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Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 821: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if school transport will be provided for persons (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10074/05]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 866: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received an application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a section of this school has been condemned since 2001; if she will examine this application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10272/05]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 1055: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage of businesses obliged under regulations to take responsibility for their waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10036/05]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 1056: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of prosecutions taken against businesses for failing to comply with packaging waste legislation since 1997; the prosecuting local authority; the companies prosecuted; the penalties imposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10037/05]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 1057: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the annual lost revenue due to non-compliance with packaging waste regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10038/05]

Death of His Holiness Pope John Paul II: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: I support the motion proposed by the Taoiseach. World leaders gathered in Rome last Friday for the burial of the Pope and to pay tribute to a remarkable man who was a poet, actor, mystic, jet-setter, philosopher, anti-war campaigner, human rights activist and evangelist. He meant more to humanity than any other individual in the history of mankind. His university friends once pinned a note on...

Constitutional Referenda. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he intends holding a constitutional referendum in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4636/05]

Constitutional Referenda. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Is the Taoiseach aware that a recent Eurobarometer research indicated — I do not know whether we can believe this — that 45% of Irish people had never heard of the existence of the EU constitution, never mind be aware of its content? If there is any relevance or truth in that report, it is obviously very serious. I ask the Taoiseach to outline the steps the Government intends to take on...

Constitutional Referenda. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Has the Government discussed the question of discrimination against women in the home? The Irish Human Rights Commission called for a referendum on the deletion of Article 41.2 of the Constitution. The All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution recommended the deletion of the article and its replacement with a different form of wording to the effect that the State would recognise that...

Constitutional Referenda. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Deputy Callely, announced a €16 billion programme recently without the Minister knowing of it.

Leaders' Questions. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: Today Irish nurses commenced their latest campaign to highlight the disgraceful scenes at accident and emergency departments around the country. At the Mater Hospital, Cork University Hospital and Roscommon General Hospital nurses were forced on to the streets to protest during their lunch break about the continuously bad situation in accident and emergency units. Their demands are not...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach has not changed. He referred to the figure of 3,300 people. This is very much less than it was seven years ago. The position is that the Government is unable to deal now with a lesser number than there was seven years ago. The Department closed contracted beds 18 months ago and is now opening up contracted beds as if this was a brand new initiative. In those years the health...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Apr 2005)

Enda Kenny: It is an admission of failure.

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: I regret the Taoiseach is not present on the break up of the House for a further two weeks, as a number of serious issues need to be addressed. Is the Bill recently passed capable of dealing with the regulation of the spending of public money, given that it has come to light that a farm four miles——

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, who described the Abbotstown proposal as a Ceaucescu-like development, has spent €30 million of the taxpayer's money on a 150-acre farm to build a prison.

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: Another farm comprising 243 acres, four miles away, was sold yesterday for just over €6 million.

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: This is another example of profligate spending from the public purse. Will the new development be the McDowell monument to political spending?

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: I wish to raise a second issue, which is the Mícheál Martin special, the Dunne inquiry. I listened to an articulate argument on a national radio programme about this earlier. The previous Minister for Health and Children stated in writing that if the Dunne inquiry failed to bring a satisfactory conclusion to this matter, which is of serious concern to a large number of people, there would...

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: On a humanitarian issue, the Minister can suddenly reverse an independent decision. Did he read the report on the order that was signed in the first instance?

Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: It does.