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Order of Business (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I concur with Deputy Gilmore. This legislation should have been dealt with years ago, saving a large amount of grief, money, sickness and problems that will impact on life, health and business. The legislation needs the time to be dealt with in detail. Unless we get this Bill right, what is happening in Galway will happen elsewhere. The population pressure on the east coast makes the...

Order of Business (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: We do not want to be wasting time.

Order of Business (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I want the Government's assurance that the resources will be given for the Bill's provisions to be put into effect.

Order of Business (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: This is discrimination against smaller parties.

Order of Business (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I am sick of reading Standing Order 26.

Order of Business (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: What have we done to deserve this discrimination?

Order of Business (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: We cannot be blamed for that.

Inter-faith Dialogue. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his dialogue with churches, faith communities and non-confessional bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12573/07]

Inter-faith Dialogue. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: When the Taoiseach was speaking at Dublin Castle last February, his comments on aggressive secularism gave rise to the following observation from journalist, John Waters, of which Edmund Burke would have been proud. I would be interested to hear the Taoiseach's views on this interpretation: "As we observe our society plunging into the secular paradise promised by the liberal ideologues who...

Inter-faith Dialogue. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Both denominations, it is not one denomination.

Inter-faith Dialogue. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I want to be clear. The suggestion from the Taoiseach's reply is that the Church of Ireland ethos was the reason for raising the issue. I have spoken to the people in charge at Tallaght Hospital and they are clear that the ethos of any one denomination is not in question. Rather, it is the ethos of respecting each parent and background without fear or favour. Is that the Taoiseach's...

Inter-faith Dialogue. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Which is multi-denominational in its understanding.

Inter-faith Dialogue. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: The charter said Tallaght.

Telecommunications Data. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when he last received a report from the complaints referee appointed under section 9 of the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunication Messages (Regulation) Act 1993; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14122/07]

Telecommunications Data. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I have listened with interest to what the Taoiseach had to say. The question certainly raises the old maxim about life imitating art, given the film, "The Lives of Others" about east Germany that is currently being shown in cinemas. It begs a question that the Taoiseach is in the best position to answer. Given the think tank report entitled, Power to the People, does he accept that it is...

Telecommunications Data. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach as Head of Government has responsibility for the confidence of the public in the authorities.

Telecommunications Data. (25 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I am simply quoting from that report, which is relevant to the question we are debating. It says that people have confidence in the Garda, but not in the complaints procedure. Will the Taoiseach accept that work needs to be done here? We will not continue to have public confidence in the law enforcement agencies unless there is a clear explanation as regards the extraordinary amount of...

Written Answers — An Teanga Ghaeilge: An Teanga Ghaeilge (24 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Question 70: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfoilseoidh sé láithreach an Staidéar Teangeolaíochta Gaeltachta. [14987/07]

Written Answers — An Teanga Ghaeilge: An Teanga Ghaeilge (24 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Question 82: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cé na coinníollacha atá ann chun Gaeltacht agus Breac-Ghaeltacht a aithint. [14988/07]

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (24 Apr 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Question 671: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Iarnród Éireann charges for the use of disabled parking spaces in its car parks; if disabled employees of Iarnród Éireann have to pay for parking; if this is departmental policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15272/07]