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Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (7 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 226: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will reply to correspondence from this Deputy dated 12 May 2010 regarding an application for Garda clearance from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30623/10]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (7 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform that status of an application for permanent residency in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30624/10]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (7 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the options available to a person (details supplied) who obtained residency based on their marriage to an EU national, but they are now separated, and whose recent application for residency renewal was refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30625/10]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (7 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a certificate of naturalisation in view of the fact that they secured permission to remain in October 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30626/10]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (7 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 230: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform in view of the administrative rules governing the visas issued to domestic workers employed in embassies/consular/diplomatic households, the name of this specific type of visa; the terms and conditions of this visa and the criteria for issuing them; if there is a difference between the type of visa issued to household workers...

Written Answers — Garda Disciplinary Proceedings: Garda Disciplinary Proceedings (7 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to correspondence between persons (details supplied) and the Assistant Garda Commissioner for the western region, regarding complaints about defects, inadequacies and incompetence in the conduct of Garda Síochána disciplinary proceedings against a member arising from the Garda investigation; if he...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (7 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 414: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department's secondary salary section is not paying out the bike grant to secondary school teachers until 2011; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that the reason given is that there are too many secondary teachers and that applications will only be...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: At least we did not bankrupt the country.

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he proposes to initiate or support efforts to declare the EU fishing agreement, which impinges on issues of self-determination for the Saharawi people, as null and void. [29661/10]

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will offer direct humanitarian assistance to the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf and the other occupied territories. [29662/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that speech therapy services for under five year olds at a facility (details supplied) has been withdrawn due to the recruitment embargo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29322/10]

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin was invited by a senior Garda officer (details further supplied) to view a relevant document in a communication dated 16 March 2010 and then on 17 June 2010 the same senior officer denied ever having extended such an invitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: No one can dispute the analysis set out by Deputy Ó Snodaigh. He put his finger on it when he spoke about the capacity of these products to re-invent themselves. At the same time, I have sympathy with the Minister in saying we do not want to create a new regulatory body unnecessarily which may duplicate an existing one. However, the treatment of this subject by the Minister for Health and...

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I am a bit surprised the Minister did not ask the Attorney General to supply him with a copy of it.

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister did not only hear about it. I told him about it and quoted from it on Second Stage. The Minister should not shake his head on this. I know he believes he has never been wrong about anything but I did raise this on Second Stage. I would have thought it would have been essential for him to look at it to see how those representing the head shops view the legislation. Deputy Ó...

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not always sure what one does with these products, but apparently extraordinary things can be done with them. I am told that Deputy Shatter's proposed inclusion of "applied to the body of any person" and the reference to "ingested" are appropriate, so I am pleased to support the amendments. This is the definitions sections and the definition of "psychoactive substance" is central to...

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Where is consumption spelled out in section 3?

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister said it was section 3.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: A couple of weeks ago I asked the Taoiseach if he would schedule the Multi-Unit Developments Bill given the urgency surrounding the matter. We are not scheduled to sit on Friday. The Minister is briefing the Taoiseach to the effect that Second Stage has started in the House and we could conclude it on Friday. Nobody on this side of the House is going to vote against the principle of the...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I find it hard to hear the Taoiseach. Is he saving his energy for later this evening?