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Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: People no longer feel safe in their homes.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: Under this Government, people do not feel safe in their homes.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: I welcome the Minister and thank him for finally taking this debate which I have continually requested. I feel as if I have run a marathon and I am on my last gasp. The finishing post is either just ahead or an illusion. It has been a long road but I hope we are about to reach a conclusion to the ongoing electoral fiasco. The register of electors is undoubtedly in a mess and no amount of...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: As already stated, the authorities in Northern Ireland use the equivalent of PPS numbers to compile their electoral register. Fine Gael has been calling for the introduction of such a system here but the Government has failed to listen. This raises serious questions about the Government's actual commitment to rectifying the debacle relating to the electoral system. The Minister stated that...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: The Minister says the local authorities are awash with money but I have been knocking on doors on a daily basis and I have witnessed the road conditions in rural Ireland where I drive over pothole after pothole. It is undeniable that the electoral register is a mess and it is of the Minister's making. I take exception to his statement that the local authorities are awash with money.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: I wish he would visit south County Longford and County Westmeath to witness at first hand the conditions of the roads, which have been on the roads programme for the past four or five years, but he has failed to deliver sufficient funding to upgrade them. When I was canvassing in these areas during the past few weekends, I told my constituents I would highlight the issue in the House at the...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: He would not listen to Government backbenchers.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: The Government did that when introducing e-voting machines.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: The local authorities are not given the resources.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: I did not make that suggestion.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: By whom?

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: That is because of the increase in crime rates under the Government's watch.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: A child born this morning will have a PPS number.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: The Government is lucky that it is not in control of the United States ofAmerica.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: On a point of order, I call a quorum. There are empty desks on the other side.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: Each year, more than 6,000 people — approximately 20 per day — die as a result of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Will the Acting Leader request the Minister for Health and Children, who is a member of his party, to come before the House to debate the possibility of providing defibrillators in every parish and community centre throughout the country? At a time when the country is awash...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: The comely maidens.

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: I welcome the Minister of State, who is present to debate the important issue of stamp duty. I endorse the points made by Senators John Paul Phelan and Brian Hayes. In a typical Irish dance, the Tánaiste, Deputy Michael McDowell, has been advancing and withdrawing in respect of the issue of stamp duty for the past couple of months because he is apparently unsure of the political...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: What Government would, in a "dog in the manger" way, insist that hard pressed couples, struggling to get a foot on the property ladder, pay a tax that forces them to face lifelong repayments, yet tell them it is unnecessary and unwanted? What justice is that? The Government is ripping us off and it is interfering with the efficient conduct of the property market. Stamp duty is widely...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

James Bannon: The Government could at least fulfil its promises.