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Written Answers — CLÁR Programme: CLÁR Programme (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 391: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if it is intended to reconstitute the CLÁR programme with a view to identifying the way strategic support could be realigned to respond more rapidly to emerging social or economic problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41217/08]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 393: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if it is intended to expand, revise or reconfigure the RAPID programme with particular reference to increased demands arising from changed economic and social circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41220/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 396: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the sources of funding available to his Department in each of the past five years excluding that of the Dormant Accounts Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41223/08]

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 397: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding made available to the Dormant Accounts Fund in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41224/08]

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 398: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding available to his Department from the Dormant Accounts Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41225/08]

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 399: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the disbursement from the Dormant Accounts Fund in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41226/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 432: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when full mortgage support will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41311/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 433: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an appeal application will be reviewed in relation to an application for social welfare payment in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41314/08]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 474: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of planning applications received under the strategic infrastructural deficient category since the activation of the relevant legislation; the number referred to the local authorities for decision; the outcome of the decision in such cases; the number decided by An Bord Pleanála with and without...

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 589: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when payment will issue in the case of educational tuition sessions undertaken in July 2008 by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40892/08]

Gangland Crime: Motion (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Gangland Crime: Motion (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Charlie Flanagan, for bringing this issue before the House. It is timely that we discuss the matter. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that crime is a growth industry in the country at present. It is prospering all the time. It is becoming more beneficial to be a member of a crime gang than any other industry. The procedures we have to tackle...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: That is a bit harsh.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Apropos of the relocation of jobs from Celbridge in County Kildare as raised by Deputy Stagg earlier, to another more cost-conscious EU country, is it intended to have a debate on any of the proposed Bills before the House? It would allow the House to zoom in on the whole question——

Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: I will tell you in a second, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: The House could debate and Members could contribute to the increasingly prevalent problem of relocation to more cost——

Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: ——conscious economies. Three Bills are listed, including the employment agency regulation Bill and the industrial development Bill, which is a possibility. It would give the Tánaiste an opportunity to outline her plans for the industrial sector in the future and the retention of the maximum number of jobs.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Yes. The other is one with which the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will empathise. The Fine Gael leader, Deputy Kenny, the Labour leader, Deputy Gilmore, and the relevant spokespersons from both parties have repeatedly raised in the House the obvious breakdown in the rule of law, whereby criminals are going free.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: I do not want to go through the entire list of Bills here.