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Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: He shares that ideological territory with a number of Cabinet colleagues.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: How a person with such an agenda can ever be expected to deliver on social and affordable housing, the implementation of an environment-first waste management policy and empowering people through a reformed and inclusive system of local government is beyond comprehension? I specifically wish to address the Minister's intentional mishandling of housing, waste management and local government. I...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: That so much progress has been made by residents in those areas through developing their communities is no credit to this or any other Government but a credit to those communities' endurance, will-power and resilience. We, as a society, need to build on what has been done by these communities which have pulled themselves out of the gutter, where successive Governments had thrown them, and...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The Minister is not preying on people's fears but playing on the backs of the large speculators and developers, which has us where we are now.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: If Deputy Cullen is not swiftly removed from his ministerial position, there will be a network of incinerators throughout this State pumping toxic ash into the environment.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The Minister has trampled over our local elected representatives in his drive to have waste management services privatised. The introduction of bin charges——

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: ——is a deliberate pretext to the privatisation of all waste services, which is well under way. Bin charges are an unjust——

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: ——double taxation which penalise the less well-off in society. Under the threat of dissolution, local authorities have been forced to bring in these charges, causing real hardships. Though waivers are available in some cases, when waste services are privatised, this provision will immediately be dropped. The Minister was recently quoted as saying he was not interested in more great...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: This is evident in his dismissal of public concerns of the risk to democracy from his moves on electronic voting and the removal of powers from local government. The Minister, Deputy Cullen, has used his term in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to demonstrate his disregard for democracy. His contempt for local government has been manifested on numerous...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following urgent issue: the threat made by the Tánaiste that the PDs will collapse the Government unless the break-up of CIE and the privatisation of transport services goes ahead, regardless of discussions with the unions.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The fact that this threat has undermined the social partnership process; the necessity for the Tánaiste to be relieved of her responsibilities for employment, as her unbridled Thatcherite right-wing rant to party zealots illustrate that she is——

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Mar 2004)

Arthur Morgan: ——unsuitable to have responsibility for workers' rights; the necessity for the Tánaiste to apologise to workers in CIE and Aer Rianta for proclaiming the destruction of their jobs as her number one political objective; and the need to debate the issue in this House.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the refusal to issue new work permits in certain occupational sectors applies to employees already working in those sectors; if she agrees that this policy effectively prevents these workers from changing employers; when this policy will be changed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 490: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if all polling stations in the elections to local government and the European Parliament on 11 June 2004 will be wheelchair accessible; if all polling stations will be fully accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5037/04]

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: The Bill represents yet another attempt by the Government to raise revenue through inequitable taxes. This is strange given that this right-wing Government and its leading ideologues pride themselves on low levels of taxation. While the Government imposes low levels of taxation, this applies only to the very wealthy and speculators while crippling ordinary working people and the lower paid...

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: What is the position in respect of legislation to empower one of the all-Ireland implementation bodies established in 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, namely, the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission? The commission requires primary legislation to facilitate its operation.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Is the legislation ready to proceed?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (17 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the necessity for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to abandon his plans for imposing incineration on the people of this State. Given that the Government is unwilling to take on board the damaging effects of incineration on health, will it consider the voice of...

Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (10 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress which has been made to date to achieve the target outlined in the National Anti-Poverty Strategy 2002 of eliminating long-term unemployment as soon as possible but no later than 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3763/04]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (10 Feb 2004)

Arthur Morgan: Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress which has been made in relation to the fundamental review of training and employment supports to focus on the needs of the most marginalised and disadvantaged groups to help them to progress to the open labour market which was promised in the programme for Government; her views on whether the...