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Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I ask that the Minister come into the House to outline future developments. I congratulate the hospitals in Wexford and Kilkenny on this and if it was good news for Donegal I would be congratulating the work because it is about delivering the service.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I agree with the Minister of State wholeheartedly. I must go back to my friends in Northern Ireland and tell them how great a country they live in because I did not realise until I listened to Senator Cullinane's contribution how perfect a system they have compared to us. I did not know people in the North paid so little tax for so great a service. Sinn Féin's history in the context of...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: This relates to the setting up of Irish Water. I am glad it is transparent and accountable and no one has been accused of discrimination. Perhaps Senator Cullinane will acknowledge the actions of his own Minister in Northern Ireland. The setting up a water service is important to rural and urban areas in County Donegal where water is an essential component. Sinn Féin wishes that we do...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: It costs £140 to have one's septic tank serviced.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Like my colleagues, I extend my sympathy to the Henry, de Buitléar and Donohoe families on the immeasurable grief they are going through this week. The Donohoe family will have a person missing from the Christmas table, and the children will not have a Dad at their birthday parties or for Christmas morning. Everyone in the country must be feeling as I feel about his death. It is something...

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am sorry that the Minister of State for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy McGinley has left because he is a fellow Donegal man and would have shared my concern about the recent spate of burglaries in Donegal and their fall-out. I am from the rural part of the county and now live in an urban part, Letterkenny. Donegal, like many...

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Sinn Féin is on the policing boards and is campaigning in Fermanagh and Tyrone to close the stations. Rural stations, much like those beside which I grew up, Lifford, Raphoe, St. Johnston and Convoy serve the same type of community but on the other side of the Border Sinn Féin is very enthusiastic about community policing which I applaud.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: There is a soundbite in the South that the Garda stations must be kept open. There is no future in gardaí sitting in the station. The future is in the gardaí being on the street. This has been proved this week in Donegal where the gardaí made many arrests in connection with the robberies of the past two weeks, much to the disgust of certain politicians such as the Deputy who predicted...

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: It is important that the police get out on the street and know the people. Years ago the rural garda did not have a mobile phone, or maybe not even a telephone in the station. He did not have a car, he had a bicycle and a torch. Now they have facilities and do not have to be in the station.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: They have cars. In Donegal-----

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: There will be 170 new cars.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I am glad that Senator Ó Clochartaigh has raised the issue of the Garda cars because the PSNI is cutting its police cars and is now down to 300 vehicles, with the support of Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: It has 300 left.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: It has 40% fewer stations than it had five years ago.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: It has 40% fewer.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I have no issue with Senator Ó Clochartaigh but I want to state a few facts. Everyone has a role in policing in the community, from taxi drivers to the postman, the garda, the teacher and the ordinary guy in the street. Everyone has eyes and ears and people are beginning to realise this. They have mobile phones and if they see a suspicious car they can photograph the licence plate and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the House to clarify where the 11 million burgers that have been withdrawn will end up? According to a newspaper report today, the ABP Food Group does not know how the burgers will be destroyed or where they will end up. In the same report Professor Patrick Wall, a food specialist at UCD, refers to the fact that he...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Along with other Members I extend my sympathies at this sad time to the McEntee family and to the family of Senator Clune following the death of her mum. I would like a debate on the issue of medical card reviews that are taking place around the country and particularly in an area of Donegal. I have been contacted by several doctors who maintain that the medical card reviews are mitigating...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (20 Dec 2012)

Jimmy Harte: It may not be palatable to say a voluntary housing group must pay. I take it properties in County Donegal will probably be at the low end of the ¤90,000 to ¤100,000 range. It is fair that everyone should pay something and if the figure will be only ¤90 in County Donegal, it will not be an inordinate amount of money. The Simon Community, Respond! and other groups are always fund-raising...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (20 Dec 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I am a director of the North West Simon Community in Donegal and we have approximately 40 housing units. I agree completely with the Minister on the need for everyone to contribute something. It may not be palatable to say a voluntary housing group must pay. I take it properties in County Donegal will probably be at the low end of the ¤90,000 to ¤100,000 range. It is fair that everyone...