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Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: It is not inappropriate because it is a very important matter to the many people who are affected.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: It is a very significant issue in every constituency.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: Is the proposal contained in the programme for Government and how will the matter be dealt with over the coming months?

Order of Business (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: It is a very significant issue. The Taoiseach is anxious to answer and I would therefore like a response.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: Clean the rivers; it is as simple as that.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: That is not true. One should clean the full river. The Green Party is hiding from the facts the whole time. Its members are talking about climate change and Dr. This and Dr. That - they should get to the facts.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: Not if they are drained fully.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: That is a Government excuse.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak on the Bill. This discussion is timely, in particular when there is so much discussion in the media and on the airwaves about flooding and bad planning. Ministers who visited various constituencies blamed bad planning for causing the flooding. The reality is that people were also beginning to blame bad planning for the flooding. I am not an...

Flood Relief. (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this important item on the Adjournment. In recent weeks, much media attention and Government time was taken up by the difficult situations that the latter needed to deal with in the major crisis areas of Galway, Clare, Limerick, the west and even parts of my constituency. Lost in all of this were the many small projects with which local...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (2 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons living in south Tipperary who have applied for the Work Placement Programme and the number of persons who have been accepted; the number of work experience placements available in south Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44736/09]

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (1 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if phase two of the Clonmel flood relief scheme will assist householders and businesses to receive house insurance covering flooding once more; the discussion he has had with insurance providers to assure those persons affected by the floods provide this cover; if there is an Exchequer funded scheme of insurance which will cover persons in this...

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (1 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the flooding section of the Office of Public Works' website cannot be used to collate all flood warnings and information in order that persons have one central place to check on the danger of flooding in their area; and the further reason that section of the website has not been updated and therefore cannot provide assistance to persons...

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (1 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that phase two of the Clonmel flood relief scheme will proceed; if this funding has been sanctioned and ring-fenced for this work; and when it will begin. [43978/09]

Written Answers — Flood Compensation Scheme: Flood Compensation Scheme (1 Dec 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 245: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the arrangements that will be made to compensate flood victims in south Tipperary after the latest flood damage to homes and businesses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43947/09]

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Nov 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he or An Bord Bia have strategies in place to market Irish agricultural produce as a low carbon product to export markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43603/09]

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (26 Nov 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Clonmel flood relief scheme; the amount of funding spent on this scheme to date; the amount of funding allocated to the scheme; if the next phase in the flood relief scheme will be fast tracked to prevent further flood damage during the process of building these works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43778/09]

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (26 Nov 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way in which she intended homecare packages to be used for persons in the community; the services they were meant to cater for; if recommendations for allocating homecare packages and relevant criteria for individual assessment, as well as for assessing the groups providing these packages was provided to the Health Service...

Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (26 Nov 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the length of time people are spending on the waiting list for the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in every office; the number of cases that have been dealt with by every office since the beginning of 2009; how this compares with the past three years; if there are vacancies in the service; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (26 Nov 2009)

Tom Hayes: Question 257: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding has been released to local authorities to pay for disabled persons grants in 2010; the amount of funding; if this will be sufficient to cover the backlog of these approved cases. [43716/09]