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Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Following the earlier debate on the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, what progress has been made on legislation for a register of persons considered unsafe to work with children? In the North, similar legislation has made considerable progress while the South is paralysed on this matter.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Is it not possible to indicate the date of publication for this Bill? I expected it to have changed so that we could look forward to some date. With many students starting third level college this month, no date has been indicated for the publication of the third level student support Bill. Is the Department of Education and Science progressing this legislation?

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 26: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he has had or plans to have with the Northern Ireland political parties to discuss the sudden upsurge of violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25021/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 27: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he has had or plans to have with the US Administration regarding the Northern Ireland peace process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25022/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 28: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any contact he has had with the US Administration regarding the arrival here of the Colombia Three; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25023/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 29: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25206/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Oct 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I wholeheartedly welcome the report of General de Chastelain, Fr. Reid and Rev. Good. In welcoming the involvement of everybody who has helped to bring about the verification and the move beyond violence on the part of the Provisional IRA at any rate, and given that the Minister for Foreign Affairs said that contacts with loyalists paramilitaries were being pursued, will the Taoiseach...

Written Answers — EU Summits: EU Summits (29 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Defence the agenda for the EU Defence ministerial conference in October 2005 at RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire, England; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25797/05]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Ombudsman: Defence Forces Ombudsman (29 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Defence the role of the newly appointed first Ombudsman for the Defence Forces, Ms Marrinan-Quinn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25798/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the backlog at the special eye clinic on Rathdown Road, Dublin 7 is so long that as many as 2,000 children are waiting for the attention of just one doctor; the measures she intends putting in place to alleviate this hardship; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis na Teachtaí Ó Snodaigh, Joe Higgins, Gregory, Finian McGrath, Murphy agus Healy. The Green Party supports what might be termed the "Mullingar motion" regarding the siting of a prison in north County Dublin. It must be far more closely investigated than the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, might like. Having listened to...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The stigma this involves is something that cannot be tolerated and must be resisted in the interests of basic common decency and justice. We must focus on the procurement procedure in this matter. It has been a reckless example of spending in the dark, which is a habit of this Government. First, the Prisons Bill 2005 has not been passed so we do not have a coherent prisons policy. When one...

Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I will deal with that matter after the Order of Business. With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I wish to thank Members and staff in the House for their expressions of sympathy on the very sudden death of the General Secretary of the Green Party, Comhaontas Glas, Dermot Hamilton. I am sure the House will join me in offering condolences to his wife, Patricia, and his teenage daughter,...

Written Answers — Equality Legislation: Equality Legislation (28 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the role his Department has had in relation to the lobbying by Aer Lingus management for an exemption to equality law, in view of recent revelations regarding same. [25503/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (28 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to increase the number of decompression chambers available here; and if the location of the decompression chamber will be regionally balanced. [24392/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (28 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 491: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide details of payment of stamp duty, including the names of the purchasers and sellers, being made publicly available within a year of the sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24764/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (28 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 765: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will review the decision taken by the Government in 1969 which created the situation affecting members of the Retired Aviation Staff Association where since 1990 the pension increases in the Irish Aviation (General Employees) Pension Scheme have fallen behind the public service by approximately 50%; and if he will undertake to have this...

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (28 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 850: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will consider the case of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will further consider an appeal in order that this person can benefit from the early retirement schemes. [24456/05]

Written Answers — Organic Farming: Organic Farming (28 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 878: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the investigation carried out by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution in the United Kingdom on the effect of agricultural chemicals when sprayed on farmers and other persons, especially developing children living in the vicinity of the sprayed area; if her attention has been further drawn...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (28 Sep 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 911: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress which has been made in establishing an all-island charter of rights as intended following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. [24318/05]