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Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (25 May 2004)

Noel Grealish: Question 335: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of taxpayers' money that has been invested in Galway airport since its foundation; the value for money audits and budgetary checks that are currently in place; the Government's position on the proposed management buyout of the airport; if this goes ahead, if the taxpayers will be able to recoup the money invested; and if he will make...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Noel Grealish: Everyone was shouting at him.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Noel Grealish: I support the Government's proposal on citizenship. The reasons we need this amendment to the Constitution are straightforward. Our current citizenship law needs to be changed. Under our present law, citizenship is being given to people with little or no connection to Ireland or to its people. Such people will in turn be able to give Irish citizenship to their children and grandchildren. It...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Noel Grealish: The alternative would be to hold a referendum on citizenship at some other time. This would involve extra cost. It would probably involve a lower turn-out. Worst of all, there would probably be a greater danger of racist tendencies and unthinking abusiveness surfacing if the referendum were held on a stand-alone basis than if it were held on the same day as local and European elections where...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Noel Grealish: If we were to take the course of action recommended by the Opposition we would wait and allow still more people without any real connection with Ireland or the Irish people to confer automatic citizenship on their children; allow the overcrowded situation in our maternity hospitals to continue; keep the door open for non-EU citizens living in other EU states to come here and to use their...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (10 Feb 2004)

Noel Grealish: Question 435: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he envisages that work will be carried out on the Carraroe group sewerage scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3742/04]

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (10 Feb 2004)

Noel Grealish: Question 437: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he envisages work to be carried out on the Carraroe water scheme as the current water supply is being contaminated by affluent from the nearby sewerage scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3748/04]