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Written Answers — Garda Vetting Procedures: Garda Vetting Procedures (6 Dec 2005)

Tom Hayes: Question 361: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when clearance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [37533/05]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Dec 2005)

Tom Hayes: Question 413: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when school transport will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary with special needs; and when their foster mother will be reimbursed for the cost of transporting this person to Kilkenny each school day since they were fostered in June 2005. [37588/05]

Sugar Industry Reform. (6 Dec 2005)

Tom Hayes: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving us the opportunity of discussing this important item. For many people, it is not easy to make a living from farming in the Ireland of 2005. The price of beef hovers at a dangerously low level, so much so that many farmers barely break even when selling beef. The latest development in Irish farming is the eradication of the Irish sugar beet industry...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 Dec 2005)

Tom Hayes: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has made changes to the habitual residency condition; if he will outline the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37284/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (1 Dec 2005)

Tom Hayes: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has appealed a decision by her Department not to allow home tuition for their child. [37371/05]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (1 Dec 2005)

Tom Hayes: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when approval will be granted for a three classroom extension to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [37372/05]

Local Authority Housing. (1 Dec 2005)

Tom Hayes: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons who were receiving rent supplement for more than 18 months and have subsequently been housed under the rental accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37283/05]

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Tom Hayes: In view of the fact that 3,500 farmers and 1,500 workers are on the verge of losing their jobs in the sugar beet industry, can time be provided to discuss this important matter? This involves more than 5,000 people in total. Many years ago legislation was enacted to set up the sugar company. It brought great prosperity to many towns throughout the country. The Minister for Agriculture and...

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Tom Hayes: I will still raise it again.

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: In view of the fact that 3,500 farming families and 1,500 people involved in the beet industry are about to lose their jobs——

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: Yes. Legislation was introduced to this House some 80 years ago to set up the sugar factories.

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: Will legislation be introduced, given that the Government and the Minister for Agriculture and Food have caved in and destroyed a whole industry——

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: With 5,000 people involved in this industry——

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: This is the first time since the establishment of this State——

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: ——that a Government has presided over——

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: The Government has——

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: ——presided over dissolving an entire sector.

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: I want to know——

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: ——whether time can be set aside. This issue should be discussed.

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Tom Hayes: I take it the Chair will accommodate me later.