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Farm Waste Management Scheme: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: We were told in regard to the nitrates directive that these dates cannot be extended. Curiously, if one crosses the Border into Northern Ireland, the extension date there has been put back to 31 December for the spreading of slurry and farmyard manure. The Minister should not tell us it cannot be done. He should at least be honest and tell us he will not do it because he chooses not to and...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: There is an overall assumption in the budget that the worst of the downturn has become apparent and that there will be an upturn in a year or two. The problem is that while there may be an improvement, it cannot be assumed that the conditions of recent years will return. However, the Government in its budget is content that reducing the deficit a little and pencilling in a 7% deficit for...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Most likely. If this is not the case, next year's budget will have to be much harder than the current year's. While I do not have much time, I wish to address several issues. The 1% employment levy can only be described as the most inequitable in the history of the State. We are taxing students earning a few euro to try to get through college and pensioners trying to boost existing...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (14 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if grant aid is available from her Department for outdoor play areas for an established child care facility (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34618/08]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (9 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will establish an umbrella group to deal with individual or small group applications for overseas aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34072/08]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (9 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the situation in Tibet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34075/08]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (7 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to introduce, in budget 2009, measures to assist bus operators who face severe financial reductions when the rebate of mineral oil tax on hydrocarbon heavy oil used in the provision of certain bus services ceases on 31 October 2008 in view of the fact that some services they supply, for example school transport, have little financial...

Written Answers — Fathers' Rights: Fathers' Rights (2 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has commissioned research on the issue of fathers' rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32807/08]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for legislative initiatives in the area of fathers' rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32808/08]

Anti-Social Behaviour. (2 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has allocated specific funding to bolster the resources of local authorities in dealing with anti-social behaviour orders in view of the fact that they are dealing with private estates as well as local authority estates where such behaviour is a problem; and the measures he will implement, outside of the...

Anti-Social Behaviour. (2 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: I thank the Minister but he has not answered the question. My question was whether he had allocated specific funding to bolster the resources of local authorities in dealing with anti-social behaviour. The belief is that if we continue in the way we are going, there will be no difference. As he will have seen from the performance of Members on this side of the House in the past days, the...

Anti-Social Behaviour. (2 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: I itemised in my question the role of the joint policing committees because I did not want to discuss it. A cohesive campaign between local authority officials and the Garda Síochána, in conjunction with the joint policing committees, would be money very well spent. To put it in context, the population of my district has doubled in a decade. The population of my county has increased by...

Anti-Social Behaviour. (2 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: There are.

Garda Equipment. (2 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: I hope it will not be like PPARS.

Internet Gambling. (2 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Although the Minister has published a report, when will he tackle Internet gambling? Is the Minister aware of the extent of Internet gambling? As I am a bit younger than the Minister, I know that the number of young men participating in Internet gambling is astonishing. It is being carried out in the privacy of homes and even work. The Minister needs to deal with it. In 2006 the UK...

Internet Gambling. (2 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: It is still Deputy Rabbitte's fault.

Energy Poverty: Motion (1 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: This Private Members' motion is rather timely as we face into the winter. When one sticks one's head outside the window, one can see why fuel poverty levels are increasing. I wish to focus on two issues, the first of which is the price of fuel. Over the summer, my attention was drawn to the difference between the speed at which the price of fuel is increased when the price of crude oil...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: I will try to be as brief as possible. The Minister's speech yesterday was based exclusively on liquidity. I am concerned with several economists with whom I have been speaking in the past few hours, that we are trying to ignore the other major aspect of this, namely, solvency. While the Wall Street problems are affecting liquidity, the Wall Street issue has nothing to do with the solvency...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (30 Sep 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will licence nursing agencies or home help providers in order to promote and encourage patient safety; her plans to licence private health care facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32279/08]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (30 Sep 2008)

Michael D'Arcy: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to ease the backlog that has developed in the National Treatment Purchase Fund which has led to more than 2,000 patients waiting for more than a year for surgery and several hundred more waiting up to two years under the scheme. [31906/08]