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Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, was the man who wasted taxpayers' money on electronic voting and flights of fancy to Kuala Lumpur and everywhere else.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Trevor Sargent: He is trying to accuse honest people, who are trying to protect heritage, of robbery. He has a brass neck. He will now vote himself a holiday and continue to lie to the people.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Minister should return to the House and be accountable for his words and he will discover he is telling absolute untruths.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Minister needs to get a hold of the facts and stop trying to mislead the people and create propaganda.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I am trying to correct the record. When Ministers go on holidays they should keep an eye to the truth.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Trevor Sargent: This matter requires the Government to acknowledge that we need parity of hours with the House of Commons if we are genuinely interested in a peace process.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress which his Department has made on the introduction for all senior citizens of an all-island free travel scheme. [23044/05]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will more fully explain his proposal to encourage the remortgaging of pensioner's homes. [23045/05]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 683: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the institutional arrangements which are being or have been made for the purchase of carbon credits by the Government; the public consultation planned in relation to these institutional arrangements; the guidelines regarding the purchases; if the views of Development Co-operation Ireland have been sought; if...

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 684: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if mass releases of balloons are in breach of any existing legislation; or if he will consider bringing in legislation, such as exists in other jurisdictions, preventing such releases. [23875/05]

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Will the Ceann Comhairle give some indication of the timescale involved if he agrees to a private notice question on the imprisoned Mayo men? On promised legislation, might it be taken into account that the kind of tornado that took the roof off the aquatic centre will increase in intensity with climate change? The Building Control Bill, which refers to the building sector, which offers the...

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: When will it be published and will the Tánaiste use the opportunity to indicate whether the conditions for the prompt payment of those in the construction sector could also be updated and made more effective in that legislation?

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It is not working for the building sector.

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I asked when the Building Control Bill would be published. It was promised in 2003.

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Which year?

Health Insurance: Motions. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I pass on apologies from Deputy Gormley, our health spokesperson, who has to be in Dublin Castle to meet Commissioner Barroso. I have spoken to him and discussed some of the experience he has had on the Joint Committee on Health and Children which he has asked me to relate. The Green Party believes in community rating and accepts the advice of the regulatory body on risk equalisation, which...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter which was also raised on the Adjournment last night: the need for amended legislation and a prompt payment ombudsman to address the withholding of legitimate payments involving millions of euro by, in the main, certain large companies to subcontractors which continues to result in serious...

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Green Party also seeks such a debate. This omnibus approach to dealing with motions does not acknowledge that not only do they come from different Departments and are the responsibility of different Ministers, they also do not even get the basic acknowledgement that they stand on their own merits. I ask that they would be taken separately in future.

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Separately for the nod. I propose they be acknowledged as motions in their own right.

Order of Business. (30 Jun 2005)

Trevor Sargent: That is what I mean — on the nod.