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Written Answers — Undocumented Irish Emigrants: Undocumented Irish Emigrants (5 Nov 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his recent efforts on behalf of the undocumented Irish in the US and the prospects he holds for the action that can be taken in the immediate future. [38563/08]

Written Answers — Army Barracks: Army Barracks (5 Nov 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 317: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Army and civilian personnel employed in Lifford Military Barracks; if his attention has been drawn to the disruption that the closure of the barracks will have on those who are stationed there; if he will re-assess and repeal the decision to close the barracks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38560/08]

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (5 Nov 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 349: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding an application for disadvantaged area aid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and when payment will issue. [38637/08]

Written Answers — Clárú Múinteoirí: Clárú Múinteoirí (5 Nov 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 355: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta an dtuigeann sé an dochar do chás na Gaeilge sa chóras oideachais de bharr an chinnidh atá déanta deireadh a chur leis an liúntas a íoctar le hoidí a oiltear thar lear, cad é costas na scéime gach bliain ó 2000 go dáta agus an ndéanfaidh sé athmhachnamh ar an scéim. [38573/08]

Written Answers — Coláistí Samhraidh Gaeilge: Coláistí Samhraidh Gaeilge (5 Nov 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 356: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta an dtuigeann sé an ghéarchéim i measc coláistí samhraidh Gaeilge de bharr deireadh a chur leis an liúntas ón Roinn a íoctar le gach dalta agus go bhfuil todhchaí cuid de na coláistí i gceist; agus an ndéanfaidh sé athmhachnamh ar an chinneadh agus leanúint le híoc an deontais. [38574/08]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (5 Nov 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 357: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an application has been received from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal for an increase in grant towards the provision of a resource room; if same is being considered; and if its allocation will be approved in order that the school can be brought to a satisfactory and acceptable standard. [38575/08]

Training Programmes: Motion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2008)

Dinny McGinley: It is timely and appropriate that we are discussing this matter in the Dáil on a day when the CSO published its unemployment report and we have broken through the psychological glass ceiling with unemployment at 252,000. As Deputy Connaughton said, 100,000 people have been made unemployed since the last election when the current Government took over with the answer to everything. As far as...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2008)

Dinny McGinley: He would have received a better response had he sought an increase.

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (30 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the appointment of a complaints officer to deal with fishermen's complaints by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority; when this person will be appointed; the terms of their appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37545/08]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (30 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will set out the main effects of budget 2009 in relation to forestry; the revised targets for the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37546/08]

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: The Tánaiste is very touchy this morning.

Written Answers — Electricity Transmission Network: Electricity Transmission Network (29 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made regarding the east-west interconnector project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37217/08]

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: I wish to share time with my good colleague, Deputy Sheehan. It attacks my patience to its elastic limits to listen to Deputy Fahey and his party giving lectures about political responsibility to members of the Fine Gael Party. Like Deputy Fahey, I have been a Member long enough to know what it is to be both politically responsible and politically irresponsible. I was a backbencher during...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: First, the strategy implemented the programme for Government on which Fine Gael had fought that year's election and we were honourable enough to support the strategy. Second, a minority Government was in power following the 1987 election and it could not implement a policy without the co-operation of the Opposition. The Government parties have a majority of ten nowadays, which was reduced...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: I am obliged to answer the charges made by Deputy Fahey. Deputy Reilly, my colleague, has been accused of this, that and the other. However, Deputy Martin introduced the free medical card for the over 70s as a political stunt without carrying out negotiations with the doctors, the Department of the Health and Children or the health boards and he underestimated its cost. He has been...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: I am also reminded of another political stunt by a Fianna Fáil Minister in 2003, the so-called decentralisation programme. A total of 54 centres were designated and thousands of civil servants were to be transferred throughout the State. The programme was due to be completed in 2006. Three centres were selected in County Donegal with 250 civil servants to be decentralised to Donegal town...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: A supplementary budget will be introduced in the spring and this time next year the budget deficit will be much more significant. The Government parties have created that deficit and I wonder whether they will be able to address it. If the Government parties address it in a meaningful, constructive and responsible manner, we will support them but if they continue to attack the elderly, the...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: I sat and listened to the Deputy and I had the good manners not to interrupt. At the first opportunity, the Government has increased the pupil-teacher ratio to 28:1 and God knows what it will do over the next few years. This is a broken promise. I had a discussion with the former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, on Raidió na Gaeltachta yesterday morning. In 2002 she...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: Deputy Bruton and our education spokesman, Deputy Brian Hayes, were mentioned. In one hour, they identified 32 brutal cuts in education. Some jump out at me. When I see a curtailment in the school building programme, I remember the vocational school in Stranorlar, Finn Valley College, where work has been on the cards since 1979. I think of Gortahork, which has been seeking a new school...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Dinny McGinley: ——and to the economy of Gaeltacht mná tí from Donegal to Cork and Kerry who are depending on the boys and girls to generate income so that they can keep their families together and educate them in the years to come. It will also be a blow to tourism in the Gaeltacht. Most tourists visiting Gaeltacht areas in Donegal, Galway and elsewhere are the parents, guardians, uncles, aunts,...