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Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: The Minister is confused.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Nobody said that.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: The Minister was not in the House when we made our contributions.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Is the Deputy aware of our pre-budget submission?

Affordable Energy Strategy (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources his role in the promised programme to tackle fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37638/11]

Affordable Energy Strategy (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: I thank the Minister for his reply. The review of fuel poverty indicated that between 1,500 and 2,000 persons may have died in the winter of 2009-2010. I am not saying they all died from lack of heating in their homes but, certainly, it was a big contributing factor. The grant scheme that was available and operating up until now has helped in many cases to encourage people to properly...

Affordable Energy Strategy (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Is there any scheme that can help those who will not qualify because of income?

Affordable Energy Strategy (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: I welcome the fact that the Minister has assured the House that post-budget the grant scheme in place will survive. That is encouraging for those who are hoping to make the improvements necessary. Regarding fuel poverty, is it possible for the Minister to intervene with the regulator regarding the prices of ESB and Bord Gáis to ensure that energy is affordable and there will be no further...

Affordable Energy Strategy (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Yes.

Energy Projects (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources his views on the continued delay to the LNG Project in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37697/11]

Energy Projects (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: The importance of LNG for north Kerry and west Limerick cannot be emphasised enough. We are concerned with as many as 450 jobs to start it up. Reports, true or otherwise, have been consistently circulating in the area that Hess LNG is on the brink of pulling out because of the possible €10 million tariff per year to use the national gas pipe network. The regulator has told Shannon LNG...

Energy Projects (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Can the Minister give a firmer response? Will it be in two months or in the next few weeks? I assume the Minister is aware of the unemployment situation in the north Kerry area, which is more than twice the national average. Can he comment on that?

Energy Projects (29 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: It is important that the whole matter is cleared up because we are hearing different versions from different Ministers. I gather the Minister is aware of this. This should be cleared up because the people who live in the area are depending on this to proceed. As the Minister is aware, I have no love for multinationals and I am keen to ensure value for money for the taxpayers of the country...

Written Answers — Cultural Activities: Cultural Activities (24 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to increase awareness of the value and benefit of cultural activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36581/11]

Written Answers — An Teanga Gaeilge: An Teanga Gaeilge (24 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Question 22: To ask the Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil sé ar intinn aige an togra Líofa atá ag dul ó neart go neart sna sé chontae a lainseáil ar an taobh seo den teorainn. [36562/11]

Road Transport Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: The Minister challenged me and my colleagues when he said that he would accept this amendment if we said X, Y and Z. That is a disgraceful statement. If he thinks he can blackmail me to say what he wants, he has another thing coming. I could come in here and ask the Minister if the events at Abbeylara constituted murder or if the killing of Tom Smith in Portlaoise jail was murder. What...

Road Transport Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: I support the amendment as put by Deputy Ó Snodaigh. I outlined the reasoning behind it on the floor of the House yesterday. We are in a new situation and there are huge opportunities for those who were involved, not through any fault of their own, in the conflict we are now coming out of, or, thank God, are out of. It is a step backwards that people who worked so hard to bring about a...

Road Transport Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: I am disappointed that the Minister has not accepted this amendment and I would like him to reconsider it. What the legislation is doing is discriminating in an institutional way against people who are former political prisoners. In the Twenty-six Counties at present, even without the legislation, ex-republican prisoners involved in the conflict and released under the Good Friday Agreement,...

Road Transport Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: As we have had a sort of revisionist presentation from the Minister, I could take him to my county, to Ballyseedy or Beathacha, Caherciveen, or to Countess Bridge in Killarney where 17 prisoners were taken out in one week by the Minister's predecessors, tied to a mine and blown to bits in the name of this State, but I will not go down that road. I am just making the point that in the 1918 to...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Martin Ferris: Did you sign out, Brendan?