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Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: I have given the Minister the Fine Gael position.

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: An amount of €1 million has been spent.

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: Has the Minister spent €47 million?

Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: Last week, a number of Fine Gael and Labour Party Deputies requested that speaking time be made available to discuss continuing events in Burma. I understand European Union Foreign Ministers met at the start of this week and agreed to toughen EU sanctions against the regime in Burma. Will the Government make time available next week to have statements or a debate on the issue of Burma?

Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: People are seeking a one-word answer as to whether local electoral area boundaries will be changed before the local elections. Does the Taoiseach not know the answer?

Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: The Taoiseach could give a one-word answer.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: The Ceann Comhairle is muzzling the Taoiseach.

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: I welcome the opportunity to raise questions on this issue before we vote on it. However, on the basis of what the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has said, I have real concerns about whether Fine Gael can support this Supplementary Estimate. The proposals under discussion would provide an additional capital expenditure of €16.2 million to Sustainable Energy...

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: Regarding the State's most basic responsibility of providing people with health care the Government has said refused an increased allocation of funds for the HSE, yet a greener homes scheme and other worthy schemes have gone way over budget and we are willing to take money from an information and communications technology budget, effectively from another Department, to bail out this scheme....

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (17 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Capital Investment Framework: Capital Investment Framework (16 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if cases of non-compliance with the capital investment framework were reported to his Department in 2007; the Departments and the projects involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23564/07]

European Union Reform Treaty: Statements (16 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: It leads us to peacekeeping.

European Union Reform Treaty: Statements (16 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: Yes.

European Union Reform Treaty: Statements (16 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: I am pleased to have an opportunity to make a statement of support for the EU reform treaty. As the Minister of State mentioned earlier, it is a culmination of a lengthy process of reflection and negotiations since the failure to ratify the constitutional treaty in referenda in France and the Netherlands. When both countries voted against the new EU constitution, there was a great deal of...

Telecommunications Services. (11 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: I thank the Minister for his reply. It is helpful to know which groups are in the running for the national broadband scheme. I wish to make a reality check for anyone listening to this debate. Ireland is still a long way behind all its direct competitors and many of its European neighbours in terms of broadband connectivity. A total of 7.8% of the population of County Leitrim have...

Telecommunications Services. (11 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: Will the Minister confirm that he is abandoning the group broadband scheme because he believes it is not working? The reason it has not worked is that there is only matching funding and the community must find half the funding. It is being abandoned in favour of a national broadband scheme that will happen at some stage in the future and the money is being diverted to a different sector in...

Telecommunications Services. (11 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: Where is the €10 million coming from?

Telecommunications Services. (11 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: I am asking the question now.

Telecommunications Services. (11 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: The Minister knows the answer but he is not giving it to us.

Fuel Prices. (11 Oct 2007)

Simon Coveney: When similar questions were raised about the mobile phone market, the regulator, ComReg, responded with a website which outlined to consumers in clear terms the difference in prices and options on offer from various operators. Would it be forward thinking to take a lead on this issue and speak with the energy regulator about similarly comparing diesel, petrol and biofuel prices throughout...