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Written Answers — Housing Policy: Housing Policy (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 355: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of applicants for shared ownership of annuity loan in the past 12 months; the number approved; the number drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37048/06]

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 356: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received communication from Kildare County Council or local interests relating to the need to carry out drainage or cleaning works at the Slate River, Allenwood, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37050/06]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 357: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the need to provide extra funding to Kildare County Council in order to undertake remedial works on main, county and regional roads that have suffered as a result of heavy traffic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37051/06]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 358: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the road and bridge realignment at Bond Bridge, Maynooth, County Kildare will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37052/06]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 361: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons currently on the various local authority housing waiting lists; when he expects this demand to be met in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37055/06]

Written Answers — Air Pollution: Air Pollution (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 362: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has studied data from the various air pollution monitoring locations throughout the country; the action or actions he proposes to take to address the most prominent features of the information; the pollutants most seriously in need of attention; his plans to address the issue; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Question 363: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number and location of sewerage schemes currently awaiting approval or funding in his Department; if lack of progress in each or any case is likely to lead to pollution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37058/06]

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: At least we are not facing backwards.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: They will not.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: We do not want high prices.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: The Government raided the ESB.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: It grabbed €70 million.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: If the Minister of State has a spare hour, I will tell him about our ideas.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: If the Government keeps coping the way it is at present, there will be trouble.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I thank all the Members who contributed to this debate. I tabled this motion to try to get answers to two vital questions. Was the Government awake to what was happening on the international markets?

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: Was the Government prepared to pass on the benefits of what was happening on the international markets to consumers?

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: That is the interesting part of it. All the evidence suggests that the Government is impervious to the needs of consumers, including householders, factory owners and shopkeepers. Every house, factory and office in this country is affected by energy prices in one way or another. Employment is affected by energy prices. Even though many jobs have been lost from this country to more...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: It can do nothing about it. It does not want to do anything about it because it suits the Government to have high energy prices.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: I will give the House an idea of how the Government gains. In the last couple of years, the Government has claimed to be very concerned about everybody.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2006)

Bernard Durkan: It says it is people-friendly and concerned about the poor. It claims to be concerned about investment in industry, but I will tell the House what it has done to the ESB. In 2002, it took €39.7 million from the ESB and stuck it in its pocket. It hammered the ESB with that particular burden.