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Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when legislation will be published allowing persons in long-term foster care to opt to become adopted by their long-term carers on reaching their 18th birthday. [3747/06]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (2 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Questions Nos. 1112 and 1113 of 25 January 2006, when, to whom and the reason the Garda authorities make comments regarding the existence or otherwise of intelligence information that relates to the security of the State. [3744/06]

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (2 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 171: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason seeking information from Garda intelligence on a category of persons and the number of persons in such a category, without seeking information on specific individuals, would be deemed to be injurious to the security of the State. [3745/06]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (2 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which his Department is dealing with the case of a person, details supplied. [3746/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (2 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount which has been awarded by his Department to a company (details supplied) since 1969 in respect of ground rent on land held at Ballincollig, County Cork. [3743/06]

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Transport if and when he intends to begin temporary outsourcing of driving tests in order to address the issue of the driving test backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3293/06]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Transport the circumstances which changed in 2005 when the introduction of random breath testing of drivers was ruled out due to constitutional difficulties and the announcement on 25 January 2006 that the legal advice was that such testing would be possible. [3292/06]

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: The path the Government has embarked upon does not concern competition. It will lead us down the path of cartels to duopoly and, eventually, to single companies controlling the operation of retail activities in towns and villages. The Minister, if he was so inclined, would have found the recent documentary about the Wal-Mart chain on RTE 2 television instructive. Wal-Mart is the supermarket...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: The Minister of State laughed at my contribution seven times during the last five minutes.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: If that is the case, the Minister of State did not listen to what I had to say and was laughing at something else.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: The Minister of State cannot have it both ways.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: Since we are talking about hypocrisy, I merely said that the Minister of State was laughing at my contribution.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: The Minister of State was either listening to my contribution or sneering at it. Is this correct?

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: My time is limited, as is my patience. However, I have made my substantial point. In respect of hypocrisy, I will take no lessons from the Minister of State. Let us see the type of retail choice and opportunities in communities such as those in my constituency and Cork East that will result from this regressive legislation.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: Hear, hear.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: I wish to share time with Deputies Ó Caoláin and McHugh.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: It is well known that the Minister, Deputy Martin, and I come from the same community and parish. Our family homes are no more than 100 m apart. We share the same sense of affection for the community in which we were brought up, as well as sharing a sense of the character of that area. It has a combination of charms in the sense that it is only ten minutes walk from Cork city centre but it...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: It is the same phenomenon.

National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: I move amendment No. 23: In page 21, lines 26 to 28, to delete all words from and including "shall," in line 26 down to and including "Oireachtas" in line 28 and substitute the following: "shall lay a strategic plan which has been approved by him or her under subsection (1) before the Houses of the Oireachtas, to debate the contents and to vote upon its implementation". In keeping with...

National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (1 Feb 2006)

Dan Boyle: I am grateful to the Minister of State for giving consideration to this matter. I would be happy to remove the final clause but the last phrase should be "its contents" rather than "the contents".