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Written Answers — May Day Protests: May Day Protests (4 May 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the efforts the Garda Síochána has made to meet with and negotiate with those planning to protest or demonstrate over the May Day bank holiday weekend 2004 in order to reduce the negative impact such protest may have. [12470/04]

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (4 May 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: It is a time for reflection and a time to pause. The science of report writing is a sober one. One must put down one's recommendations on paper quite cautiously and carefully. Section 4.4 of the report, which lists recommendations for action, states quite carefully that we should be quite cautious in proceeding with electronic voting. However, the most damning part of the report is the page...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (4 May 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: I echo the sentiments expressed by Deputy Gilmore and suggest the detailed discussion we might have here is akin to a debate and discussion as to what music should be played on the Titanic. Given that a dramatic decision has been made and a dramatic report has been published, we should not proceed on this basis.

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he intends to consult the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government with a view to amending legislation in order that designated serviced school sites and possibly buildings are provided free of charge to the State as part of the granting of planning permission for all housing developments over a certain...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Minister is trying to give a false impression.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: We favour the Minister's resignation.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Minister is jealous.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: We are the worst country in the world.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Minister is again confused.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Minister called in the bulldozers at Carrickmines.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: I wish to talk about the National Spatial Strategy 2002-2020. Our motion said the Minister had failed to implement a national spatial strategy that properly distributed services, facilities and opportunities throughout the country. However, the Government states that a comprehensive range of measures has been put in place at national, regional and local levels to support the continuing...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy and his colleagues turned the national spatial strategy on its head. Very few of the nine gateways and 11 hubs were selected for locating Government jobs through decentralisation. The latter programme failed miserably to reflect the issues headlined in the national spatial strategy. The Minister says he is implementing it, but when I put specific...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: Each Department is going its merry way, and the national spatial strategy is simply a piece of window dressing to give the impression of joined-up Government thinking, which could not be further from the truth.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: We either have a national spatial strategy or we do not, and a laissez-faire approach to planning or not. If we are to seriously consider the implications of the Kyoto Protocol and the need to put people, premises and communities closer so that people can live, work and relax, we would implement the national spatial strategy instead of having a Government that gives only ad hoc responses. I...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Minister lifted the cap on corporate donations.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Minister should tell his donors that.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: We are still not hearing about the Minister's policies.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: We would like a paper trail.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: Half a rain forest.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Ciarán Cuffe: Yes, it was.