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Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 378: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the detection rate for the various categories of serious crime in Counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29337/06]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 510: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reducing or eliminating excise duty from all motor fuels produced from renewable energy crops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29335/06]

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 955: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he proposes to enter into discussions with Enterprise Ireland with a view to the creation of alternative jobs to replace the 146 jobs lost in the restructuring plans of a company (details supplied), and in particular the 64 redundancies announced in the small community of Lough Egish and Carrickmacross, County...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 1026: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will arrange for the winter free fuel allowance to be made available to recipients who require it in a lump sum rather than weekly, to enable them to pay upfront for oil or gas central heating payments which have increased substantially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29338/06]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 1070: To ask the Minister for Transport if legislation will be introduced to make hazard warning lights mandatory at road work sites to ensure motorists' safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29334/06]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 1109: To ask the Minister for Transport if he proposes to amend the penalty points system to address the serious anomaly whereby dangerous driving does not attract any penalty points in contrast to relatively less serious offences such as marginally exceeding the speed limit which is penalised with points; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29339/06]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 1192: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she proposes to extend the farm plastics collection pilot scheme to cover the entire country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29329/06]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 1193: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the plans she has to introduce start-up grants for farmers entering the biofuel crops market; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29330/06]

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 1337: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the resources and facilities will be provided to schools to ensure a minimum of two and a half hours physical education in first and second level schools in view of the heart disease rate of 54 per thousand population, exactly twice the European average of 27 per 1000 population; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

National Oil Reserves Agency Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I also welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this Bill, which gathers together and updates the existing strands of legislation as regards our oil reserves. Growing oil costs and political instability in the Middle East make it increasingly urgent that alternative sources of energy must be explored. Every time there is a war in the Middle East, oil prices soar. That has...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (27 Sep 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the recently commissioned HSE report entitled Improving Safety and Achieving Better Standards, known as the Teamwork report, and the report on the death of Mr. Pat Joe Walsh encompassing the proposed future delivery of hospital services in the former North Eastern Health Board and the...

Remedial Works Grants. (6 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for agreeing to an impromptu meeting with a delegation last week. I want to discuss the remedial works scheme at Mullaghmatt estate in Monaghan town. There are 170 houses on the estate, half of which are in private ownership and the remainder in council ownership. The estate, which is more than 40 years old, is beginning to show its age and needs a face lift. The...

Vote 40 — Health Service Executive (Supplementary). (6 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. The nursing home charges fiasco has turned into a major issue but it would have been a non-issue if there had been some honesty in high places. That is one of the tragedies of the whole process because there were people who knew that what was happening was a con or a deceit. While people do not mind paying for a bed, they do not like being...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (6 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the lending restrictions imposed on credit unions in the Credit Union Act 1997, which restrict lending to 20% of the unions' loan book over five years and 10% over ten years; the consequent stifling of the credit unions' ongoing growth and development, whereby their limited lending...

Building Societies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The import of this Bill is that legislation will be updated so building societies will be enabled to demutualise and convert into companies while protecting the development of mutual societies. However, the Irish Nationwide Building Society will be the most immediately affected by the enactment of the Bill. As soon as the Bill clears the Oireachtas, the way will be paved for the...

Government Record: Motion (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: We have given three hours debate to an unlikely event. I do not detect any real desire for a summer election. If we held a straw poll on the Government side of the House, or on the Opposition side of the House, it would show that nobody wants a summer election. This call for a summer election is akin to whistling past the graveyard. It is accepted that the most likely date for an election is...

National Wage Agreement: Statements. (5 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: We have had social partnership for over two decades and I have advocated it for all those years. I am delighted we have concluded a social partnership agreement, entitled Toward 2016, which will help us on our way forward. I generally agree with the concept of social partnership in that it allows us to plan for the long-term and permits companies to know their costs well in advance. A number...

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about a report which was promised last December. We were assured it would be put into the public domain but it has been leaked because some people were given a view of it. I ask that the Walsh family be apprised of the contents of the report before further leaks occur.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The issue was leaked into the public domain by those I have mentioned.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Will the Walsh family be briefed?