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Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: This means that he is moving the national drugs strategy into the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, and abolishing the entire multi-agency, community based structure that has been put in place over a dozen years. This is radical change. Will legislation be introduced to enable that to happen?

Strategic Development Zones. (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: He has gone AWOL.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in reviewing the mortgage interest supplement; and her plans to amend this scheme to allow more people qualify. [9270/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the criteria by which she is judging the affordability of rent for persons on rent supplement; and the savings she will make on expenditure on rent supplement. [9271/09]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance the legal firm which advised Anglo Irish Bank and the ten investors that the borrowing arrangements entered into were legal and above board; if that legal firm is still in the employment of Anglo Irish Bank or any of its clients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9342/09]

Written Answers — Crime Statistics: Crime Statistics (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on a refusal (details supplied) by the Central Statistics Office to provide information in view of the fact that he referred this Deputy's original parliamentary question to the CSO and that his Department provided these figures prior to the CSO taking over the function; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of funding that was provided to inter-county GAA players to afford parity of esteem with other elite amateur athletes in 2008; the amount he proposes to provide in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9341/09]

National Drugs Strategy. (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: We live in interesting times and virtually every sector of Government funding has been hard hit by cutbacks, a levy, a budget and, next month, a mini-budget, all of which has happened in the space of six months. It is therefore not surprising that the national drugs strategy has suffered a reduction in its budget from €37 million to €34 million. Every local drugs task force, State...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage. (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: The Deputy's time is up. He will have to find another way of informing the Dáil of Mr. Clark's merits.

Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: On legislation, a referendum commission was established by law to provide information to the public on the Lisbon treaty last summer and it produced its report recently, in which it complained strongly that it had only three weeks to conduct research and provide a draft of a leaflet for distribution to the citizenry. It stated that it needed in the region of five months to do its business...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: I ask this question in the context of the report by the outgoing commission in which it stated the new commission should be established by law at least five months in advance of a referendum so that it can conduct its business properly and disseminate information. That was a major problem during the last referendum.

Order of Business (5 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: The majority of people who voted "No" stated in the Millward Brown survey that they did so because they did not know what was involved and the Government had not given them the opportunity to find out.

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (4 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the actions taken to date to highlight the dangers of the use of cocaine as a result of the national advisory committee on drugs report indicating the use of the illicit substance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8951/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (4 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of applications received for the provision of funding under the CLÁR programme in respect of the past two years; the number received to date in 2009; the amount of funding drawn down in each year; if there is a waiting list; the number of such applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Prisoner Transfers: Prisoner Transfers (4 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will repatriate a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9212/09]

Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: While the Ceann Comhairle is eager to proceed to the main business of the House, I hope he will bear with me for a moment while I revisit the issue I raised yesterday in the Dáil. I refer to the Kieran Boylan case, in which a man was caught red-handed while on bail with €1.8 million worth of cocaine and heroin. The case was brought to the courts and the DPP charged him. He dropped the...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: I am talking about, and will come to, legislation.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: In 2005, the charges were entered but in 2007, the DPP dropped the charges. In 2007, the DPP reinstated the charges when the issue was raised in this House.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: In 2008, on the last day of the court, the DPP dropped the charges again.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)

Joe Costello: This is a matter of extreme serious concern.