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Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The criminal justice DNA Bill, to provide for the establishment of a database, is being drafted and, I understand, will be available for the spring session. The heads of the coroners Bill have been approved and the Bill has been submitted for drafting. I understand quite an amount of work has been done on it and that it should also be available early in 2007. The Chief Whip will update the...

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The Money Advice and Budgeting Service Bill was published almost five years ago, in the early part of 2002. It is the view of the Minister and the Department that the structures to improve this legislation are considerably different from those of five years ago and it would be possible to introduce a far better Bill. The Title will be the same but the Bill will have been comprehensively...

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The heads of the carbon fund Bill were approved in July and the Bill is due in early 2007. As regards a debate, that is a matter for the Chief Whip.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The legislation is due in 2007.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The legislation on fireworks was amended in the summer under the Criminal Justice Bill.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It made a big impact. If anyone was watching over the past few weeks, there was a huge reduction——

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: As far as co-ordination between the North and South is concerned, that matter should be taken up with the Minister.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The asset covered securities (amendment) Bill is listed for 2007.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The heads of the markets in financial instruments Bill were recently approved by Government. It is listed for next summer.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: That matter can be raised with the appropriate Minister.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I am.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: There is no Bill listed.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: To return to Deputy Broughan's question, the national inland fisheries authority Bill is due next year. That is the only Bill listed.

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: With regard to Deputy Kenny's question, the Attorney General cannot do an assessment until we see the legislation that is agreed, if we can get the legislation finally agreed. That will be in approximately three weeks' time. He has already put down his markers on it. As I previously stated, the strong position of the Democratic Unionist Party, with which I do not agree, frankly, is that...

Order of Business (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: As for the two pieces of legislation, some time ago the Minister decided the legislation listed and the heads of that Bill were unsatisfactory. He announced some time ago that he would introduce a different, more comprehensive Bill to deal with the issue of loans. He was referring to legalised loans rather than to moneylenders, as many of the organisations in question are licensed. He...

Leaders' Questions (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: As Deputy Rabbitte is aware, there are, on the face of it, powers to deal with a number of these issues under several legislative measures. However, they have not proven to be effective over a long time. While the Deputy noted that the Bill is from 2002, the Bill that we had approved is from the late 1990s as the issue was discussed in the late 1990s and in 2000. In the view of the...

Leaders' Questions (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: In respect of shared ownership and other schemes, the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government with responsibility for housing examines the thresholds for these schemes on an annual basis and continually adjusts them based on what is happening in the market. It is true that in the first half of this year, there was a very steep increase in prices...

Leaders' Questions (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I thought I had answered the Deputy's last point, but to clarify matters, the thresholds for people applying under the various schemes are examined on an annual basis and I understand they will be examined again this year. They are based on what happened in the market during the previous year and are examined annually.

Leaders' Questions (1 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Yes, I will raise that issue. I do not wish to debate Part V, but when we introduced Part V of the Planning and Development Act, the cry from everywhere was that it was overly restrictive and unworkable and would not provide us with a supply so we made changes to it. We were told at the time that there would be a run-through of approximately five years before those planning permissions were...