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Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: I support the motion before the House and commend the Labour Party and Deputy Gilmore on giving us the opportunity to debate it because it is an important issue which concerns many of my constituents from across the social spectrum. As the sometimes technical nature of our debates can cause us to lose sight of these issues, I want to briefly outline one of the eight to ten representations on...

Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: It is waffle. The Government has no answers on this. I accept that we need to change the current system because the €400 million paid each year is going down the drain. The landlords who receive that money are taking advantage of people who would otherwise be in social housing. The ninth progress report of the All-Party Committee on the Constitution presented one aspect of the solution when...

Written Answers — House Prices: House Prices (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Question 123: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has carried out an assessment to ascertain whether the policies of his or any other Department are contributing to the ongoing excessive increases in house prices. [5331/06]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Question 186: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce a requirement to oblige local authorities to replace every unit of social housing sold under the tenant purchase scheme with a new additional unit of social housing. [5330/06]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Question 291: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide special educational and occupational needs for a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5201/06]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Question 609: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, following the publication of the most recent three yearly assessment of social housing needs, which showed that there were 43,600 households on social housing waiting lists, he will, as committed to in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 25 October 2005, be announcing a new statement of housing...

Building Control Bill 2005: Second Stage. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: I wish to share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, McHugh and Cuffe.

Building Control Bill 2005: Second Stage. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: I welcome this legislation, which is long overdue. The transposition into Irish law of the EU directive on the energy performance of buildings, adopted on 16 December 2002, has been the subject of inexplicable and unwarranted delays. The directive was to have been legally transposed into State law and given practical effect by 4 January 2006. As with other EU directives with an...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, to afford the Taoiseach an opportunity to explain to the House his reasons for refusing to meet the family of British murder squad victim Seamus Ludlow, an explanation which the family urgently needs and deserves, given the Taoiseach has met the McCartney family and the family of...

Waste Management. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Question 104: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce legislation to ban incineration. [5471/06]

Waste Management. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Does the Minister accept that many scientists reject incineration as a flawed process which results in the emission of some of the most dangerous, toxic dioxins known to humankind? Does he agree the incineration industry has been given an easy ride here because the Minister crumbles to its every whim? I asked him a specific question about Indaver Ireland to which he has given permission to...

Waste Management. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Would it not be preferable to take the "reduce, reuse, recycle" approach, which involves educating the wider community to move away from the poisonous incineration process?

Waste Management. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: That is not the statement which has been attributed to the Minister.

Waste Management. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: The cat is out of the bag.

Waste Management. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Will the Minister at least accept a moratorium on the development of incinerators, pending a further investigation into the scientific, environmental and health consequences of such a disastrous, poisonous process?

Waste Management. (14 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Such as.

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (8 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Finance his position on the possible inclusion of a separate stand-alone article on the protection and improvement of the environment in the Structural Funds regulations, currently under negotiation, along the lines of existing article 14 on equality between men and women and non-discrimination as supported by the European Parliament in its first reading...

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (8 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: Question 258: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of the fact that provision of board and lodgings has been connected with many cases of exploitation of migrant workers, the minimum wage legislation will be amended to remove the provision whereby if an employer provides an employee with full board and lodgings, or lodgings only, or full board only, a monetary...

Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: I propose to share time with Deputies Healy, McHugh and Sargent. This legislation fails to fulfill what should be the primary objective of tax policy, that is, to make the tax system equitable and progressive and redistribute wealth in favour of the less well-off. Under a progressive tax regime, those who have more pay more, while those who have less pay less. The system is regressive as the...

Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)

Arthur Morgan: ——at a time when in excess of 43,000 households remained on social housing waiting lists and young couples across the State struggled and over-borrowed to secure over-priced housing. We also pointed to the adverse effect which these reliefs and exemptions were having on property prices. The Indecon review confirmed that they had led to "an increase in site prices, financial returns to...