Results 4,161-4,180 of 4,571 for speaker:Trevor Sargent

Order of Business. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: For years.

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I was glad to hear the Taoiseach recognise in his contribution the difference between a stabbing and a robbery and state that a physical assault is worse in terms of a "moral league", if one can call it that. However, did he really mean to refer to the bank robbery as showing the problem with the peace process in sharp relief, a statement which surprised me? Does he agree that the punishment...

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I asked a question about conflict resolution.

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent developments in the Northern Ireland peace process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34611/04]

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 30: To ask the Taoiseach if he will elaborate on media reports that he has encouraged the Independent Monitoring Commission not to recommend penalties against Sinn Féin in its report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3562/05]

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (10 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 22: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); if she will review the procedures to prevent this traumatic situation being repeated in other circumstances; and if she will investigate whether action needs to be taken against those responsible for denying this person access to their child when the infant was...

Written Answers — Environmental Pollution: Environmental Pollution (10 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will launch a public information campaign on the issue of the indoor environment and indoor pollution and the need to keep houses well ventilated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4175/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide tax relief to parents on payment of crèche fees in cases in which one child alone can cost €953.33 per month for crèche fees and parents are being forced out of the workforce as a result, particularly if they have a second child. [4366/05]

Written Answers — Litter Pollution: Litter Pollution (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 120: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to improve the collection and recycling of plastic in view of the large amount of plastic litter which is to be found in ditches around fields in which silage bale wrap has been used. [1938/05]

Written Answers — Development Levies: Development Levies (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Question 147: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the burden on growers resulting from development levies on plastic poly-tunnels which apply in some counties but not, for example, in County Kildare. [1941/05]

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis labhairt ar an bpróiseás. Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis na TeachtaíÓ Caoláin, Connolly, Finian McGrath, Harkin agus Joe Higgins.

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: We have heard a number of views during this debate, all of which have been broadly supportive of the motion before the House. Several speakers referred to the need to support a party's electoral mandate, which strikes me as a fundamental issue. The Green Party thought the issue was dealt with at the time of the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement, which it supported wholeheartedly. My...

Order of Business. (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Publication of the electoral (amendment) (no. 2) Bill is expected in this session. Given that there are court proceedings on this matter has the date of publication been revised or will it be on the schedule for this session? The energy (miscellaneous provisions) Bill will give the Minister power to give general policy directions to the Commission for Energy Regulation. Will the remit of the...

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Will the Taoiseach favour their applications?

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: My question relates to the likely agenda for the next meeting with the social partners. It is in order to ask whether the Carlow sugar factory and the funding of the Community Workers Co-operative will be on that agenda. These are issues which are pertinent to the social partnership process. A bugbear we have regularly raised in this House is the non-delivery of the promised 100,000...

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I understood it was.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: I take it the issue is not on the agenda.

Order of Business. (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: The Finance Bill is a considerable body of work. It should not be curtailed in this fashion, in fairness to those who prepared it and considering the needs it is supposed to address. I asked earlier that several issues, such as the biofuels sector, be given far more consideration. I hope a more extensive debate will help the Government to introduce more informed and relevant amendments on...

Leaders' Questions. (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Will the Taoiseach explain why the Government, and he as Taoiseach, is refusing to grasp the opportunity to save and create jobs in Carlow and other places around the country affected by the closure of the Carlow sugar factory? Why is he refusing to realise the potential of the biofuels sector? Does he understand why so many people such as farmers and economists are quite baffled at the...

Leaders' Questions. (9 Feb 2005)

Trevor Sargent: Nothing happened.