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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 385: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of forestry grant applications approved for Údaras na Gaeltachta and in respect of each application to date of approval, area planted, planting grants, maintenance grants, premiums paid to date and an estimate of premiums payable in future years. [4585/05]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 386: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if persons (details supplied) or any party acting on its behalf submitted a forestry grant, premium application or any type of documentation in respect of the land or part thereof. [4586/05]

Issue of Writ: Kildare North By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I wish to share time with Deputies Ó Caoláin and Finian McGrath.

Issue of Writ: Kildare North By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It is a good day for democracy that the parties in a position to move the writ do so today. I welcome the opportunity to put on the record the good wishes of the Green Party for the former incumbents, Charlie McCreevy in Kildare North and John Bruton in Meath. I have no doubt they will be missed in many ways but the people of Kildare North and Meath now have an opportunity to review their...

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: This by-election will be a welcome opportunity for the people of Meath to have their say. They can pass judgment on their neglect by the main parties down the years. Meath will not be taken for granted and there are many issues about which the people feel angry. The Green Party candidate, Fergal O'Byrne, has been a campaigner and community worker for many years and knows how the pernicious...

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: ——then that is the policy that will haunt this Government.

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Government now needs to be held accountable.

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: This Minister has decided that he will not listen to the views of the people of Meath. He thinks he knows best, but he will get his answer this time around. The people of Meath will not be found wanting when they pass judgement——

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: ——on a Minister who does not even want to listen to elected representatives, not to mind the people of his own county. Will he listen to the people of Meath when they speak? He will have no choice in the matter, whether he likes it or not. He will have to realise that places like Navan had an industrial base and employment which did not require people to leave their homes at the crack of...

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: They will now be told that if they want to get to Dublin, they will have to do away with much of their archaeological heritage at Tara and Skryne.

Issue of Writ: Meath By-election. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Minister and the Government need to realise that there are much better ways of local planning and local employment. The rail corridor was closed down by Fianna Fáil many years ago. Now is the time of reckoning. This Government will have to pay the price for neglecting the people of County Meath.

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about his prodigal Minister, sitting beside him, the Minister for Transport, particularly in the context of the EU Commission report today about Irish women being at greatest risk of poverty in the European Union compared to other member states. It is important to examine how we use public money. Has the Taoiseach anything to say with regard to the loss of public...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: My question is all about one topic, public money. The Ceann Comhairle knows well that asking about the Minister who oversees that spending is asking on one topic. How can the Taoiseach say that the Minister is exonerated when Mr. Dermot Quigley's report states there is no comprehensive inventory of work done under the PR contract in question, that monitoring and recording of the work done was...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: It is about the outcome of the Quigley report and what the Taoiseach intends to do?

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach mentioned the Standards in Public Office Commission. I am not surprised it found no prima facie case, given that the Quigley report was quite rushed in the sense that the Taoiseach asked for it to be back on his desk before the Dáil reconvened. The Standards in Public Office Commission had a long debate on the issue. I imagine the members did not all agree on the position, but...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: ——to investigate the merits or otherwise of an appointment? Would it not be better for him to concentrate on the Standards in Public Office Commission putting in place regulations and criteria that would ensure it would know what it had to do and could do its job?

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Many people would be interested in the Charities Bill finally seeing the light of day after many years. I will not talk about the Minister, Deputy Cullen, again, but fundraising needs to be put in proper order.

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Charities Bill has been on the list for years and it still has not seen the light of day.

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: We do not have a date. I am asking on the Order of Business if a date can be given.

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: That is.