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Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 651: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn by civil servants in his Department to the suggestions arising from the European Commission's Kampsax report on the EIA for the M50 at the Carrickmines Castle complex raised with the Irish authorities at a meeting in May 2004 and specified at a meeting of the NDP-CSF...

Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Tánaiste might like an opportunity to speak but I have promised legislation to raise. It relates to a future cost on the taxpayer and to the building control Bill promised since 2003. As the Tánaiste may know, every tonne of cement produced creates approximately one tonne of CO emissions. The Bill was promised in 2003. It is now down for late 2005. Is there any urgency in Government in...

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to ensure the Government clarifies reports that it has again sided with the genetically modified food industry to prevent Irish citizens and non-governmental organisations from exercising a legal right to invoke the Arhaus Convention regarding public participation in decision making on GMOs and to ascertain if the Government will...

Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Thar ceann an Chomhaontais Glais, ba mhaith liomsa comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis an Teachta Murphy as toghchán a bhuachaint. Is mór an onóir é teacht anseo go Dáil Éireann do dhuine ar bith. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil sé tuilte go maith aici tar éis an méid oibre atá déanta aici thar na blianta fada. I extend my congratulations to Deputy Murphy, her family and her supporters in...

Computerisation Programme. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: De réir an fhreagra a thug an tAire Stáit, má fhanfaimid fada go leor, ní bheidh gá leis an infrastruchtúr atá riachtanach don teicneolaíocht atá i gceist. Does the Minister of State expect people to invest in personal computers when the infrastructural environment in which those expensive pieces of technology perform best — in other words, broadband — is not fully in place? Does...

Computerisation Programme. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Some.

Statistics on Farming. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has statistics that indicate the numbers of full-time and part-time farmers in the 1950s, in the early 1990s and in 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6985/05]

Statistics on Farming. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I asked a statistical question on the basis that Teagasc has given figures that I assumed were based on CSO figures. Is the Minister of State in possession of all the facts in regard to Government figures? Perhaps he will need to give me the reply again when he has had an opportunity to discuss with Teagasc the real situation which I understand has resulted in a couple of thousand farmers...

Statistics on Farming. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I am looking for statistics but I am not getting them.

Statistics on Farming. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Forgive me for straying into policy, but the statistical question I want answered has not been answered here. The Minister of State has informed me he does not have the figures. The figures are available and he does not have to go very far to obtain them. I would like an explanation as to why he does not have an answer to the question I have asked in the Dáil.

Statistics on Farming. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: That answer was so convoluted as to be meaningless, with talk of changes in systems and the collection of figures. Does the Minister of State accept that if the figures were presented clearly, they would indicate an exodus of thousands of people from the land and farming as a way of life every year? The figures exist and the Minister for Agriculture and Food gives them to me from time to time...

Statistics on Farming. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I am asking for an answer and I am not getting one. I will ask this question again on another day and I want to receive clear figures that are not confused by dates or differences between family-run and commercial farms. We want to know how many people are dependent on agriculture each year.

Statistics on Farming. (22 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Livelihoods.

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (10 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when and how he intends to transpose the European renewables directive into Irish law. [8282/05]

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (10 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has satisfied himself that he has the necessary time and resources to respond within the one month deadline to the request by the European Commission for greater transparency on the application of public funding by RTE to public service broadcasting purposes; the timeframe within which the Government has...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (9 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she intends to carry out a systematic review of the Residential Institutions Redress Board in view of the recent court payment of €370,000 which dwarfs the average award from the board and is significantly higher than any other payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7944/05]

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I will speak about tomorrow's debate in due course. I regard the IRA statement as gratuitous and quite insulting to put to the family of a murder victim. To offer them a further murder is incredible. Does the Taoiseach see merit in the request that the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation undertake to allow civic society and society beyond the parties engaged in the process to involve itself in...

Departmental Expenditure. (9 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the expenditure of his Department during 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5702/05]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (8 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the way in which Ireland will respond to the likely eventuality that the elections on 31 March 2005 in Zimbabwe will not be in accordance with international and SADC principles for the holding of free and fair elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7745/05]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (8 Mar 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs Ireland's and the EU's role in election observation in view of the fact that the Zimbabwean Government has silenced another independent voice (details supplied) on 1 March 2005 and that this represents further evidence that the 31 March 2004 elections can be neither free nor fair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7744/05]