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National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: The low levels of female participation in sport are such that there must contain positive discrimination in Government policy towards women for a number of years to ensure greater participation. Women and young girls must be encouraged and facilities provided for them. I disagree with the Minister on one issue. In many instances, females have to share dressing rooms with males and some do not...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, to delete lines 16 to 19 and substitute the following: "(3) Of the members of the Council, no fewer than 6 of their number shall be men and no fewer than 6 of their number shall be women.". It is important that gender balance on State boards is enshrined in legislation. When I was a Minister of State, I was responsible for Bord na gCon and there were three...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: Why include such a stipulation in the Arts Act 2003 and not in this Bill? I am sure the Minister had no problem ensuring gender balance on the Arts Council, to which he appointed six women. Saying that it might at times be difficult to find six suitable women is tantamount to saying that they do not exist, but they certainly do, and they are willing to participate and accept responsibility if...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: Before I press this matter to a vote, I express my disappointment that the Minister did not accept this very reasonable proposal. He acknowledged there is a precedent for it. At the risk of being repetitive, it is very important that women's participation in sport be emphasised continually. All surveys have shown that there is a great drop-off in female participation at post-primary school...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: Are we dealing with amendments Nos. 3 and 4 together?

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: I support amendment No. 4, tabled by Deputy Wall. There is a deficit in politics in ministerial responsibility and that of various Government agencies to this House. It is probably one of the most frustrating aspects of politics to table a question on tourism, the arts or, perhaps in the future, the campus only for the Minister to say it is not his responsibility. It represents a democratic...

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (14 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, line 9, after "generally" to insert ", with special emphasis on female participation". Since the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs published its report on women and sport, for which I was rapporteur, very little progress has been made with regard to the participation of women in sport, certainly not to the extent...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (13 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: Question 66: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the introduction of resource recovery units as part of the waste management policy of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22542/06]

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: It has absolutely nothing to do with the Dalton report.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: That is not the case.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: They did not even refer to the Bill.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: If it was, that was the issue.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: I thank all Members who contributed to the debate on the Bill. As I stated at the outset, it afforded us a three-hour opportunity to discuss the greyhound industry. Unfortunately, the Government side took a negative approach to what I am trying to do. Apart from the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Power, the majority of them were on message, came with prepared scripts and all made similar...

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: I also find that when people are under political pressure, as the Minister was on one occasion at a meeting of Kerry County Council, they like to refer to an incident that happened in Cork for which I do not believe I was at fault. They like to throw that at me at certain times, but I am sure the Acting Chairman will agree that whatever I, as a Kerryman, did on the football field was...

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: ——and it is doing no good for our democracy.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: The Minister said last night——

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: ——that the introduction of this Private Members' Bill can only damage the process of ensuring that all the parties to the Dalton inquiry receive due process. The Government should note that the process has been damaged already with the leaking of the report to a number of our national newspapers and the subsequent publication of the conclusions and recommendations put forward by Mr....

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: The outcome is known. The Minister announced it. Its findings have been published all over the place.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: The outcome is known. There will be no outcome. It has been all over the newspapers. Members know that.

Greyhound Industry (Doping Regulation) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Jun 2006)

Jimmy Deenihan: If I did not introduce the Bill now I would not be able to so do until November or December.