all...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I am getting out of here as quickly as possible, a Cheann Comhairle.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: He is moving to higher ground.

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 28: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason the steering committee of the Irish Heritage Trust does not include representatives of kindred bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36675/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when eyesight and hearing testing will be carried out for senior infants at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in the coming year. [36444/05]

Tourism Revenue. (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I have two questions. The first relates to the cross-Border issue raised by Deputy Ó Caoláin. Is there any way, even anecdotally, of devising some form of analysis of the cross-Border figures to show how many people from overseas access the Republic via Northern Ireland as opposed to the many people resident there? They are different demographics and it would be interesting to view those...

Litter Pollution. (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 10: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the distributors of free newspapers should be compelled to make arrangements for recollection and recycling of the paper. [36676/05]

Information Technology Programme. (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: A total of 117 projects were announced under the e-inclusion fund but is the Minister of State aware that vocational education committees run many adult education courses? The cost of paying extra fees to these teachers has been passed directly to the people attending the courses, including senior citizens. The age limit for defining a senior citizen has been increased by ten years making it...

Tourism Revenue. (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Does the Minister of State acknowledge that irrespective of whether one calculates the figures using the consumer price index or, as I did, by making a rough estimate of the inflation rate in a given year, the result will show that tourism expenditure has not increased over the rate of inflation? Does he agree that this raises serious questions, particularly given the threat posed by the...