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- Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: Is it fair to force rural communities to spend more time in isolation-----
- Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: -----due to cutbacks in rural transport?
- Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: There most definitely are.
- Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: The Deputy should speak to my constituents in Longford-Westmeath. There are plenty of cutbacks. The Deputy need not get angry. The Government did a U-turn on the matter.
- Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: I thank the Acting Chairman for protecting me.
- Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: Have the implications of the provisions of this Bill been thoroughly considered by the Government, which could be said, as ever, to be missing the wider picture? Certainly, we are anxious to achieve a reduction in road fatalities, but has the nanny state gone too far and at what cost? I am disappointed that Deputy Mattie McGrath did not come into the Chamber.
- Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: He is very welcome.
- Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: He did a U-turn on this, anyway.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: Yes. This matter is more important and relevant to our duties in this House.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (25 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the action by the public service, which has brought the country to a standstill, with telephones in all sectors of the Civil Service not being answered today.
- Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: Can the Taoiseach give me an update on the progress being made with the monuments Bill? He might not consider the Bill, which will protect our national monuments, to be of pressing urgency, but I would beg to differ in that regard. It has been on the Order Paper for a long time. I would like to know when it will come before the House.
- Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: We may need it to protect some of the relics on the other side of the House.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the shortage of nursing care in the Legan, Colehill, Forgney and Carrickboy areas of County Longford despite a 24% increase in population. [8659/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: Question 338: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding jobseeker's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8657/10]
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: And the Tánaiste.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (18 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: Given that Fianna Fáil looped the Green Party members yesterday into a three card trick arrangement over the O'Dea affair and that those Members have trumpeted education reform, I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the threat to the education of our second level students and to the future needs of the economy due to the...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (18 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: -----which goes a long way to explaining why only 20% of pupils opt to take higher level leaving certificate mathematics. This is a significant indictment of the Government, and the Green Party members in government who continually talk about the need for an increase in the number taking higher level mathematics but, on the other hand, turn a blind eye to the disgracefully substandard...
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: The Minister of State should be more worried about Willie O'Dea.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: He told lies regarding Longford barracks as well.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
James Bannon: This is a Minister who told lies to the people of Longford.