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Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: First, I want to commend Deputy Catherine Murphy, as everyone has done - and not only for the sake of doing so but because it is deserved - on the brilliant work she has put into this Bill, which I hope is recognised. I decided to Google the level of interest in this debate and check it out on Twitter and found that it is being ignored. Why is it being ignored? It has been ignored by the...

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To be anti-development.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Smuggling (18 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of all of the resources, salaries, vehicles, fuel, and ancillary costs of the Revenue Commissioners, used in the efforts to prevent, counter and fight the importation and sale of illegal cigarettes for the year 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54484/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (18 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of all of the resources, salaries, vehicles, fuel, ancillary costs of the gardaí used in the efforts to prevent, counter and fight the importation and sale of illegal cigarettes for the year 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54483/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: The Minister said herself that all the evidence shows good outcomes. Apparently, the Government cannot afford to do something now that will save us money and make money down the line. I cannot understand how the Government can continue with policies like that. It happens in so many areas that a decision is made not to do something now that the evidence clearly shows would save money in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: Not proceeding now is not saving the Government any money. Advocating the idea that we do not have the resources to ramp up whatever training needs to be provided results in a waste of money in other areas. There are children in my area who, because of circumstances at home, must go to school a little earlier than they would otherwise go. They are causing a problem because they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is determined to bring in a second preschool year; if so, the date on which it will happen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54043/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: My question is to ask about the promised second preschool year and whether the Minister is going to go ahead with it. The Minister’s reference to the troika now being gone is interesting. Earlier this year I understood that an announcement was due on the initiative, and the reason it did not happen is that the scandal broke on television and the Minister pulled back on it, but now...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions No. 263 of 5 November 2013, and No. 63 of 6 November 2013, his views on whether his responses relating to serious issues in school transport were appropriate and not in any way written to dissuade Members of Dáil Éireann from asking questions about school transport; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 356. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if companies (details supplied) drilling in the County Leitrim area completed geophysical, geochemical and or topographical analysis as part of their work programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54019/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 357. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if companies (details supplied) in the Leitrim area, complete geophysical and or geochemical and or topographical analysis as part of their work programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54063/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 372. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the Leitrim area, if companies (details supplied) take samples of rocks and previous cuttings to test for the presence of petroleum, gas, as part of their work programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54429/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 406. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details on the finances that were made available to implement Local Agenda 21; where those finances came from; the results achieved with this finance; the legislation enacted to implement Local Agenda 21; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54095/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Remit (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 437. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if for any reason information comes to the attention of the Garda Commissioner or to him, of alleged corruption and either party fails to act, is this a dereliction of duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54013/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Identification Scheme (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the statutory authority under which equine breeders being asked to pay for the costs associated with the identification and registration of equines for matters such as the marking and chipping of foals carried out by veterinary surgeons approved for the purpose and the issuing of identity documents by issuing bodies approved for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to the severity of the eligibility cutbacks to the single farm payments on the most marginal small farmers in the disadvantaged areas, that many now will be forced to cease farming and join the dole queues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54422/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Proposed Legislation (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 523. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects the Child and Family Agency Bill 2013 to be completed; and how soon thereafter will the agency be set up; the level of funding with which she expects to start the agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54193/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 577. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the extensive grounds of St. Bridget’s Hospital that have been open and available to the people of Creagh for generations and now that the hospital has by and large ceased to function as an institution of psychiatric care, that the grounds of the hospital have grown in importance for the people of Creagh and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 578. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that any change of use at St. Bridget's Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway that may be planned by the Health Service Executive will be subject to all due notification and notice as required by law and that a proper programme of consultation will be entered into with the local community before any and all such plans are finalised and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (17 Dec 2013)

Luke Flanagan: 580. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the Health Service Executive has for the grounds of St Bridget’s Hospital in Ballinasloe, County Galway which is situated in the parish of Creagh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53970/13]