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Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Where has war been declared by Europe?

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Deputy Ó Snodaigh should speak the truth.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Deputy Ó Snodaigh voted against any debate of the Bill. Why then is he referring to it?

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: The Deputy opposed a Second Reading of the Bill last night.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: The Deputy sought to have no debate on the Bill last night.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Deputy Ó Snodaigh opposed a Second Reading of the Bill last night.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Daniel O'Connell promoted the use of English in the nineteenth century.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Question 740: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [11614/08]

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: I will share my time with Deputy Lucinda Creighton. The Lisbon treaty has undergone a long period of gestation. Its origins began with the Convention on the Future of Europe and it involved debate and discussion over several years. The convention took on board the views of many people before it formulated its proposal for the EU constitution. We now know that this constitution was not...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Regarding subsidiarity, the Union shall only act in so far as the objective in question cannot be sufficiently achieved at member state level. In respect of proportionality, the Union shall only act to the extent necessary to achieve the objective in question. I cannot see how anybody could argue with any of those points. The Union is conferred with a single legal personality. Competences...

Order of Business (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: Fine Gael has published a Private Members' Bill on the same issue and we may get an opportunity to bring it before the Dáil over the next few weeks.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2008)

Billy Timmins: We hope the Government will accept the Bill and thereby solve the problem.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (13 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a school (detail supplied) in County Wicklow; the position in relation to the €800,000 allocated to the school; if an acknowledgment will be given from her Department that the work on this project was conducted within its guidelines and confirmation that the board of management and the pupils of the...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: I do not know if the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism saw the documentary, "Fairytale of Kathmandu", during the week but it threw up some disturbing issues. One of these was the wider issue of the sexual exploitation of children in underdeveloped countries.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: I will, if the Ceann Comhairle gives me the opportunity.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: I am struck by the reluctance of modern Ireland — perhaps epitomised by the Ceann Comhairle — to put the head above the parapet and seek a discussion on this issue, lest we be accused of homophobia.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: In conjunction with the Chief Whip, will time be given in the next session to debate the sexual exploitation of children, particularly in underdeveloped countries? It is an exploitation that it is assisted by many people who leave these shores on a weekly basis.

Cluster Munitions Bill 2008: First Stage (13 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the trade in cluster munitions and to provide for connected matters.

Cluster Munitions Bill 2008: First Stage (13 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (12 Mar 2008)

Billy Timmins: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position in respect of funding or grants to carry out necessary repairs and improvements to a house (details supplied); if funding or grants are available from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10749/08]